27 January 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 27TH JANUARY 2018

WIRRAL
West Kirby Marine Lake
Goosander (red head).


Parkgate
Bittern,Hen Harrier (grey male),5 Great White Egret and 12 Marsh Harrier.


Denhall Quay
Great White Egret.


Puddington
Cattle Egret.

Neston Sewage Works.
Water Pipit.


Thurstaston Shore
Scaup in channel.

Burton RSPB
Whooper Swan x6 Field Behind D Barn
Redwing Field Left Bunker Entrance
Mistle Thrush As Above
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassand
Peregrine Wet Grassland
Siskin x20+ Alders By Garden
Kingfisher In Tree Willow Mere
Jay Marsh Covert Wood
Pintail x2 Bridge Screen Pool
Curlew x17Bridge Screen
Bullfinch 2 By Railway Bridge
Raven Over Burton Point
Great Egret x2 Burton Marsh From Point
Merlin As Above
Fieldfare Field Left Bunker Entrance


CHESHIRE
Frodsham Marshes
Great White egret still on salt marsh.

Marbury Country Park
Hawfinch-4 still around Old hall site.


Newchurch Common
Female Smew of unknown origin-On large pool north of track and good numbers of Brambling still around the area.


Winsford Flash
2 Kittiwakes and a Mediterranean Gull.

Sandbach Flashes
2 Great White egrets

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PACIFIC DIVER-Adult offshore from The Station House pub-Marazion-Cornwall.

NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-
Probable nominate form alpestris,praticola,hoyti on North Basin causeway bank; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.