MEGA BIRD NEWS:2nd May 2026-Lesser Kestrel-Cornwall-Croft Pascoe Pool-Adult male still showing well in roadside bush at 50.0280, -5.1723; very limited parking, park considerately in layby (TR12 6SN) and walk through woods to end of plantation to view-Zitting Cisticola-Suffolk-Walberswick NNR-Displaying male again over saltmarsh between beach and Dunwich River; use Cliff Field car park (IP18 6TX; card/app payment only) and walk south-west along beach for c 1km to view from 52.3063, 1.6560. View only from the seawall, do not walk out on the raised bank-Stejneger's Scoter-Fife-East Wemyss-2nd-summer drake still on sea; use Weavers Court car park (KY1 4RT) and view from Wemyss Caves
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4.3.24

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS


3rd  Eurasian Bittern-Budworth Mere 14 Cattle Egret-Ince Marshes Green Winged Teal-Mollington 4 Long-tailed Duck, 2 Eider. 3 Red-throated Diver. 9 Razorbill, 10+ Little Gull and 1500 Common Scoter off East Hoyle Bank-Hoylake 30+ Little Gull feeding offshore late afternoon-Leasowe Lighthouse. 2nd  Eurasian Bittern-Budworth Mere 12 Goosander in channel by groyne - Meols Shore. 1st  Eurasian Bittern-Budworth Mere 4 Little Gull (3 ad and 1 1st sum) Leasowe Gunsite Great Northern Diver - Hilbre 29th-Western Cattle Egret-14 again in field by Marsh Lane Eurasian Spoonbill-Circling high and moving north-west over Hale Marsh18 Avocet over - Burton Marsh 28th-Eurasian Bittern-Budworth Mere 2 Black Necked Grebe-Woolston Eyes Short-eared Owl and  Hen HarrierDenhall Quay 12 Little Gull feeding off Leasowe Gunsite c10,000 Common Scoter off North Wirral 27th Waxwing-still c 100m before Bridge 176 by Trent and Mersey Canal 26th Caspian Gull-Rosethern Mere Western Cattle Egret-6 again in field by Marsh Lane 25th Eurasian Bittern-Budworth Mere Kumliens Gull-3rd-winter again at WSR Recycling Centre, Ditton Road 4 Waxwing At junction of Grammar School Lane and Hinderton Drive-Newton Little Ringed Plover-1st-winter still in flooded field north of Sow Brook Playing Fields-Lymm

Green Winged Teal
(C)Phil Wollen