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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24.2.18

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 24TH FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Neston
Great White Egret.

 Burton RSPB
Whooper Swan x2 IMF
Avocet x22 IMF
Pink-Footed Geese x700+ Burton Marsh From Point
Chiffchaff Near Bence Along Boardwalk
Treecreeper x2 By Burton Mere
Kingfisher Willow Pool
Merlin Tree By Old Toilet Block
Nuthatch Car Park
Sparrowhawk Fence Right Main Scrape
Peregrine Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Curlew Main Scrape
2 Mandarin Nest Boxes Have Been Put Up Trees Back Of Burton Mere
Oystercatcher Main Scrape
Dunlin Main ScrapeGreat Egret Wet Grassland

 CHESHIRE
Moore Nature Reserve
2 Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers-In small triangular wood left of Lapwing lane.

 Poynton
Waxwing-Between Vernon road/Dickens land junction.

 Marbury Country Park-Hawfinch-5 in arboretum.

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

 Widnes
Glaucous Gull-On roof of WSR recycling.

Woolston Eyes
Marsh Harrier

 MEGAS IN BRITAIN
NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-Female alpestris,praticola or hoyti on the south basin; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731, TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

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.

 ITALIAN SPARROW-Possible (or hybrid sparrow sp.) in gardens on Wynards Road and Cadbury Gardens (present several days); park in car park off Hayes Lane or on B3178 at Oak Hill (c.SY067847)-East Budleigh-Devon.
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