14 January 2017

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS-14TH JAN 2017




WIRRAL
Hilbre-298 Brent Geese.


New Brighton marine lake-18 Purple Sandpiper.


Burton RSPB-Green-winged Teal (drake).


Red Rocks-Snow Bunting and 58 Brent Geese.


Parkgate-2 Great White Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, 3 Peregrine, 1 Merlin, 3 Hen Harrier.


West Kirby marine lake-Goosander and 3 Red-breasted Merganser.

Neston Marsh-Water pipit still on sewage works and Great white egret on marsh.

CHESHIRE
Crewe-7 Waxwing's briefly at Macon Meadows.

Frodsham marshes-3 Little stint still on No.6 Tank; also 2 Great white egrets again on Frodsham Score.

Sandbach Flashes-Juvenile Iceland gull on small flash by Railway Flash this morning; also Great white egret.

Astbury Mere Country Park-Long Tailed Duck.

Ellesmere Port-12 Waxwing's still on Alder Drive

Warrington-Waxwing-70+ on Milner Street.

Henbury-3 Waxwing's in silver birch in garden on edge of farmland.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
DUSKY THRUSH Still,Pig Lane, Beeley, 5mls NNW of Matlock, Derbyshire.

BLUE ROCK THRUSH Male in garden at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-1st Winter Male still on the rocks north side of the jetty-Skinningrove-Cleveland.

EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-male-still on rocks below Rockpool CafĂ©-Mousehole-Cornwall.

PACIFIC DIVER-Still offshore-Marazion-Cornwall.

HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL-Adult still at Boat cove-Perranuthnoe,Cornwall.


STEJNEGER'S STONECHAT-DNA re-test has shown the bird to be a European Stonechat of either form rubicola or hibernans.