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21 February 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 21ST FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Thurstaston Shore
Red Kite heading NE which flushed 3,000 Knot.
Burton RSPB

Whooper Swan x4 Field Behind D Barn
Avocet x4 Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Peregrine Fence Behind Wet Grassland
Nuthatch x2 Car Park
Kingfisher Willow Pool
Reed Bunting 
Willow Pool
Goldcrest By Woodland Mere
Water Rail Reedbed Screen
Snipe x4 Marsh Covert Hide
Stonechat Bird crop Field
Great Egret Burton Marsh From Point
Pink-Footed Geese X700+ As Above

Hilbre
6 Eider,177 Bar-tailed Godwit,2 Raven,235 Brent Geese plus several flocks of Pink-footed Geese totalling around 750.


Little Neston
2 Great White egrets,2 Ringtail Hen Harriers and 4 Short Eared owls.


CHESHIRE
Newchurch Common
Female Smew of unknown origin-In eastern bay of large pool north of track and 250 Brambling still around the area.


Hale
Water Pipit-On Hale Marsh viewable from the bridge on Town Lane.

Marbury Country Park
Bittern-TA Coward reedbed and 7 Hawfinch at old hall site.


Astbury Mere
2 Hawfinches in silver birches left of visitors car park.


Frodsham Marshes
2 Bewick's swans with 22 Whooper swans on Lordship marsh.

Sandbach Flashes
1st Winter Iceland gull,2 Juvenile Glaucous gulls and a Great white egret.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-Female alpestris,praticola or hoyti on the south basin; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

THAYER'S GULL- Still in Blackheath Down pig field east of road-walk c.1.5km east along bridleway and view fields to north-Tipdit-Hampshire.