CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS 18TH APRIL 2019

WIRRAL
Red Rocks
3 Ring Ouzel,Grasshopper Warbler,3 Tree Pipit,Whitethroat and a Whimbrel

Hilbre Island
Ring Ouzel,75+ Willow Warbler,Redstart,Grasshopper Warbler,Sedge Warbler,7 Blackcap and 2 Common Sandpiper.

Ness Gardens
Ring Ouzel-Between Ness Gardens and Burton in horse paddock.

Leasowe Lighthouse
12 Tree pipit,Pied Flycatcher,2 Yellow Wagtail,4 White Wagtail,2 Grasshopper Warbler,35 Wheatear,6 Redstart,5+ Ring Ouzel,3 Whinchat and 3 Whimbrel,7 Sandwich Tern,100+ Willow warbler,26 Blackcap,12 Sisken and 4 Redpoll

WHINCHAT

(C)AUSTIN MORLEY

Heswall
Cuckoo *first of spring*-Inland of Wirral Way near Dungeon Wood.

Heswall Fields NT
Lesser Whitethroat and 6+ Common Whitethroat in blackthorn.

Heswall Shore
13 Whimbrel-On rising tide.

Burton RSPB
Great Egrets x2 Burton Marsh From Point 
Pintail x4 IMF 
Garganey (M) IMF 
Little Ringed Plovers x2 IMF
Chiffchaff By Railway Bridge
Great Crested Grebes x2 Bridge Pool
Spotted Redshank x5 Marsh Covert Hide
Dunlin x10 Marsh Covert Hide
Sedge Warbler From Reedbed Screen
Reed Bunting By Reedbed Screen
Cetti's Warbler By Willow Pool
Blackcap x2 (M&F) By Willow Pool
Swallow x2 Over Reception Pool Mediterranean Gulls x16 Main Scrape
Avocets 120+ Main Scrape
Ruff x2 (M) Main Scrape
Cattle Egret x1 Field Left Of Bunker Entrance
White Wagtails x3 From Bunker Left Of Scrape
Nuthatch In Car Park

Caldy
Ring Ouzel-In newly seeded field below Stapledon Wood.

Raby
Ring Ouzel-In the field behind Hillyard Farm,visible from a gateway on the left just after leaving the speed limit zone on Raby mere road.

CHESHIRE
Winsford Flash
Little Gull-Bottom Flash

Pickerings Pasture
Garden Warbler-Singing by hide

Moore Nature Reserve
Female Pied Flycatcher

Marbury Country Park
Garden Warbler-Budworth Mere
4 Whimbrel and 8 Avocet-Neumann's Flash
Grasshopper Warbler-Witton Brook

WHIMBREL

(C)MALC CURTIN

Bosley-Private Wood
2 male Pied Flycatcher and male Redstart.

PIED FLYCATCHER

(C)STEVE SEAL

Tatton Mere
Drake Mandarin Duck