CHESHIRE BIRD NEWS AND MEGAS

SUMMARY OF TODAYS BIRD NEWS

58 Pink-footed Geese,4000+ Shelduck,62 Pintail,Little Stint,Curlew Sandpiper, 400 Dunlin,1550 Curlew,5360 Redshank,300 Goldfinch on the marsh-Heswall Shore

Great Northern Diver on sea then flew north - New Brighton.

Curlew Sandpiper and a Little Stint - Hoylake Shore.

3 Spoonbill and a Ruff - Parkgate.

Garganey and 3 Cattle Egret - Burton Mere Wetlands.

100+Swallow flying low feeding near Irby Mill Pub this morning - Greasby/Irby.

Spotted Redshank-Pickerings Pasture

3 Curlew Sandpiper-N06 tank and another bird on the Weaver bend-Frodsham Marshes

Garganey-Eclipse drake-N0 3 bed-Woolston eyes

MEGA NEWS

WHITE TAILED LAPWING-Blacktoft Sands-East Yorkshire

ROSE BREASTED GROSBEAK-1st Winter male-Valyie-Unst-Shetland

RED NECKED STINT-Adult-Slaynes lane-Idle washes-Nottinghamshire

CHESHIRE BIRD NEWS AND MEGAS

SUMMARY OF TODAYS BIRD NEWS

12 Great White Egret-Hale and surrounding area

Great White Egret

(C)Dave Craven

Red Kite-Basford

Wilson's Phalarope on Boathouse Flashes,3 Spoonbill,Ruff,2 Marsh Harrier,17 Greenshank and 60 Pink-footed Geese flew inland - Parkgate

Curlew Sandpiper-From carpark-Pickerings pasture

3 Ruddy Shelduck-still east of A533 Bridge off Warth Marsh-Widnes

Kingfisher and a Water Rail on duck pond - Leasowe Lighthouse.

Little Stint at high tide - Hoylake Shore.

Curlew Sandpiper with 430 Redshank - West Kirby Marine Lake.

11 Brent Geese,Peregrine,Sparrowhawk and 4 Golden Plover this morning - Hilbre.

Garganey,3 Western Cattle Egrets and a 1st-winter drake Ruddy Shelduck-Burton RSPB

3 Curlew Sandpiper-N06 tank-Frodsham marshes

MEGA NEWS

BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS-Bempton Cliffs-East Yorkshire

WHITE TAILED LAPWING-Blacktoft Sands-East Yorkshire

CHESHIRE BIRD NEWS AND MEGAS

SUMMARY OF TODAYS BIRD NEWS

Wilson's Phalarope on border pool this morning then flew to main scrape and 2 spotted Redshank-Burton Mere Wetlands.

Wilson's Phalarope

(C)Steve Williams

Leach's Petrel along tideline at 12.15hrs-Meols Shore.

Ruff with 5,000+ Black-tailed Godwit-Caldy Wildfowl Collection.

3 Curlew Sandpiper-N06 Tank-Frodsham Marshes

Garganey-Eclipse drake-N0 3 bed-Woolston eyes

Little Stint-Little eye-Hilbre island

Little Stint

(C)Steve Williams

MEGA NEWS

BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS-Bempton Cliffs-East Yorkshire

WHITE TAILED LAPWING-Blacktoft Sands-East Yorkshire

CHESHIRE BIRD NEWS AND MEGAS

SUMMARY OF TODAYS BIRD NEWS

Wilson's Phalarope at Border Hide this morning,Spotted Crake on main scrape,3 Cattle Egret,Ruddy Shelduck and 13 Pink-footed Geese-Burton Mere Wetlands.

