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.