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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast (1 Viewer)
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Upland Birder
Birding On The Edge
Saturday afternoon I went up to Macclesfield Forrest and saw Heron, Cormorant, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Long Tailed Tit flock with Goldcrest. Also saw a Red Deer Stag standing in water at Trentabank Reservoir drinking and grazing. It was there for some time.
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chris butterworth
aka The Person Named Above
Gt Nthn Diver still on the Marine Lake at West Kirby, Snow Bunting seem to be hanging around by Pinfold Steps ( between West Kirby prom and Red Rocks), and at least 3 Water Rail inthe reedbed at Red Rocks today, I also had a flock of 20+ possible Waxwing over ( too far away by the time I got my scope on them!)
Chris
Chris
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Quick trip to Jacksons Brickworks in Poynton at 3.10pm getting dusky at this time with a little drizzle, really quiet but for a pair of Bullfinch showing really well and loads of Blackbirds............ otherwise its back to my feeders for the Coal tits.
Dave
Dave
Hi All,
Not posted for a while as i haven't been out much but tomorrow will be my first winter visit to my atlas tetrad near Wynbury (between Crewe and Nantwich).
I have just taken posession of the newly published Cheshire bird atlas and what a magnificent job has been done by all involved. Its enormous (700 pages & very heavy)! and well worth a read. Its also one to show the little'uns as i covered a few tetrads and my name is published!.
Has great views of six Red Kites from the train just south of Oxford on friday.
Jason
Not posted for a while as i haven't been out much but tomorrow will be my first winter visit to my atlas tetrad near Wynbury (between Crewe and Nantwich).
I have just taken posession of the newly published Cheshire bird atlas and what a magnificent job has been done by all involved. Its enormous (700 pages & very heavy)! and well worth a read. Its also one to show the little'uns as i covered a few tetrads and my name is published!.
Has great views of six Red Kites from the train just south of Oxford on friday.
Jason
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inyoniUK
Active member
Had a good day out on the Wirral today. High tide at King's Gap, Hoylake:
thousands of Knot milling about, seemed quite jumpy but no raptors spotted. Redshank, Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Sanderling, Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, a few Black-tailed Godwit and one Bar-tailed Godwit (showing the remains of his summer plumage). Bonus was 3 Snow Buntings.
Then went to West Kirby and saw the Great Northern Diver on the Marine Lake.
Finally Inner Marsh Farm: fairly quiet but among the usual suspects saw Fieldfare, Snipe, Kestrel, Buzzard, Pintail and 2 very distant female Goldeneyes. Bonus was seeing Water Rail close to the hide - wading (and on one occasion leaping!) across the open water areas between reed clumps.
thousands of Knot milling about, seemed quite jumpy but no raptors spotted. Redshank, Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Sanderling, Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, a few Black-tailed Godwit and one Bar-tailed Godwit (showing the remains of his summer plumage). Bonus was 3 Snow Buntings.
Then went to West Kirby and saw the Great Northern Diver on the Marine Lake.
Finally Inner Marsh Farm: fairly quiet but among the usual suspects saw Fieldfare, Snipe, Kestrel, Buzzard, Pintail and 2 very distant female Goldeneyes. Bonus was seeing Water Rail close to the hide - wading (and on one occasion leaping!) across the open water areas between reed clumps.
Called in at Parkgate late afternoon. At least 3 ringtails plus a stunning young adult male (still a hint of brown on it's back). Could easily have been 5 ringtails - bit difficult to keep an eye on the roost whilst watching the male. Also 4 short-eared owls, a barn owl and a pair of stonechats. Hoping to catch up with the snow buntings and GN diver tomorrow.
gareth_blockley
Smile people
Out at Frodsham marsh today. There was a single Scaup still on the lagoon, 2 Ruff still around, female Merlin (probably followed Dunlin as they cam in at high tide), c30 Twite feeding on the vegetated part of the lagoon (i only saw part of the flock) and 5 Redpoll hanging around wth the Goldfinch.
