CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS

May 5th
49 Whimbrel on early morning tide, also 95 Grey Plover-Heswall Shore.
Grasshopper Warbler (Kerr's Field),2 Whinchat,3 Swift and a Cuckoo-Leasowe Lighthouse.
3 Cattle Egret in field and a Wood Warbler at Puddington 'dip'.
Highlights include a Cuckoo,Bittern and a Grasshopper Warbler-Burton Mere Wetlands.

May 4th
Whinchat-Male in flooded horse paddock opposite former Fiddle I’th Bagg pub, Old Alder Lane-Winwick

2 Arctic tern and 2 Turnstone-Flew though-Sandbach Flashes

Whimbrel-Flew west over N03 bed-Woolston Eyes

Ring Ouzel-Male flew east over Dairy House Farm viewed from Winsford Flash

Arctic Tern (sat on mud with waders),Kittiwake (over the main Dee channel),23 common Tern,27 Whimbrel, 230 Grey Plover,3,500 Dunlin and 1,000 Knot - Heswall Shore.

May 3rd
4 Eider (2 pairs) and a Hobby flew east - Hilbre.
Hen Harrier (ringtail) this evening - Parkgate.
1,000+ Knot and 295 Grey Plover on rising tide - Hoylake.

2 Ring Ouzel-Bickerton Hills

Black tailed godwit,2 Redshank,Common sandpiper,2 Little ringed plover,2 Dunlin,2 adult Mediterranean gull,14 Whimbrel,Grasshopper warbler,5 Avocet,Tree sparrow,3 Wheatear,2 Yellow wagtail and 4 Swifts-Marbury country park and surrounding area

Slavonian Grebe-Acre Nook sand quarry 

Hobby flew east over-Hilbre.

2 Snow geese,Curlew sandpiper,Spoonbill,Short eared owl and Little stint-Hale Shore

May 2nd

Whinchat,9 Whimbrel,4 Avocet-Ashtons Flash-Northwich

Whimbrel

(C)Fred Fearne

Smew-of unknown origin-Newchurch Common

Slavonian Grebe-Acre Nook sand quarry 

Spoonbill, 5 Grasshopper warbler,Whinchat, 2 Great White Egret,4 Avocet,3 Ruff,2 Little ringed ploverRP,2 Cetti’s warbler,4 Gropper,Garden Warbler,Short eared owl,2 Common Sandpiper,7 Whimbrel, 2 Channel Wagtail,Tree Pipit,Little Stint,Curlew Sand,3 Wheatear-Hale area

Spoonbill

(C)D.Craven

Short eared Owl

(C)D.Craven

 

2 Ring Ouzel-Bickerton Hill

12+ Spotted Redshank,2 Mediterranean Gull,2 Great Egret and a drake Garganey - Burton Mere Wetlands.
2 Whinchat - Red Rocks.
4 Cattle Egret - Burton Marsh.
140 Whimbrel on rising tide - Heswall Shore.

May 1st
Western Ospery-Over-Scholar Green

Spoonbill-Hale

Ring Ouzel by Old Baths, Spoonbill flew towards Neston reedbed,Grasshopper Warbler near Boathouse and a Marsh Harrier - Parkgate.
Golden Plover,Yellow Wagtail,Ring Ouzel,Common Redstart (male) along Park Lane,2 Whinchat,3 Siskin over and a Common Sandpiper - Leasowe Lighthouse.

Whinchat

(C)Allan Conlin

Wood Sandpiper-2 on small pool on east side of River Weaver-Bradley

173 Whimbrel at high tide (a Dee Estuary record high),2 Stonechat in bushes by cliff and a Whinchat on the marsh - Heswall Shore.

Whinchat,2 Grasshopper Warbler and good passage of 100+ hirundines this morning - Red Rocks.
6 Wheatear and 8 White Wagtail in ploughed field south of Meols.
2 Common Redstart - Hilbre.

Redstart

(C)Steve Williams