CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 2ND MARCH 2017

WIRRAL
Parkgate-Short-eared Owl,Hen Harrier (ringtail) and Marsh Harrier (fem).

CHESHIRE
Gowy Meadows-Juvenile Glaucous gull and Yellow legged gull.

Sandbach Flashes-Pumphouse flash-Juvenile Glaucous gull.

Sandbach-23 Waxwings-Lodge road.

Neumanns Flash-1st Winter Caspian Gull
MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PINE BUNTING-Beyond end of Kerver Lane,Dunnington-N.Yorks.

EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-1st Winter male-Skinningrove-Cleveland.

PACIFIC DIVER-Juvenile-North Pool-East Chevington.

BLUE ROCK THRUSH-Adult male-at Fisher Close.Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

GLAUCOUS WINGED GULL-3RD winter-Fair Isle-Shetland.

OVER HALF OF THE WORLD'S CURLEW AND GODWIT SPECIES FACE EXTINCTION

A ground-breaking new assessment, published today [1 March 2017] in the journal Bird Conservation International, has revealed that habitat loss could lead to the extinction of a number of the world's curlew and godwit species.CLICK ON LINK

BIRDGUIDES REVIEW OF RARE BIRDS THIS WEEK IN BRITAIN 22ND-28TH FEBRUARY 2017

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BY JOSH JONES

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CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 1ST MARCH 2017

WIRRAL
Parkgate-2 Marsh Harrier,2 Hen Harrier (ringtail and male),Short-eared Owl and 2 Great White Egret.

Parkgate-9 Waxwing by Boathouse pub.

Burton RSPB-13 Avocet,3 Ruff and a Merlin.

CHESHIRE
Gowy Meadows-3 Glaucous Gulls and 2 Iceland Gulls.

Tarporley-Waxwing-50 to northeast at Oulton Park Race Circuit by Fogarty Moss Centre.

Maw Green Landfill Site-Glaucous gull-adult and 1st-winter.

Sandbach-Waxwing-39 still at Abbey Road/Lodge Road.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
AMERICAN COOT-still at Loch nam Feithean-Balranald RSPB-N Uist-Outer Hebrides.

PINE BUNTING-Beyond end of Kerver Lane,Dunnington-N.Yorks.

EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-1st Winter male-Skinningrove-Cleveland.

PACIFIC DIVER-Juvenile-North Pool-East Chevington.

PINE BUNTING-Male still in paddock by Saxon Shore Way c.300m to NNE of Little Murston-Kent.