North West Bank Holiday Birding (1 Viewer)

With the wife away for a few days, I managed to spend pretty much a full day birding at some of my favourite spots here in the North West.

Fist stop, Martin Mere, where amongst other things there were:
2 Avocets - highlight of my day, as they're birds I've never seen before.
Oystercatchers
Ringed Plovers
Lapwings
Black Tailed Godwits
Greylag Geese
Canada Geese
Pink Footed Geese
Whooper Swans
Cormorants
Redshank
More Robins than you could shake a stick at!

Then, off to Mere Sands where I saw:
Great Crested Grebe
Little Grebe
2 x Great Spotted Woodpecker

Last stop, RSPB Marshside, where there were:
More Avocets (at least a dozen, but there had been up to 2 dozen earlier in the day)
Golden Plover
Goldeneye
Black Tailed Godwit

All in all, the best day's birding I've had in ages. Roll on the next Bank Holiday!

Jazzbasser,glad you had a good day,thumbs up for the Northwest.

Yes sounds good doesn't it.

Our PF Geese & whoopers seem to have already flown north. Haven't seen them about for a couple of weeks

Hi Jazzbasser

I managed to get to MM as well yesterday and have the same list as you. We got some great views of a sparrowhawk by NWW hide. There seemed to be quite a few little plovers all over.

This year the numbers of Robins seems a lot more than normal. I was finding them every 10 yards or so.

My daughter saw Avocets for the first time so she was made up and didn't they make themselves easy to see. Last time I saw some they were in amongst a load of Gulls and it took me ages to pick them out. These seem to have been around there for few days now. There seems to be a fair few around the area as well.

Sounds like an absoluteley great day
I wish i was there

Are you coming to the 'Oop North' bash, Jazzbasser? Looks like it could be quite good, especially for adding members to a tick list.

Oop North? I like the sound of that. Tell me more...