Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast (1 Viewer)

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Caspian Tern at Acre Nook SQ; Turnstone, Green Sandpiper, Whimbrel and 4 Common Sandpipers at Frodsham; 5 Crossbills at West Kirby; 10 Little Terns and 800+ Sandwich Terns at Red Rocks; c730 Sandwich Terns and 165 Common Terns at Hoylake; Greenshank at Leasowe; 8 Green Sandpipers and Corn Bunting at Burton Mere Wetlands;

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[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Caspian Tern at Acre Nook SQ; unconfirmed report of a Spoonbill at Burton Mere Wetlands also 380+ Little Egrets roosting this week; 100's Sandwich Terns, 2 Whimbrel and several Little terns at Red Rocks; 4 Whimbrel at Leasowe; Arctic Skua, Little Tern and c30 Gannets off Hoylake; Whimbrel at Neumann's Flash; Hobby and Green Sandpiper at Frodsham;

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[Himalaya]

1 juvenile Hobby at Risley, at least 2 Yellowhammer and a pale Buzzard which looked very beautiful.

 

[HughPulsford]

1 juvenile Hobby at Risley, at least 2 Yellowhammer and a pale Buzzard which looked very beautiful.

End July is very early for a juvenile Hobby, most wont be out the nest till mid/late August, particularly given their later than normal start this year ?

 

[Himalaya]

That's what I thought but the guy present said it would be this years. Maybe it was just a year old bird, providing they are still brown? Then again I know of a pair of which one was a brown bird and it was breeding. The pair I know of fledge around the 3rd week of August and arrive around the 5th of May.

End July is very early for a juvenile Hobby, most wont be out the nest till mid/late August, particularly given their later than normal start this year ?

 

[Jane Turner]

Good numbers of terns and Manxies off Hoylake, though haze is bad.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

July 29th - Caspian Tern at Chelford SQ's; 5 Green Sandpipers at Burton Mere Wetlands;

July 28th - Caspian Tern and Common Tern at Chelford SQ's;

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[Cheshire Birder]

July 31st - Wood Sandpiper and Hobby at Burton Mere Wetlands; Wood Sandpiper, 600 Swifts and 4 Whimbrel at Woolston Eyes; Spotted Redshank at Hoylake; Greenshank, Whimbrel, Wheatear and 135 Swallows at Leasowe;

July 30th - Wood Sandpiper and Hobby at Burton Mere Wetlands also 8 Spotted Redshanks at Inner Marsh Farm; Wood Sandpiper at Frodsham; 9 Yellow-legged Gulls at Sandbach Flashes; Greenshank and 3 Whimbrel at Leasowe;

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[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Wood Sandpiper at Woolston Eyes; 7 Green Sandpipers at Marbury No1 tank;

Aug 1st - Pectoral Sandpiper at Burton Mere Wetlands; Wood Sandpiper and 3 Green Sandpipers at Frodsham; 480 Sandwich Terns, 3 Little Terns and 2 Manx Shearwaters at Leasowe;

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[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Pectoral Sandpiper, 2 Marsh Harriers and 7 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands; Wood Sandpiper and 2 Little Egrets at Woolston Eyes; Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpipers and leucistic Swallow at Frodsham; Wood Sandpiper at Hale; Little Grebe at Hoylake; Crossbill at Poynton;

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[Himalaya]

Also a large Hen Harrier with a white rump.....at IMF today (Saturday 3rd August at 5.10pm

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - 2 Black-necked Grebes at Frodsham and one at Houghton Green Flash; 2 Curlew Sandpipers at Heswall Shore; 12 Little Terns, 230 Sandwich Terns, Arctic Skua and Greenshank at Leasowe; 7 Spotted Redshanks at Inner Marsh Farm;

CB

 

[David Kennedy]

Leucistic Magpie In Runcorn

From about 23rd July a Leucistic magpie has regularly been seen feeding in and under the cherry trees in Ascot Ave Higher Runcorn, opposite the shops.

Its black feathers are tan coloured, and its legs and beak are pink. Its eye is still black as it should be. The tail is white not black.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Pectoral Sandpiper and Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands; Red-crested Pochard at Lyme Park;

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[Cheshire Birder]

Aug 5th - Wood Sandpiper, Hobby and c2000 Swifts at Woolston Eyes; Mediterranean Gull at Moreton; Whimbrel at Thurstaston; c10 Whimbrel and Hobby at Frodsham;

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[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - 2 Black-necked Grebes, 2 Pintail, 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Whimbrel at Frodsham; Yellow-legged Gull at Hoylake; 7 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands; Hobby at Burton Mere Wetlands and Risley;

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[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Turtle Dove reported at Neumann's Flash; 2 Black-necked Grebes and Redstart at Frodsham; 15 Little Terns, c520 Sandwich Terns and Yellow-legged Gull at Hoylake; 600 Sandwich Terns and 20 Little Terns at Hilbre; 7 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands; escaped Laughing Dove at Macclesfield;

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[David Kennedy]

LEUCISTIC MAGPIE STILL IN RUNCORN

This young magpie is still feeding in Ascot Ave Runcorn in the cherry trees over the road from the few shops there.

Early mornings are most reliable for sightings. It sports pink legs and beak, with brown, tan and white feathers!

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - 490+ Sandwich Terns and 31 Little Terns at Red Rocks; 5 Green Sandpipers and Greenshank at Marbury CP; 3 Greenshanks and Hobby at Woolston Eyes;

CB

 

[HughPulsford]

Today - Turtle Dove reported at Neumann's Flash; 2 Black-necked Grebes and Redstart at Frodsham; 15 Little Terns, c520 Sandwich Terns and Yellow-legged Gull at Hoylake; 600 Sandwich Terns and 20 Little Terns at Hilbre; 7 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands; escaped Laughing Dove at Macclesfield;

CB

photos of the presumed escaped Laughing Dove on 5th August near Broken Cross in Macclesfield. Interestingly it is a juvenile/1st summer. Not been seen since despite searching.
cheers
Hugh