Friday, June 02, 2017
WWT:STILTS BREED SUCCESSFULLY AT WELNEY
For the first time ever, a pair of Black winged stilts have nested and raised chicks on the reserve at Welney Wetland Centre WWT. This is also a first for any of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserves across the country.CLICK ON LINK
Thursday, June 01, 2017
IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF-KELSALL-CHESHIRE
News of this bird came out yesterday so I was itching to go and see it.It didn't take long before the bird was located on arrival in full song.The Iberian chiffchaff eventually showed well after half an hour and was clearly doing a circuit around the area.Plenty of birders on site had managed to get good sonogram recordings of the bird and the I'D looked spot on.
The Iberian chiffchaff (Phylloscopus ibericus) is a species of leaf warbler endemic to Portugal, Spain and North Africa, west of a line stretching roughly from the western Pyrenees via the mountains of central Spain to the Mediterranean.This was my second Iberian chiffchaff for Cheshire and Wirral the last one being found by my good friend Phil Woollen at Dibbinsdale LNR back in early May 2004.
CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 1ST JUNE 2017
WIRRAL
Decca pools-2 Spoonbill,5+ Avocet and 120 Black-tailed Godwit and 2 Grasshopper Warbler along Denhall Lane.
Burton RSPB-Great White Egret.
CHESHIRE
Congleton-Quail
Kelsall-Iberian Chiffchaff-Male still singing late morning at sharp bend c.250m down track north of T-junction between Tirley Lane and Heaths Lane.
Decca pools-2 Spoonbill,5+ Avocet and 120 Black-tailed Godwit and 2 Grasshopper Warbler along Denhall Lane.
Burton RSPB-Great White Egret.
CHESHIRE
Congleton-Quail
Kelsall-Iberian Chiffchaff-Male still singing late morning at sharp bend c.250m down track north of T-junction between Tirley Lane and Heaths Lane.
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