CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 22ND JULY 2017

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West Kirby-2 Mediterranean Gull (ads) off West Kirby Marine Lake as tide came in.

Hoylake-2 Little Tern,30 Common Tern and 145 Sandwich Tern in gull roost just after high tide.

Burton RSPB-Garden Warbler.

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Newchurch common-Great white egret

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
BAND RUMPED STORM PETREL-Probable-Prawle point-Devon.

AMERICAN WHITE WINGED SCOTER-Murcar GC-Aberdeenshire.

BULWER'S PETREL-Possible-Porthgwarra-Cornwall.

RECORD YEAR FOR BREEDING BLACK WINGED STILTS IN BRITAIN

An unprecedented 13 Black-winged Stilt chicks have fledged in Britain from sites in Kent, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, including nine on two RSPB reserves.CLICK ON LINK

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 21ST JULY 2017

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Hilbre-c20 Manx Shearwater flew past in small groups and 21 Whimbrel roosted, 143 Little Tern and a Mediteranean Gull (ad) roosted on East Hoyle Bank as tide ebbed.

Caldy-1,100 Black-tailed Godwit.

Heswall-300 Shelduck, 1000 Dunlin,2000 Redshank,700 Curlew,42 Whimbrel,1ad + 1 2nd sum Mediterranean Gull and 500 Black-headed Gull.


Leasowe-Arctic Skua.

Burton RSPB-Great white egret.

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Newchurch common-Great white egret

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 20TH JULY 2017

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Hilbre-3 Whimbrel and lots of Sandwich terns.


Caldy-1,100 Black-tailed Godwit.

Burton RSPB-Red Kite,2 Great White Egret,4 Mediterranean Gull,4 Green Woodpecker,Raven,Green Sandpiper and a Common Sandpiper.

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Sandbach flashes-Fem Garganey.

BEE EATERS HATCH YOUNG IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

The RSPB has announced that the European Bee-eaters breeding at East Leake Quarry, Nottinghamshire, have hatched young.CLICK ON LINK

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

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Heswall-Imm Marsh Harrier,46 Little Egret,31 Grey Plover,1600 Dunlin, 70 Knot,3000 Redshank,170 Black-tailed Godwit and 1140 Curlew,3 Whimbrel.

Caldy-630 Black-tailed Godwit.

West Kirby Marine lake-2 Mediterranean Gull (ads).

Meols-c1,500 Knot, 300 Dunlin and a Greenshank.

New Brighton-2 Mediterranean Gull (1 ad s/pl and 1 juv).

MEGAS IN BRITAIN

PIED BILLED GREBE-Loch Feorlin-Argyll.

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 18TH JULY 2017

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West Kirby Marine lake-700 Sandwich Tern,40 Common Tern and 1,000 Black-headed Gull.

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Wood sandpiper-Elton flash-Sandbach.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PIED BILLED GREBE-Loch Feorlin-Argyll.

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 17TH JULY 2017

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Caldy-750 Black-tailed Godwit.

New Brighton-Mediterranean Gull (ad s/pl).

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
AMUR FALCON-1st-summer female from substation by minor road to Crows-an-Wra c.800m NNW of St Buryan-Cornwall.

AMERICAN WHITE WINGED SCOTER-Murcar GC-Aberdeenshire.

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 16TH JULY 2017

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Caldy-780 Black-tailed Godwit.

Meols-Greenshank.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
AMERICAN WHITE WINGED SCOTER-Murcar GC-Aberdeenshire.