19 February 2017

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 19TH FEB 2017



WIRRAL
Irby-8 Waxwing along Irby Road by junction with Towshend Ave.


Denhall Quay-Short-eared Owl.


Leasowe lighthouse-Greenshank by groyne.

CHESHIRE
Sandbach Flashes-Iceland gull-adult on Oakwood Flash briefly mid-afternoon-Juvenile Glaucous gull still. Iceland gull-immature on Elton Hall Flash; also Great White egret still on Pumphouse Flash.

Lapwing Hall Pool-Black Necked grebe

Newchurch Common-Redhead Smew and Red Crested pochard.


MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PINE BUNTING-Still at Intake lane-Dunnington-N.Yorks.

PACIFIC DIVER-1st-winter-on North pool-East Chevington NWT-Northumberland.

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 again in stubble fields by Saxon Shore Way c.200m north of Little Murston Farm at c.09:00 but no further sign by 11:00-Little Murston-Kent.

AMERICAN COOT-still at Loch nam Feithean-Balranald RSPB-N Uist-Outer Hebrides.