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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast (4 Viewers)
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chris butterworth
aka The Person Named Above
Reminds me of the time I left my car on the carpark by the Marine Lake in West Kirby :-C. At least the one in the photo didn't start to float off towards the USA!!!! :t:
Chris
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Lol :-O
I can beat that Chris..... I tried to drive the Causeway on Shell Island about 8 years ago as the tide came in. I had watched the 4x4s do it with relative ease, didnt think my "very low" sporty number would hit a dip in the causeway. My horror as the seawater submerged my bonnet.
Picture 10pm, pitch black rushing tide and a family wading back down the causeway that we had just driven up, then picture a return after high tide to see where the water line had been upto on the car...... just above door handles.
:-C
Can laugh a little now
3 Garganey near Decca Pools this afternoon. Two nice drakes and a duck although distant. 4 Avocet seen here and later at IMF. Whilst watching the Garganey a small party of Bewick Swans did a fly past.
If previous years are to go by N Wirral should get a Garganey or a Wheatear any day soon.
Spring is here!
If previous years are to go by N Wirral should get a Garganey or a Wheatear any day soon.
Spring is here!
Cheshire Birder
Well-known member
Glad to hear the Avocets are back!! Hopefully the Garganey will linger till the weekend.
LRP reported at Leasowe on 2nd March. Glauc Gull again at Sandbach and Bittern at Budworth Mere yesterday. Three Garganey still present this morning.
CB
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Jane Turner
Well-known member
Love that Dipper Photo!
Cheshire Birder
Well-known member
Much better than my shot of Dipper that I took a couple of weeks ago!!
Ring Ousel only 2-3 weeks away!!
CB
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Cheers Jane & CB
Looking forward to the returning Ousels
Looking forward to the returning Ousels
Rob Smallwood
Well-known member
There'll be some Tippexing going on somewhere!
gareth_blockley
Smile people
Its a shame they weren't Tundra bean geese but I'm relieved as I saw 16 Pink feet on the mersey on Thursday!
Wish I was still up there there's loads of birds in Cheshire at the moment.
Gareth
Wish I was still up there there's loads of birds in Cheshire at the moment.
Gareth
Gronk08
Well-known member
Hi All
Spent the day around Burton Marsh and Inner Marsh today with my better half.
First off headed for Burton Marsh to try for the Garganey, which was our target bird for the day, as we both need this for our life list.
Thanks to a chap down by the marsh we were pointed in the right direction and managed to pick up both the male and female, a really smart looking duck. Unfortuantly we missed the Jack Snipe flushed by a passing Hen Harrier as that would have been another lifer.
Also managed to see a sibgle Spoonbill and Bewick and Whooper Swans down on the marsh before heading back up the hill to Inner Marsh.
At Inner Marsh we managed to spot a Spotted Red Shank in with the Red Shanks.
All the usual suspects were also present.
Tim.
Spent the day around Burton Marsh and Inner Marsh today with my better half.
First off headed for Burton Marsh to try for the Garganey, which was our target bird for the day, as we both need this for our life list.
Thanks to a chap down by the marsh we were pointed in the right direction and managed to pick up both the male and female, a really smart looking duck. Unfortuantly we missed the Jack Snipe flushed by a passing Hen Harrier as that would have been another lifer.
Also managed to see a sibgle Spoonbill and Bewick and Whooper Swans down on the marsh before heading back up the hill to Inner Marsh.
At Inner Marsh we managed to spot a Spotted Red Shank in with the Red Shanks.
All the usual suspects were also present.
Tim.
Cheshire Birder
Well-known member
Shame they were not Bean Geese but at least they have been correctly re-identified.
Was down at Denhall Lane, Burton yesterday 86 mixed Bewick's/Whooper Swans and of course the pair of Garganey (showing well in the heat haze!!). Then moved to Neston where I had one of the Spoonbills off the Old Quay. Ringtail Hen Harrier and several Rock Pipits were also in the area.
CB
Cheshire Birder
Well-known member
Highlights from today - pair of Garganey still at Burton, Wheatear at Arclid (nr Sandbach), LRP at Frodsham (for 2nd day), Bittern again at IMF and LSW again at Moore NR. Possible Baltic Gull and Glaucous Gull at Richmond Bank yesterday.
CB
CB
Pitvar
Well-known member
Brief stroll around Marbury today saw a really good mix of birds with highlights being Kingfisher [fly past], Jay from five feet away at the woodland hide, two Nuthatch, treecreepers, Goldcrest [in the Yews just before the woodland hide] and male Bullfinch in the car park.
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HughPulsford
County Bird Recorder Cheshire and Wirral
Hi Re the Dipper picture, as you can see this is a colour rnged individual. South Manchester Ringing Group in conjuction with Professor Stuart Sharpe at Sheffield UniV are mid way through a BTO RAS ( retrapping adults for Survival) project on Dippers. The blue colour ring above the BTO metal denotes the river (in this case Clough Brook) and the colour ring combination on the left leg, which territory/pair it was first trapped at. This is a male who was paired with a female by the picnic site near Yarnshaw Hill in 2009. The colour ringing means we dont have to try and recatch the adults as they can be identified from excellent pictures like the one posted.
At Wildboarclough, the Dippers ( and there are up to six pairs down to the A54 bridge from Bottom of the Oven) tend not to spend all winter on territory, most birds decend to lower levels during the winter months. It seems to be the experienced females who get back to key territories (mostly nest boxes under the bridges) first, and then lure a passing male as they move back up the brook ! So the girls are very much in charge in the Dippering world of Clough Brook at least! Having said that we did have one male who manged two females and two broods under adjacent bridges 100m apart in 2009, and even manged a second brood with one of them, who was actually his daughter from a previous season. Would make a good soap opera I think !
HP
At Wildboarclough, the Dippers ( and there are up to six pairs down to the A54 bridge from Bottom of the Oven) tend not to spend all winter on territory, most birds decend to lower levels during the winter months. It seems to be the experienced females who get back to key territories (mostly nest boxes under the bridges) first, and then lure a passing male as they move back up the brook ! So the girls are very much in charge in the Dippering world of Clough Brook at least! Having said that we did have one male who manged two females and two broods under adjacent bridges 100m apart in 2009, and even manged a second brood with one of them, who was actually his daughter from a previous season. Would make a good soap opera I think !
HP
Jane Turner
Well-known member
Spring sort of arrived at Red Rocks today. A small movement of Siskins, a Goldcrest and a spluttering as opposed to singing Chiffchaff. There has been a wintering Chiffy so its perhaps a little optimistic to suggest this was an trans-saharan migrant. Reed Buntings are singing (3 males) There were also a couple of Long-tailed Tits, the usual Water Rails and a Peregrine sat on the beach
Jane Turner
Well-known member
95 Redwing and 20 Blackbirds acting like migrants in a field off Park Lane, Meols this pm
