Jane, how do you think Wednesday morning is shaping-up?
Should be ok...my bet would be more birds than Tues, but not as close... Hilbre would be a great choice
Tues
Viewing WNWThese are my current best guesses for when... bearing in mind predicting wind patterns is not reliable, but 2-3 days ahead are usually pretty accurate
Tuesday: Tide 8.8m @ 10.15
Viewing WNW 7 am overnight tide 10:15 so a certain chance of small-medium Nos Petrels on N Wirral. Any squalls will help (the really big numbers will probably be at sea further north). Wader at high tide round the new Lifeboat station might be worth a look
NW: Still WNW 9-7 decreasing to 4 so should still put some birds into the Irish sea
Wednesday Tide 9.2m 11.04
Viewing NW 4-5 locally. Enough to keep petrels in view -probably not in the river at N Brighton, but out at sea. High tide at the gunsite for Leach's thataren't struggling andHoylake prom for waders (they start arriving 2 hours before the tide) If the weather is squallybad vis will bring all seabirds in closer... Dovepoint at high tide if you are not on Hilbre and wantmore variety
Feed: NW 6-7 enough toputmore LPs into the Irish sea
Thursday Tide 9.5m @ 11.47
Viewing sW 4-7 Enough to keep petrels close to Lancs, butmost of Wirral willbe out of play - Hoylake shore will go under apart from King's Gap
Feed: variable 6-7 - could helpor hinder
Friday Tide:12.26 @ 9.6m
Viewing:NW 2-4 time to look for waders - Hoylake shore will go under apart from King's Gap or perhaps Nearactic Landbirds at Leasowe!
Feed: NW 4-5 so probably a halt in the feed.
Saturday Tide 13.03 @ 9.5m
Viewing: W-sw 3-4 definately wader tme!
Feed .Big system arriving from the west - but blowing S-SW.