Wilson's Phalarope

28 Great White Egret (most seen flying from BMW roost at first light), also a Barn Owl-Burton Marsh.

4 Curlew Sandpiper-Heswall Shore.

Eurasian Spoonbill and Ruff-Parkgate

Garganey-Juvenile and 2 Juvenile Curlew Sandpiper-still on No 6 Tank-Frodsham Msrshes

Ruddy Shelduck-Two still east of A533 Bridge off Warth Marsh-Widnes

3 adult Yellow Legged Gulls-Sandbach Flashes

MEGA NEWS

WHITE TAILED LAPWING-Blacktoft Sands-East Yorkshire

CHESHIRE BIRD NEWS AND MEGAS

SUMMARY OF TODAYS BIRD NEWS

Whooper Swan-Spike Island-Widnes

Wilson's Phalarope,Spotted Redshank,2 Western Cattle Egret,Ruddy Shelduck and Little Stint - Burton Mere Wetlands.

Wilson's Phalarope

(C)Steve Williams

Western Cattle Egret

3 Spoonbill,15 Pintail,2 Ruff,Spotted Redshank and 10 Greenshank - Parkgate.

Curlew Sandpiper in wader roost on rocks before high tide - West Kirby Marine Lake.

Curlew Sandpiper-Pickerings Pasture

Garganey-Eclipse drake-N03 Bed-Woolston Eyes

2 Curlew Sandpiper and a Mediterranean Gull - Heswall Shore.

MEGA NEWS

WHITE TAILED LAPWING-Blacktoft Sands-East Yorkshire

WILSON'S PHALAROPE-BURTON RSPB-21st SEPTEMBER 2021

News broke this morning that Graham Jones (RSPB warden) at Burton had found a Wilson's phalarope on the main scrape. I made the fifteen-minute car journey to the site and was soon on this mega bird for Cheshire and Wirral.

WILSON'S PHALAROPE

(C)STEVE WILLIAMS

Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolour) is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering in inland salt lakes near the Andes in Argentina.

They are passage migrants through Central America around March/April and again during September/October.  The species is a rare vagrant to western Europe.

This was the twelve-year record for Cheshire and Wirral. These are the previous records:

CHESHIRE BIRD NEWS AND MEGAS

SUMMARY OF TODAYS BIRD NEWS

Little stint and Ruddy Shelduck-Burton RSPB

Curlew Sandpiper-Weaver bend-Frodsham marshes

3 Spoonbill,2 Water Rail,2 Ruff and 12 Greenshank - Parkgate.

3 Curlew Sandpiper in wader roost with c200 Turnstones on rocks before high tide - West Kirby Marine Lake.

Curlew Sandpiper

18 Brent Geese - Hilbre.

3 Curlew Sandpiper (juvs),5770 Shelduck,23 Pintail,320 Oystercatcher,3 Golden Plover,760 Dunlin,1695 Curlew,5100 Redshank,Mediterranean Gull (1st winter) before high tide - Heswall Shore.

5,700 Black-tailed Godwit - Caldy Wildfowl Collection.

Great White egret-Neumanns flash and 2 Hobbies over Ashtons flash-Northwich

MEGA NEWS

WHITE TAILED LAPWING-Blacktoft Sands-East Yorkshire

CHESHIRE BIRD NEWS AND MEGAS

SUMMARY OF TODAYS BIRD NEWS

Great White egret-Neumann's Flash-Northwich

Great White Egret,Yellow legged gull and 2 Pintail-Sandbach Flashes

4 Curlew Sandpiper on mud on rising tide, just south of West Kirby Marine Lake.

3 Spoonbill,Water Rail,3 Ruff and 12 Greenshank - Parkgate.

2 Cattle Egret,3 Garganey and a Little Stint - Burton Mere Wetlands.

Firecrest in garden - Hoylake sea-front.

A large wader roost included 5,000 Oystercatcher,also 6 Brent Geese and 2 Sandwich Tern - West Kirby Shore.

Great white egret and Yellow legged gull-Bosley reservoir

Great White Egret

(C)Steve Seal

MEGA NEWS

BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS-Bempton Cliffs-East Yorkshire

WHITE TAILED LAPWING-Blacktoft Sands-East Yorkshire

PHOTO OF THE WEEK 13th-19th SEPTEMBER 2021

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