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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CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 1ST FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
New Brighton
2 Little Gull over river,11 Purple Sandpiper,230 Turnstone,1,700 Redshank and 180 Dunlin on pontoon.


Burton RSPB
Redwing x25 Tree Behind Field Left Of Bunker
Peregrine Wet Grassland
Pink-Footed Geese x200+ Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier x2 Over Wet Grassland
Curlew x15 Right Of Main Scrape
Nuthatch Car Park
Bullfinch x1 Tree Burton Mere
Little Grebe x2 Burton Mere
Meadow Pipit x2 Marsh Covert Hide
Snipe x1 Marsh Covert Hide
Stonechat x2 Birdcrop Field


Denhall Quay
2 Short-eared Owl.


Parkgate
3 Great White Egret and 2 Hen Harrier (male and ringtail).

CHESHIRE
Sandbach Flashes
Juvenile Glaucous gull and Great White egret.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-
Probable nominate form alpestrisor hoyti on south side of causeway on bank; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

PACIFIC DIVER-Adult offshore-Pendower beach-Cornwall. 

AUDOUIN'S GULL-Wholly unconfirmed report of probable adult-Gannel estuary-Cornwall.