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 16TH FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Outer Burton Marsh
6-7,000 Pink-footed Geese and a Hen Harrier (ringtail).

Burton RSPB
Whooper Swan x4 Field Behind D Barn
Redwing x40+ Field Left Bunker Entrance
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Peregrine Fence Right Wet Grassland
Nuthatch Feeder Far End Reception Pool
Kingfisher Willow Mere
Pintail Marsh Covert Hide
Stonechat x2  Marsh Covert Hide
Chiffchaff Trees Along Boardwalk
Goldcrest As Above
Avocet x1 IMF
Green Woodpecker Burton Point
Great Egret x3 Burton Marsh From Point
Water Pipit x2 Marsh Covert Hide


New Brighton
10 Purple Sandpiper on pontoon.


CHESHIRE
Astbury Mere
Hawfinches-2 in silver birches left of visitors car park.

Poynton
Waxwing-One showing well between Vernon road/Dickens land junction.

Marbury Country Park
Bittern-2 in TA Coward reedbed and 3 Hawfinch.

Cuddington
Hawfinch-3 still at Delamere Park at corner of Westrees.

Sandbach Flashes-Railway flash
Glaucous Gull-3 Juvenile and an adult.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PIED BILLED GREBE-Loch Of Spiggie-Mainland-Shetland.

NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-Female alpestris,praticola or hoyti on causeway; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

PACIFIC DIVER-Adult off Rock pool cafe and White billed Diver-Mousehole-Cornwall.

THAYER'S GULL- Still in Blackheath Down pig field east of road-walk c.1.5km east along bridleway and view fields to north-Tipdit-Hampshire.