14 April 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS 14TH APRIL 2018

WIRRAL
Burton RSPB
White Wagtail Left Of Main Scrape Near Fence
Yellow Wagtail x2 Left Of Main Scrape Near Fence
Ruff x1 Right Of Main Scrape
Great Egret x2 Right Of Wet Grassland
Mediterranean Gull x4 Main Scrape
Avocet x100+ Main Scrape
Swallow Over Reception Pool
Nuthatch By Reception
Cetti`s Warbler By Willow Pool
Blackcap x2 By Willow PoolBy Willow Pool
Sedge Warbler By Reedbed Screen (Heard)
Spotted Redshank x10 From Marsh Covert Hide
Chiffchaff x2 Path To IMF
Cattle Egret By Barn Early Morning
Grasshopper Warbler By Reedbed Screen (Heard)
Grey Partridge Birdcrop Field Early Morning


Leasowe
2 Great Skuas-Flew North past carpark-c10 Wheatear,c12 Swallow,10 Willow Warbler,30 Sandwich Tern and 11 Common Tern.Osprey circled over lighthouse.

Meols

Razorbill-Off groyne.

Hilbre

Whimbrel and Woodcock.

Birkenhead Park

Osprey-Over heading North.

Hoylake

Osprey-One eating fish on beach off Dovepoint; also 30 White Wagtails on beach. 

(C)ALLAN CONLIN

West Kirby

720 Black-tailed Godwit,27 Knot and 2 Bar-tailed Godwit-Caldy Wildfowl Collection off Column Road.


CHESHIRE
Moore Nature Reserve
Great Grey shrike and Grasshopper warbler-Still at Upper Moss side (c.SJ567853);access off Lapwing Lane.

(C)DAVE BEDFORD

Hale
Ring Ouzel-Male still in rough field from Ramsbrook Lane by greenhouses or by gate.c70 White Wagtail,Little Ringed plover and Whimbrel on Hale Marsh from Pickerings Scrape.Common Redstart-Adult male at back of pony field at Carr Lane.
  (C)DAVE CRAVEN

Astbury Mere
52 Brambling.

Sandbach Flashes
Common Sandpiper and Juvenile Iceland Gull.

Marbury Country park
Greenshank-Early morning only-Kid brook spit and Common sandpiper.

Woolston Eyes
Grasshopper warbler,11 Cetti's warbler and 9 Black necked grebes.

Warrington
Iceland Gull-Adult still along Winwick Road, sat on the roof of The Range behind Mcdonalds.