MEGA BIRD NEWS:2nd May 2026-Lesser Kestrel-Cornwall-Croft Pascoe Pool-Adult male still showing well in roadside bush at 50.0280, -5.1723; very limited parking, park considerately in layby (TR12 6SN) and walk through woods to end of plantation to view-Zitting Cisticola-Suffolk-Walberswick NNR-Displaying male again over saltmarsh between beach and Dunwich River; use Cliff Field car park (IP18 6TX; card/app payment only) and walk south-west along beach for c 1km to view from 52.3063, 1.6560. View only from the seawall, do not walk out on the raised bank-Stejneger's Scoter-Fife-East Wemyss-2nd-summer drake still on sea; use Weavers Court car park (KY1 4RT) and view from Wemyss Caves
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9.6.16

ACRE NOOK AND LAPWING HALL POOL-JUNE BIRD SIGHTINGS

Acre Nook Sightings
A quiet start this month around the patch, but I was rewarded on the 7th with 8 Mandarin ducks, which only stayed a few minutes before flying north. Lapwing numbers are increasing every day, with 47 counted on the 8th. Only 6 Shelduck remain with their broods.
Mandarin Duck

A juvenile Carrion Crow was by the path on the 5th.

Lapwing Hall pool bird sightings
The male Tree Sparrow is now showing on each visit.

Tree Sparrow

A Yellowhammer could be heard on the 6th, and the Wigeon is still present on the 7th.
Wigeon

Canada goose numbers reached 32 on the 6th, and four Little grebes were present.


Canada Goose

The weather has been beautiful this week in Cheshire, and the patch is full of colour.

The fields around the Lapwing Hall pool are full of Buttercups

Rhododendrons are now in full bloom on the Mosses 
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