After yesterdays massive dip on the Isles of Scilly for a Belted Kingfisher I got up early and made my way up the north wirral coast to Leasowe.On arrival at the lighthouse carpark I met up with patch regular Eddie williams. As the morning mist started to clear birds were clearly moving along the coast.There were good numbers of Willow warbler and Chiffchaff around and 9 Wheatear were in the fields behind the paddocks along with a male Whinchat.
WHINCHAT
(C)ALLAN CONLIN
As we were walking around the paddocks White wagtails were in good numbers and a Yellow wagtail flew over us calling.
WHITE WAGTAIL
A local birder had found a male Redstart further down the path and it didn't take long for us to relocate it.The bird was very active feeding but distant .
As we arrived at Lingham lane we bumped in to Mark turner who I hadn't seen for a long time so we continued to all bird together.At the bottom of lane we heard a Lesser whitethroat in full song that eventually appeared on top of the hawthorn bushes.
A good mornings birding and at last birds are starting to arrive and we have sunshine!LONG MAY IT CONTINUE!
WIRRAL'S FINEST!EDDIE AND MARK!