Gareth
Gareth
From Richard Smith's excellent website - "November 16, 2008:
25 Short-eared Owl on Burton Marsh this afternoon, this must be the highest ever!!!" More info http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/ Normally the counts at Burton are carried out by the RSPB's site manager and given the high numbers recorded elsewhere on the estuary I suspect this is a very accurate record.
25 Short-eared Owl on Burton Marsh this afternoon, this must be the highest ever!!!" More info http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/ Normally the counts at Burton are carried out by the RSPB's site manager and given the high numbers recorded elsewhere on the estuary I suspect this is a very accurate record.
gareth_blockley
Smile people
At New brighton today i had 15 Purple sands go to roost on the pontoon at the marine lake, also 2 or 3 Merlins around - 2(m+f) seen in the morning and female seen in the afternoon.
Burton marsh late afternoon loads of SEO's!! I had 23 in one sweep across. Also around 2 Barn owls, ringtail Hen harrier and Merlin. I didn't see the Marsh harrier.
Gareth
Burton marsh late afternoon loads of SEO's!! I had 23 in one sweep across. Also around 2 Barn owls, ringtail Hen harrier and Merlin. I didn't see the Marsh harrier.
Gareth
Gareth
You should submit this record to Cheshire rarities committee. Twite have not been recorded at Frodsham in such a large flock for many years! The site is watched regularly and I understand the last twite was 10 years ago. They are a very rare bird anywhere in Cheshire with a mximum 1 or 2 birds recorded annually.
gareth_blockley
Smile people
Will do. Have you got any details of where/to whom to send the record. I personally would only submit a record of 6 birds as thats all i saw, but 2 collegues saw the c30. I'd not seen Twite before but they were definately Twite, two prominent wing bar (in flight), quite gingery coloured and more subtle differrences in plumage colour, more rounded body shape and dumpy looking than Linnets.
If anyone wants to go have a look for them they were on the vegetated area of the slurry lagoon (no. 6 lagoon?) veiwed from the north side as the track bends round to the right (about here: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.s...=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&lm=0).
Gareth
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Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Middlewood Way (Higher Poynton)
10.30am - Noon
Redwing c20
Song Thrush 2
Great Tit 2
Wren 2
Long Tails 6
Blue Tit c12
Mallard 6
Morehen
Chaffinch 1M + 1F
Goldfinch 2
Jay 4
plus numerous Carrion, Magpie, Blackbird, Robin
10.30am - Noon
Redwing c20
Song Thrush 2
Great Tit 2
Wren 2
Long Tails 6
Blue Tit c12
Mallard 6
Morehen
Chaffinch 1M + 1F
Goldfinch 2
Jay 4
plus numerous Carrion, Magpie, Blackbird, Robin
gareth_blockley
Smile people
Twite
I feel I need to clarrify my posts about Twite, or the very probable lack of Twite. After discussions with Phil via PM it seems very unlikely that the birds i saw were Twite but Redpolls amongst a flock of Linnets. Which should have been obvious as i've seen loads of them before!
I will definately take more time over IDing possible Twite in the future and take more detailed notes!
Gareth
I feel I need to clarrify my posts about Twite, or the very probable lack of Twite. After discussions with Phil via PM it seems very unlikely that the birds i saw were Twite but Redpolls amongst a flock of Linnets. Which should have been obvious as i've seen loads of them before!
I will definately take more time over IDing possible Twite in the future and take more detailed notes!
Gareth
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Macclesfield Forest 09.45 - 12.45
On bottoms reservoir and macc forest:
G C Grebe 1
Little Grebe 4
BH Gull 6
Tufted 6m 4f
Pochard 1m
Coot 20+
Buzzard 4 All in the air together, then two singles later on
Kestrel 2
Cormorant 4 1 on water 3 in trees
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On bottoms reservoir and macc forest:
G C Grebe 1
Little Grebe 4
BH Gull 6
Tufted 6m 4f
Pochard 1m
Coot 20+
Buzzard 4 All in the air together, then two singles later on
Kestrel 2
Cormorant 4 1 on water 3 in trees
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