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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22.1.18

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 22ND JANUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Greasby-Pump Lane
Mediterranean in large field next to Pump Lane.

 Denhall Quay
Short-eared Owl.

 Hilbre
5 Eider and 287 Brent Geese (incl 1 dark-bellied)

 Burton RSPB
Great Egret Burton Marsh From Point
Bullfinch x4 Railway Bridge
Siskin x30+ In Alders Copse To IMF
Sparrowhawk Over Boardwalk
Chiffchaff Marsh Covert Wood From Boardwalk
Redwing x30+ Burton Mere
Fieldfare x20+ Burton Mere
Pintail Main Scrape
Peregrine x2 Over Main Scrape
Pink-Footed Geese x25+ Wet Grassland
Whooper Swan x6 Field Behind D Barn
Little Owl Still In Tree Seen From Puddington Lane
Ruff x2 Main ScrapeLittle Stint Main Scrape

 CHESHIRE
Sandbach Flashes
Juvenile Iceland Gull,2 Juvenile Glaucous gulls and 2 Great White egrets-Railway Flash.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-
Probable nominate form alpestrisor hoyti on North Basin causeway bank; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731, TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

 PACIFIC DIVER-Adult offshore-Pendower beach-Cornwall.

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