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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17.1.17

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS-17TH JAN 2017



WIRRAL
New Brighton-Purple sandpiper-11 on Marine lake pontoon.

 Hilbre-Scaup-3 Drakes off north end.

 West Kirby-Snow Bunting-one by Pinfold steps.
 CHESHIRE
Astbury Mere Country Park-Long Tailed Duck.

 Sandbach Flashes-Iceland Gull- juvenile on Pumphouse Flash again to mid-day when it flew off.

 Ellesmere Port-13 Waxwing's still on Alder Drive.

 Crewe-Waxwing-20+at Macon meadows.

Newchurch Common-Redhead Smew still north of track.

 Middlewich-Waxwing-23 today.

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

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

BLUE ROCK THRUSH Male in garden at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.
PACIFIC DIVER-Still offshore-Marazion-Cornwall.

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


             
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