11 February 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 11TH FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
West Kirby Marine lake
Mediteranean Gull (ad),possible Glaucous/Herring Gull hybrid,6 Red-breasted Merganser and a Goosander (re-head).


West Kirby-St Bridgets church
2 Brambling with Chaffinches in horse paddock.
Burton RSPB
Whooper Swan x4 Field Behind D Barn
Peregrine Over Main Scrape
Ruff x2 Main Scrape
Great Egret x1 Main Scrape
Pink- Footed Geese x6 Wet Grassland
Water Pipit Marsh Covert Hide
Meadow Pipit Marsh Covert Hide
Stonechat Marsh Covert Hide
Brent Goose Wet Grassland
Pintail 3 Bridge Screen Pool

CHESHIRE
Poynton
Waxwing-Off Dickens Lane in top of small roadside tree on right hand side of road just past the turn for the leisure centre.


Marbury Country Park
Bittern-TA Coward reedbed and 10 Hawfinch at old hall site.


Sandbach Flashes
Kumlien's gull-Elton Hall flash.

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.

THAYER'S GULL-Juvenile-Isbley water-Blashford lakes-Hampshire.