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22 February 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 22ND FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Burton RSPB
Great Egret x2 Burton Marsh From Point
Reed Bunting x6 Birdcrop Field
Fieldfare x15 Far End Boardwalk
Merlin Far End Woodland Mere
Kingfisher Willow Pool
Avocet x14 Main Scrape
Oystercatcher x2 Main Scrape
Peregrine Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Whooper Swan x4 Field Behind D Barn
Mediterranean Gull Main Scrape
Ruff x3 Marsh Covert Hide
Grey Partridge Bird crop Field 


Denhall Quay
3 Short Eared owls

CHESHIRE
Moore Nature Reserve
2 Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers.

Marbury Country Park-Hawfinch-12+ in arboretum and a Lesser Spotted woodpecker calling.

Moulton
Glaucous gull-adult flew over Niddries Court and towards Winsford Flash.

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

Poynton
Waxwing-One showing well between Vernon road/Dickens land junction.


Newchurch Common
Female Smew of unknown origin-In eastern bay of large pool north of track and 250 Brambling.


Wimbolds Trafford
Juvenile Kumlien's Gull at Gowy Landfill as viewed from footpath off Picton Lane;1st-winter Caspian Gull and Yellow Legged gull.


Sandbach Flashes
2 Great White egrets,1st Summer Glaucous gull and a Greater Scaup-Railway Flash
(C)ANDY GOODWIN

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
ITALIAN SPARROW-Possible (or hybrid sparrow sp.) in gardens on Wynards Road and Cadbury Gardens (present several days); park in car park off Hayes Lane or on B3178 at Oak Hill (c.SY067847)-East Budleigh-Devon.

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.