8 May 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS 8TH MAY 2018

WIRRAL
Burton RSPB
White Wagtail Wet Grassland Right Of Scrape
Avocet X3 Chicks Main Scrape
Tawny Owl (Young) Marsh Covert Wood
Reed Warbler Reedbed Screen
Cetti`s Warbler Far End Boardwalk
Grey Partridge x2 Birdcrop Field
Chiffchaff In Copse To IMF
Whitethroat Near Wooden Bridge To IMF
Common Tern x2 Main Scrape
Ringed Plover x2 Main Scrape
Mediterranean Gulls Wet Grassland Behind Scrape
Cattle Egret Marsh Covert Wood

Great White Egret
Sandwich Tern 25+
Common Sandpiper

Thurstaston

Cuckoo calling by Dungeon bridge,Wirral Way.

Heswall Shore

Red Kite drifted South at 07:40,570 Oystercatcher,280 Grey Plover,200 Ringed Plover,300 Knot,Cuckoo,1000 Dunlin,16 Black-tailed Godwit and 9 Whimbrel.


Red Rocks
2 Cuckoo (m+f) and Tree Pipit and 10 Wheatear and 50+ Gannet feeding off shore.


Hilbre
2 Wheatear,183 Gannet,14 Manx Shearwater,3 Little tern,2 immature drake Eider and 7 Whimbrel.


Hilbre College
Red Kite over at 1040am.

Thurstaston Hill

Iberian Chiffchaff -100 yards south of Benty Farm.

CHESHIRE

Moore Nature Reserve
Wood Warbler-singing male still on north side of Eastern Reedbed and 50m down steps along old canal.

Woolston Eyes

Garganey-Drake from South Screen.

Pickerings Pasture

Western Osprey-One flew northwest across Mersey Estuary.

Sandbach Flashes

Glossy Ibis-Found roosting in tree by Railway Flash at first light then flew towards Elton Hall Flash but no further sign by 9.55am.