10 March 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 10TH MARCH 2018

WIRRAL
West Kirby Marine Lake
7 Scaup (4 male,3 female) and 13 Brent Geese.

Leasowe Lighthouse
Short-eared Owl and a Jack Snipe west end of horse paddocks.

Burton RSPB
Great Egret x3 Burton Marsh From Point
Pink-Footed Geese x1000 As Above
Whooper Swan x4 IMF
Stonechat x2 Bird crop Field
Cetti`s Warbler Reedbed Screen
Goldcrest Marsh Covert Wood
Avocet x27 Main Scrape
Pintail x2 Main Scrape
Mediterranean Gull x2 Main Scrape
Merlin Tree Above New Toilet Block
Brambling By Feeder Near Barn
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Chiffchaff Between Willow & Woodland Mere


Birkenhead
Caspian Gull-3rd Summer at docks at Beaufort Road opposite Beaufort House. 

CHESHIRE
Astbury Mere
2 Hawfinch still in silver birches left of visitors car park.


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


Marbury Country Park
7 Hawfinch still around Arboretum and Bittern still-T A Coward reedbed.Lesser spotted woodpecker-Mere side alders.

Sandbach Flashes
Juvenile Glaucous Gull,Little Egret and Adult Yellow legged gull-Elton Hall flash.Greater Scaup-Railway flash.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PACIFIC DIVER-Adult-Portscatho-Cornwall.

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