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 3RD FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Leasowe Lighthouse
Greenshank by groyne.

 Parkgate
Hen Harrier-Male.


North Wirral Coast
10,000+ Common Scoter

Neston Reed Bed
4 Great White Egret and a Red-breasted Merganser fishing on flooded pool.

 Burton RSPB
Pintail x1 IMF
Goldcrest x3 Path To IMF
Stonechat x2 Marsh Covert Hide
Fieldfare x4 Tree Back Of Burton Mere
Nuthatch Near Reception Feeder
Grey Wagtail Reception Pool
Peregrine Fence Right Of Main Scrape
Whooper Swan x4 Field Behind `D'Barn
Pink-Footed Geese x200+ Flew Over Reserve
Sparrowhawk Over Field By Bunker
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland

 CHESHIRE
Frodsham Marsh
Great White egret.

 Sandbach Flashes
Iceland Gull and Yellow legged gull.

 Cuddington
Hawfinch-1 still at Delamere Park at corner of Westrees.

 Hale
Little Stint with 3000 Dunlin.

 MEGAS IN BRITAIN
MERLIN-female/juvenile male 'Taiga Merlin' (nominate form columbarius) at Burnside at c.14:00 then flew off-Thurso-Highland-Scotland.
NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-
Probable nominate form alpestrisor hoyti on south side of causeway on bank; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731, TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.
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