18 February 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 18TH FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Burton RSPB
Whooper Swan x4 Field Behind D Barn
Cattle Egret Main Scrape
Avocet x2 Main Scrape
Curlew x25 Main Scrape
Peregrine Fence Right Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Kingfisher Willow Pool
Great Egret x3 Burton Marsh From Point
Pink-Footed Geese x25 Flew Over Reserve
Ruff x3 Bridge Screen
Pintail Border Pool
Goldcrest Along Path To IMF
Brambling Feeder By Barn\


Hilbre
7 Eider and 181 Turnstone.


Tanskey Rocks.
5,500 Knot and 1,000 Dunlin.


New Brighton marine lake
10 Purple Sandpiper and 125 Turnstone.


Denhall Quay
1 Brambling on tide wrack.


Parkgate Marsh
2 Great White Egret,Bittern and a Marsh Harrier (fem).

CHESHIRE
Marbury Country Park
Bittern-TA Coward reedbed and 11 Hawfinch at old hall site.

Newchurch Common
Female Smew of unknown origin-In eastern bay of large pool north of track.

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

Sandbach Flashes
Juvenile Glaucous Gull and 2 Great White egrets.Long Eared owl-Groby flash.Juvenile Glaucous Gull-Maw Green tip.

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

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
TAIGA MERLIN-1st-winter male relocated chasing Snow Buntings near quarry then flew east towards Scrabster and lost to view-Holborn Head-Highland-Scotland.

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.