CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 31ST JAN 2017

WIRRAL
West Kirby Marine Lake-Purple Sandpiper-seven still.

Heswall-21 Waxwing by junction of A540 and Thurstaston Road.


West Kirby Marine Lake-2 Goldeneye and 5 Red-breasted Merganser.


Parkgate-Great White Egret,2 ringtail Hen Harrier and a Peregrine-(report of 40+ Twite).


Burton Marsh-Marsh Harrier.

Neston Sewage Treatment Works-Water Pipit on filter beds. 
CHESHIRE
Upton-Waxwing-28 midway along Heath Road.

Redes Mere-Smew.

Astbury Mere Country Park-Female Long Tailed duck.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
AMERICAN COOT-still at Loch nam Feithean at Balranald RSPB,Outer Hebrides.

PINE BUNTING-Male, at Saxon Shore Way, east of Milton Creek, NE of Sittingbourne, Kent.

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

BLUE ROCK THRUSH-adult male-at Fisher Close.Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

PINE BUNTING-male-by Hagg Farm in paddock behind housing estate;park in the village and walk along Intake Lane to view-Dunnington-North Yorkshire.

PACIFIC DIVER-1st-winter-on North pool-Druridge Bay-Northumberland.