Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast (3 Viewers)

[Jane Turner]

I'd put money that the skua spp was a Long-tailed

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Unfortunately we will never know since the observer only saw it briefly and it disappeared as he was grabbing his camera.

CB

 

[Youngbirder35]

Had one of the GWE over Burton Mere Wetlands today as well as 3 Curlew Sandpipers.

 

[halftwo]

Marsh harrier (juv), Peregrine (juv fem), Lanner type (not the same one as at IMF: smallish, slim bird, thin brown moustachials, very white face, buffy forecrown, pale nape patch, brown mantle & wings (pale fringes); barred brown, pale-tipped tail.

Also a fem-type Red-crested pochard, 1 Little stint, Golden plovers, 100s Lapwings.

 

[sid ashton]

Marsh harrier (juv), Peregrine (juv fem), Lanner type (not the same one as at IMF: smallish, slim bird, thin brown moustachials, very white face, buffy forecrown, pale nape patch, brown mantle & wings (pale fringes); barred brown, pale-tipped tail.

Also a fem-type Red-crested pochard, 1 Little stint, Golden plovers, 100s Lapwings.

Were all of these at Frodsham Marsh H ?

 

[captaincarot]

is this donkey stand flash some bizarre new name for t'old baths carpark or is it somewhere else?

 

[Bananafishbones]

is this donkey stand flash some bizarre new name for t'old baths carpark or is it somewhere else?

Hi CC it's the old seafront wall in front of the ice cream parlour where everyone eats their fish and chips, it has a few benches.

 

[captaincarot]

Hi CC it's the old seafront wall in front of the ice cream parlour where everyone eats their fish and chips, it has a few benches.

cheers dave :t:

 

[Cheshire Birder]

is this donkey stand flash some bizarre new name for t'old baths carpark or is it somewhere else?

If your going to look for the Great White Egrets, one bird is regularly feeding in the channels beyond the flash. It has been joined by a second bird recently.

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Marsh harrier (juv), Peregrine (juv fem), Lanner type (not the same one as at IMF: smallish, slim bird, thin brown moustachials, very white face, buffy forecrown, pale nape patch, brown mantle & wings (pale fringes); barred brown, pale-tipped tail.

Also a fem-type Red-crested pochard, 1 Little stint, Golden plovers, 100s Lapwings.

Which area of No6 was the RCP favouring? Was it associating with anything else?

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - 3 Leach's Petrels and Long-tailed Skua in the River Mersey Mouth; 3 Leach's Petrels at Leasowe Gunsite; Leach's Petrel at Wallasey Lifeguard Station; Red-crested Pochard, Little Stint and Marsh Harrier at Frodsham; Black-necked Grebe at Woolston Eyes; Curlew Sandpiper at Pickering's Pasture; 4 Little Egrets and Jack Snipe at Moore; 4 Whooper Swans at Burton Mere Wetlands;

CB

 

[halftwo]

Sorry folks - yes this was all at No.6 tank.

While we were there all the duck were highly mobile, (what with all the BOPs present!) and the RCP was moving around with the rest. When we last saw it it was not too far from the SW corner, but had spent most of its time NW. Loosely associating with the teal & Wigeon.

 

[captaincarot]

quick question, what tide hight is needed to flood parkgate,

there's some decent ones look to be coming round 26th to 28th, but i can't for the life of me remember what height jane said it needed to flood.


i also now have less than a month left to achieve my personal target of all the british grebe species within 12 months, i still need red necked, so if anyone hears of one i would greatly appreciate hearing about it too.

 

[Wimpy]

The last one I was at was close to or just over 10metres.

 

[bradinho]

quick question, what tide hight is needed to flood parkgate,

there's some decent ones look to be coming round 26th to 28th, but i can't for the life of me remember what height jane said it needed to flood.


i also now have less than a month left to achieve my personal target of all the british grebe species within 12 months, i still need red necked, so if anyone hears of one i would greatly appreciate hearing about it too.

Those tides are worth a shot ... depends on weather conditions though. Low pressure is pretty vital.

 

[deeestuary]

quick question, what tide hight is needed to flood parkgate,

there's some decent ones look to be coming round 26th to 28th, but i can't for the life of me remember what height jane said it needed to flood.


i also now have less than a month left to achieve my personal target of all the british grebe species within 12 months, i still need red necked, so if anyone hears of one i would greatly appreciate hearing about it too.

Don't expect it to come up to Parkgate unless it is at least 9.8m. The stronger the wind (SW to NW) and the lower the atmos pressure the more likely it is to cover the marsh. Most 10m tides and above do cover the marsh, but if wind is in the east with high pressure, probably won't.
Tides are Oct 27th, 9.9m, 1151hrs. Oct 28th, 10.0m, 1236hrs. Oct 29th, 9.9m, 1320hrs.
I've known a 9.6m tide come roaring over the marsh with a gale and intense low pressure, and a 10.2m during warm calm weather not to come anywhere near!
Tide always comes in both nearer and sooner at Riverbank Road, Heswall, where there is a great view of the marsh from the car park. So on a day it looks like it won't reach Parkgate, try there.

 

[Rob Smallwood]

i also now have less than a month left to achieve my personal target of all the british grebe species within 12 months, i still need red necked, so if anyone hears of one i would greatly appreciate hearing about it too.

How far are you prepared to travel?

 

[Cheshire Birder]

quick question, what tide hight is needed to flood parkgate,

there's some decent ones look to be coming round 26th to 28th, but i can't for the life of me remember what height jane said it needed to flood.


i also now have less than a month left to achieve my personal target of all the british grebe species within 12 months, i still need red necked, so if anyone hears of one i would greatly appreciate hearing about it too.

10 metres and an onshore wind is preferable but lower tides with strong onshore winds will still flood the marsh.

As for R.N.Grebe in Cheshire, well don't hold your breath. Best chance is over the border in Manchester or Lancashire.

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Pomarine Skua, 15 Leach's Petrels, Sabine's Gull, Puffin, 109 Kittiwakes, 19 Arctic Skuas, 2 Long-tailed Ducks, Velvet Scoter, 500+ Common Scoter, 14 Guillemots, 9 Barnacle Goose, 4 Arctic Terns, 3 Razorbills, 17 Sandwich Terns, 47 Common Terns, Great Skua, Little Gull and Fulmar at Hoylake Shore; 10 Leach's Petrel at New Brighton; 4 Whooper Swans at Burton Mere Wetlands; 7 Brent Geese at West Kirby Shore

Yesterday – Common Tern at Alsager Mere

CB

 

[captaincarot]

How far are you prepared to travel?

between clumber park and bridlington in the east and congleton an leighton moss on the west roughly