25 February 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 25TH FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
West Kirby Marine Lake
2 Brent Geese.

Neston-Parkgate Marsh
Bittern flew east,3 Marsh Harrier,Short-eared Owl,Peregrine and 2 Great White Egret.


Burton RSPB
Peregrine reception, sitting in back wet grassland most of day.
Marsh harrier 2 reception.
Avocet 7 moving between reception, bridge pool and IMF.
c1000 pink-footed geese Burton point.
Great white egret 2 Burton point.
Pintail 1 male IMF.
Curlew 23 field behind car park.
Spotted redshank 3 bridge pool (but only viewable from IMF).
Stonechat 3 setaside field by railway line and 2 by marsh covert screen.
Cetti's warbler boardwalk.
Nuthatch feeders by reception.
Raven 2 sheep fields by railway line.


CHESHIRE
Ince Marshes
Great White Egret.

Sandbach Flashes
Iceland Gull,Greater Scaup,Juvenile Glaucous gull and 2 Great White egrets-Railway Flash.

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


Poynton
Waxwing-Between Vernon road/Dickens land junction.


Pickerings Pasture
Adult Glaucous gull on River Mersey.

Marbury Country Park-Hawfinch-5 in arboretum.

Cuddington
Hawfinch-2 still at Delamere Park at corner of Westrees.


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

PACIFIC DIVER-Adult-Mousehole-Cornwall.

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

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