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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CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 15TH NOVEMBER 2017

WIRRAL
West Kirby
4 Ring-necked Parakeet over Hilbre College then landed in trees.

Heswall Shore
1800 Shelduck,1515 Cormorant,1500 Dunlin,6000 Knot,800 Redshank,2 Greenshank,725 Black-tailed Godwit and 650 Curlew.


Heswall Off Riverbank Road
Great White Egret and a Hen Harrier (ringtail).


Burton Marsh
4 female Marsh Harrier,Great White Egret,Peregrine Falcon,Buzzard and 2 Kestrel.


Denhall Quay
1 Hen Harrier (grey male).


Hilbre
11 Eider,Peregrine and c300 Brent Geese.


Burton RSPB
Pink-Footed Geese x6000+ Flew Over High Up
Whooper Swan x6 Flew Over Scrape
Avocet x1 Main Scrape
Siskin Burton Mere
Kingfisher Marsh Covert Hide
Water Rail Along Boardwalk
Pintail x2 Bridge Screen Pool
Ruff x5 IMF
Fieldfare x60+ Burton Point
Curlew x30+ Field Burton Point
Marsh Harrier x3 Burton Marsh From Burton Point
Great Egret x3 Burton Marsh
Short-Eared Owl Burton Marsh
Hen Harrier Adult Burton Marsh
Sparrowhawk Burton Marsh


CHESHIRE
Sandbach Flashes
Adult Yellow Legged Gull

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PIED BILLED GREBE-Setter Marsh-Loch Of Spiggie-Mainland-Shetland.

MEDITERRANEAN FLYCATCHER-Possible just east of Cloughton Newlands from 24th-28th October has been confirmed as a Spotted Flycatcher by DNA analysis.

PACIFIC DIVER-Adult still-off Longrock car park-Marazion-Cornwall.

ITALIAN SPARROW-Possible (or hybrid sparrow sp.) in gardens on Wynards Road and Cadbury Gardens (present several days); park in car park off Hayes Lane or on B3178 at Oak Hill (c.SY067847)-East Budleigh-Devon.