CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS 5TH AUGUST 2018

WIRRAL
Burton Rspb
Cattle Egret Main Scrape
Ruff x4 Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Green Sandpiper Willow Pool
Wood Sandpiper Marsh Covert Hide
Whitethroat Birdcrop Field
Blackcap (F) Railway Bridge
Mediterranean Gull IMF
Spotted Redshank x2 IMF
Dunlin x1 IMF
Snipe x4 IMF
Avocet x2 IMF
Green Sandpiper Marsh Covert Hide
Raven Burton Point
Common Gulls x4 IMF

Hilbre
3 Arctic Skua (2 dark, 1 pale),Great Skua,2 Little Tern,Tree Pipit,Common Sandpiper,Greenshank,11 Whimbrel and 1,000 Sandwich Tern and 45 Swallow roosted overnight.


Meols
Greenshank by groyne.

Decca Pools
2 Marsh Harrier (fem).

CHESHIRE
Frodsham Marshes
Ruddy Shelduck-Still on estuary near sluice gates.

Marbury Country Park
Great White Egret and 2 Juvenile Garganey-Neumanns Flash.