LATEST CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS

31st July 2019
Burton RSPB
Marsh Harrier (F) Over Wet Grassland 
Buzzard Fence Behind Wet Grassland 
Great Egret x1 Right Of Wet Grassland 
Avocets x17 Main Scrape
Dunlin x4 Main Scrape
Snipe x5 Main Scrape
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool
Great Crested Grebes x2 Bridge Pool
Whitethroat Along Boardwalk
Swallows Burton Point
House Martins Burton Point
Great Egrets x2 Burton Marsh From Point
Ruff x1 (M) IMF
Green Sandpiper x1 IMF
Greenshank x1 IMF

Meols
Peregrine-Juvenile- Chasing Starlings in horse paddocks.

Hoylake
Adult Yellow legged gull-In gull roost

Woolston Eyes
2 Green Sandpiper,Common Sandpiper and 8 Black tailed godwits-No3 Bed

Redesmere
Hobby

Hilbre Island
11 Arctic Skua,3 Manx Shearwater and a Fulmar

30th July 2019
Redesmere 
Common Scoter-Drake

Pickerings Pasture
Curlew sandpiper-Showing from carpark

Marbury Country Park
Black Necked Grebe-Juvenile and  a Barn Owl

Burton RSPB
Great Egret x1 Burton Marsh From Point 
Little Ringed Plover x1 IMF 
Great Egret x1 Border Pool 
Whitethroat Along Boardwalk
Great C Grebes 2 No Sign Of Chick Bridge Pool
Common Sandpiper x1 Marsh Covert Hide
Green Sandpiper x3 Marsh Covert Hide
Little Grebe x1 Marsh Covert Hide
Reed Warbler x3 Marsh Covert Hide
Buzzard Over Reedbed
Sedge Warbler Near Reedbed Screen
Green Woodpecker Marsh Covert Wood
Avocets Main Scrape
Ruff x2 Main Scrape
Snipe x3 Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier Reeds By Main Scrape
Stock Dove Fence Left Of Wet Grassland

Caldy Wildfowl Collection
3,900 Black-tailed Godwit

Burton Point
Great Egret over and a Marsh Harrier (juv)

Hoylake
Wheatear

29th July 2019
Heswall Shore
1,900 Oystercatcher,4 Knot,2 Sanderling,Turnstone,3,200 Dunlin,1600 Curlew,6 Whimbrel,95 Black-tailed Godwit and 5,100 Redshank

Leasowe Lighthouse
Mediterranean Gull (juv)-In flooded field by Park Lane.

Caldy Wildfowl Collection
3,200 Black-tailed Godwit

Decca Pools
Wood Sandpiper (flew deeper into marsh),4 Great White Egret over and 2 Marsh Harrier

Burton Point
3 Little Owl (1 juv)

Burton RSPB
Ruff x1 (M) Main Scrape 
Snipe x2 Main Scrape 
Avocets Main Scrape 
Sedge Warbler x2 Main Scrape
Buzzard Fence Left Of Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier (F) Over Wet Grassland
Swallows Over Reception Pool
Water Rail (Heard) Reedbed Screen
Reed Warbler Marsh Covert Hide
Green Sandpiper x2 Marsh Covert Hide
Common Sandpiper x1 Marsh Covert Hide
Little Ringed Plovers x2 Marsh Covert Hide
Little Grebe Bridge Pool
Great Crested Grebes x3 Bridge Pool
Great Egrets x2 Burton Marsh From Point

Rostherne Mere
Common Scoter-Drake

Marbury Country Park
Black Necked Grebe-Juvenile

(C)GREG BAKER

West Kirby marine Lake
Mediterranean Gull-Adult

Doddington Pool
3 Common Scoter-Drakes

Hurleston Reservoir
2 Common Scoter-Drakes

Congleton-Mosley Reads Lane
Hobby-Flew over golf course

Burleydam Pool
Red Kite

28th July 2019
Burton RSPB
Swallows IMF 
House Martins IMF 
Sand Martins IMF 
Ruff x1 IMF
Yellow Wagtail (Juvenile) IMF
Raven Over IMF
Great Egret Over IMF
Sedge Warbler x2 IMF
Great Crested Grebes x3 Bridge Pool
Greenshank (Heard) Marsh Covert Hide
Reed Warbler By Reedbed Screen
Green Sandpiper x3 Reception Pool
Wood Sandpiper x2 Main Scrape
Dunlin x1 Main Scrape
Avocets Main Scrape
Mediterranean Gulls x2 Main Scrape
Bar-Tailed Godwit Main Scrape
Turnstones x3 Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Water Rail Marsh Covert Hide
Peregrine Over Main Scrape

