23 January 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 23RD JANUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Burton RSPB
Whooper Swan x6 Field Behind D Barn
Fieldfare x30 Field Left Bunker Entrance
Redwing x21 As Above
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Spotted Redshank Main Scrape
Curlew x13 Right Of Main Scrape
Snipe x3 Marsh Covert Hide
Great Egret x2 Burton Marsh From Point
Little Owl Still In Tree
Goldcrest In Copse To IMF

Treecreeper As Above
Peregrine Over Main Scrape


Thurstaston Shore
8,000 Knot roosting off Tinker's Dell.

Hilbre
6 Eider and 200 Brent Geese.

Parkgate
Bittern,3 Marsh Harrier,Hen Harrier (male),4 Great White Egret and a Merlin.


Neston
8 Marsh Harrier,3 Great White Egret and a Peregrine.


Meols-Dove point
Greenshank on groyne.

CHESHIRE
Cuddington
Hawfinch-1 still at Delamere Park at corner of Westrees.


Sandbach Flashes
Adult Iceland gull and 1st Winter Kumliens Gull.

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 (TQ051731TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

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