16 January 2017

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS-15TH JAN 2017




WIRRAL
 Red Rocks-Snow Bunting still.

Parkgate- Great White Egret and 2 Hen Harrier.

West Kirby-201 Brent Geese along the edge of saltmarsh

Thurstaston-1 drake Common Scoter and a Greenshank.

New Brighton Marine Lake-10 Purple Sandpiper.


CHESHIRE
Warrington-Waxwing-50+ on Milner Street.

 Sandbach Flashes-Iceland Gull-juvenile on Pumphouse Flash.

Ellesmere Port-10 Waxwing's still on Alder Drive.

Warmingham-Waxwing-one near the village hall.

Crewe-Waxwing-9 in trees on Macon Way briefly today before flying off towards the university.

Henbury-Waxwing-c.40 in private gardens again this afternoon.


MEGAS IN BRITAIN
KILLDEER1st-winter still in wet field northwest of The Wart junction,Sandwick,Mainland,Shetland.

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

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.

PACIFIC DIVER-Still offshore-Marazion-Cornwall.

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