Astbury Mere
8 Common Scoter -Briefly then flew South West

Pickerings Pasture
3 Arctic Tern and 25 Common Scoter-Flew West past

27th July 2019
Burton RSPB
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool 
Swifts Over Reception Pool 
Mediterranean Gulls x2 Main Scrape 
Avocets Main Scrape
Ruff x3 Main Scrape
Snipe x5 Main Scrape
Dublin Main Scrape
Garganey (Juvenile) Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Buzzard Fence Left Of Wet Grassland
Reed Warbler Reedbed Screen
Water Rail (Heard) Near Reedbed Screen
Great Egret x1 Over Reedbed
Green Sandpiper x3 Marsh Covert Hide
Wood Sandpiper x2 Marsh Covert Hide
Garganey (Male) In Eclipse MCH
Great Crested Grebes x3 Bridge Pool
Garganey Female & Juvenile IMF
Swallows Over IMF
House Martins Over IMF
Sand Martins Over IMF
Curlew x1 Flew Over Reserve
Sanderling x1 Marsh Covert Hide

Meols-Dove Point
Greenshank

Hilbre Island
4 Little Tern,20 Common Tern and 400 Sandwich Tern in tern roost just east of Hilbre on falling tide,also a Wheatear on the sandbank

Puddington
2 Hobby 

Meols Common
Grasshopper Warbler

Heswall Shore
31 Little Egret,1800 Oystercatcher,13 Knot,1700 Dunlin,1700 Curlew,2 Whimbrel,3500 Black-tailed Godwit,4400 Redshank,2400 Black-headed Gull,2 adult Mediterranean Gull and 370 Common Gull

Burton Marsh
Great Egret on marsh and 2 Little Owl by Burton Point 

Woolston Eyes
Juvenile Garganey-Morgan hide

26th July 2019
Burton RSPB
Great Egrets x3 Burton Marsh From Point 
Sparrowhawk Burton Marsh From Point 
Swifts Burton Point 
Swallows Burton Point
Whitethroat x2 Juvenile By Railway Bridge
Kingfisher IMF
Marsh Harrier Over IMF
Water Rail (Heard) By Bridge Screen
Great Crested Grebes x3 Bridge Pool
Reed Warbler Near Reedbed Screen
Blackcap By Willow Pool
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool
Great Egret x1 Main Scrape
Mediterranean Gulls x3 Main Scrape
Spotted Redshank x1 Main Scrape
Snipe x7 Main Scrape
Ruff x2 Main Scrape
Avocets Main Scrape
Peregrine Over Wet Grassland

Decca Pools
3 Little Ringed Plover (1ad, 2 juv),Hen Harrier (looked like it had white wing tags),Marsh Harrier and a  Water Rail

Caldy Steps
3,000 Black-tailed Godwit and 2,000 Dunlin-Out in the middle of the estuary

Parkgate
6 Spoonbill-Boathouse Flash

Woolston Eyes
Juvenile Garganey-Morgan hide

Bickley Hall Farm
Common Quail-male singing in barley field on farm trail near Bar Mere; access details on CWT website 

Sandbach Flashes
Yellow Legged Gull and 2 Egyptian Geese

25th July 2019
Burton RSPB
Ruff x2 Main Scrape 
Snipe x6 Main Scrape 
Mediterranean Gulls x2 Main Scrape 
Avocets Main Scrape
Great Egret x1 Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier x2 Over Wet Grassland
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool
Reed Warbler Near Reedbed Screen
Buzzard Over Reedbed
Great Crested Grebes x3 Bridge Pool
Blackcap Marsh Covert Wood
Whitethroat Along Path To IMF
Chiffchaff By IMF Hide
Spotted Redshank x1 Adult x1 Juv IMF (Photo)
Lesser Black-backed Gull IMF (Photo)
Great Egret x1 Burton Marsh From Point
Swallows Over Burton Point
Common Sandpiper x1 Main Scrape

Parkgate
6 Spoonbill,Water Rail and a Marsh Harrier with prey.

Hilbre Island
620 Sandwich Tern

Lostock Green-Hourse stables
2 Adult Yellow Wagtails and 5 Juveniles

Woolston Eyes
Juvenile Garganey and Little Ringed Plover-Morgan hide scape

Risley Moss
2 Hobby

24th July 2019
Burton RSPB
Great Egrets x2 Burton Marsh From Point 
Whitethroat By Railway Bridge 
Green Sandpiper x1 Bridge Pool 
Great Crested Grebes x3 Bridge Pool
Little Grebes Bridge Pool
Chiffchaff Marsh Covert Wood
Blackcap Marsh Covert Wood
Sedge Warbler By Marsh Covert Hide
Reed Warbler Near Reedbed Screen
Cetti's Warbler By Willow Pool
Green Woodpecker (H) By Burton Mere
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool
Swallows Over Reception Pool
Mediterranean Gulls Main Scrape
Avocets Main Scrape
Snipe x3 Main Scrape
Buzzard Over Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier (F) Over Wet Grassland

