Mar 9th Little Gull-Three adults still showing well at east end of Budworth Mere-Marbury Country park Little Gull-Sandbach Flashes 15 Waxwing-Mill farm-Two Mills Green-winged Teal (drake),swam along channel past Target Road lookout towards Sheldrakes on incoming tide-Heswall Shore 8th 2 Black Necked Grebe-Woolston Eyes 3 Long-tailed Duck off East Hoyle Bank - Hoylake Little Gull-Five adults still showing well at east end of Budworth Mere-Marbury Country park Little Gull-Sandbach Flashes Eurasian Bittern-Budworth Mere Marbury Country Park Caspian Gull-3rd-winter-again at WSR Recycling Centre, Ditton Road-Widnes 7th Eurasian Bittern and Sand Martin -Budworth Mere Marbury Country Park 2 Long-tailed Duck off East Hoyle Bank - Hoylake 5th Eurasian Bittern and Sand Martin -Budworth Mere Marbury Country Park 86 Little Gull-Gunsites-Leasowe 4 Short Eared Owl-Harp Inn Burton Marsh 1st Winter Female-Lesser Scaup-Woolston Eyes
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 Harrier- Denhall 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
