News broke this morning that Graham Jones (RSPB warden) at Burton had found a Wilson's phalarope on the main scrape. I made the fifteen-minute car journey to the site and was soon on this mega bird for Cheshire and Wirral.
Wilson's Phalarope(c)Steve Williams
Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolour) is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering in inland salt lakes near the Andes in Argentina.
They are passage migrants through Central America around March/April and again during September/October. The species is a rare vagrant to western Europe.
This was the twelve-year record for Cheshire and Wirral. These are the previous records:
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