Meols-Dove Point
5 Mediterranean Gull (4ad and 1 juv) and a Greenshank

Heswall-Cottage Lane
Grasshopper Warbler

Burton Marsh
6 Spoonbill

Astbury Mere
16 Raven-Over

Lostock green
5 Yellow Wagtails-(Juveniles)

23RD July 2019
Burton RSPB
Marsh Harrier (F) Over Wet Grassland 
Ruff (M) x1 Main Scrape 
Spotted Redshank x1 Main Scrape 
Avocets x14 Main Scrape
Mediterranean Gulls x3 Main Scrape
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool
Buzzard Marsh Covert Wood
Reed Warbler Reedbed Screen
Snipe x3 Marsh Covert Hide
Great C Grebes 2Adult +1Chick Bridge Pool
Little Grebes x2 Bridge Pool
Raven Over Birdcrop Field
House Martins Burton Point
Swifts Burton Point
Swallows Burton Point
Yellow Wagtail Wet Grassland

Decca Pools
Hen Harrier(Ringtail)

Caldy Wildfowl Collection
2,960 Black-tailed Godwit 

Parkgate
6 Spoonbill-Boathouse Flash

Woolston Eyes
Garganey-Juvenile

Astbury Mere
2 Goosander(Redheads)

Pickerings Pasture
3 Yellow Legged Gull

22nd July 2019
Burton RSPB
House Martins Burton Marsh From Point 
Swallows Burton Marsh From Point 
Swifts Burton Marsh From Point 
Chiffchaff Along Path To IMF
Common Sandpiper x1 IMF
Great Egrets x3 IMF
Whitethroat Birdcrop Field
Little Grebes Bridge Pool
Great C Grebes 2Adult +1Chick Bridge Pool
Reed Warbler Near Marsh Covert Hide
Blackcap (F) Marsh Covert Wood
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool
Med-Gulls 1ADULT 2Juv 1-1st Sum M- Scrape
Avocets x17 Main Scrape
Ruff x2 (M) Main Scrape
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Little Owl Burton Point Seen From Cycle Path

Woolston Eyes
Garganey-Juvenile

Parkgate
Merlin,13 Greenshank and 6 Spoonbill-Boathouse Flash

Caldy Wildfowl Collection
2,960 Black-tailed Godwit 

Astbury Mere
12 Raven-Over

Pickerings Pasture
2 Yellow Legged Gull

21st July 2019
Meols
Whimbrel-By groyne

Burton RSPB
Great White Egret and 2 Little Owl-From Burton Point

Sandbach Flashes
Avocet,3 Common tern,2 Green sandpiper,2 Wood Sandpiper and a Common Sandpiper-Elton Hall Flash

Woolston Eyes
Garganey-Juvenile,Greenshank,Green Sandpiper,Black Tailed Godwit and a Dunlin

Marbury Country Park
Greenshank-Neumann's Flash

Tatton Park
3 Common sandpiper

Hilbre Island
4 Goosander,3 Raven,2 Willow Warbler and 650 Sandwich Tern

Parkgate
10 Greenshank and 6 Spoonbill-Boathouse Flash

Scholar Green
13 Mandarin Duck-Over

20th July 2019
Burton RSPB
Swifts Burton Marsh From Point 
Swallows Burton Point 
Whitethroat By Railway Bridge 
Dunlin x3 IMF
Great C Grebes 2Adult +1Chick Bridge Pool
Little Grebes x2 Bridge Pool
Reed Warbler By Reedbed Screen
Blackcap (M) By Burton Mere
Green Sandpiper x1 Reception Pool
Buzzard Over Main Scrape
Ruff x2 (M) Main Scrape
Avocets x16 Main Scrape
Med-Gulls 2 Adult 1 Juvenile Main Scrape
Great Egret Right Of Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier Over IMF

Caldy Wildfowl Collection
2,800 Black-tailed Godwit 

Parkgate
3 Greenshank on Boathouse Flash,5 Spoonbill and 6 Great White Egret

Meols-Dove Point
3 Common Sandpiper

Hoylake
20+ Manx Shearwater- over high tide.

Thurstaston
67+ Whimbrel-Flying out of estuary

Sandbach Flashes
Avocet,2 Common Tern,3 Green Sandpiper and 2 Egyptian Geese

Pickerings Pasture
Yellow Legged Gull-Adult and 2 second summers

Woolston Eyes
Garganey-Juvenile and 7 Black Necked Grebes-John morgan Hide and Red Kite-Over No3 bed

Frodsham Marshes
Knot-Summer Plumage-N06 Tank and Hobby-Over