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
Fatbirder's Top 1000 Birding Websites

15.12.17

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

WIRRAL
Neston Old Quay
Hen Harrier-Ringtail,2 Great White egret and Water Pipit,Short-eared Owl,Merlin,Peregrine (juv),4 Marsh harrier and a Goosander (male flying west).


Burton RSPB
Whooper Swan x20 Field Behind D Barn
Mistle Thrush Field Left Bunker Entrance
Fieldfare As Above
Redwing x350+ As Above
Kingfisher Reception Pool
Avocet x1 Main Scrape
Ruff x2 Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Pink-Footed Geese x2000 Flew Over
Goldcrest x2 By Burton Mere
Treecreeper By Willow Mere
Chiffchaff Marsh Covert Wood
Great Egret x2 Burton Marsh From Point
Peregrine x2 Over Main Scrape

Hilbre
5 Purple Sandpiper,5 Eider and 282 Brent Geese.


CHESHIRE
Brownlow
Hawfinch-One in large beech tree by the farmhouse at c.SJ832611 this afternoon; park only at the bottom of Sandy Lane at c.SJ831605 and walk up Sandy Lane, cross Childs Lane and take the footpath north then west.

Marbury Country Park
4 Hawfinch still around Old hall site and Bittern still in T A Coward reedbed.