Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast (4 Viewers)

[Jane Turner]

Birds pouring in at Red Rocks.... looking like Wheatear might push 3 figs, 3 sightings of at least 2 (M/f) Ouzels, loads of hirundines - all three common species, 30+ Chiffs etc. I'm off back out - just had to return the car.

 

[Bananafishbones]

Sand Martins, House Martins, Wheatear, Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff all reached my patch here in East Cheshire.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Belated news for Apr 9th - Iceland Gull, Mediterranean Gull and up to 12 Little Ringed Plovers at Sandbach Flashes;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Glaucous Gull at Richmond Bank; Black-throated diver, 1000 Meadow Pipits and 5 Wheatears at Hilbre; 13 Waxwings at Sutton; Little Gull at New Brighton; 2 Avocets at Neumann's Flash; 3 Black-necked Grebes and 2 Bramblings at Woolston Eyes; Mediterranean Gull and 39 Ravens at Frodsham; Jack Snipe and 7 Wheatears at Meols; 390 Meadow Pipits at Red Rocks;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Osprey at Nantwich; Iceland Gull and 3 Ring Ouzels at Moreton; 2 Ring Ousels, 65 Wheatears, 42 Chiffchaffs, Brambling, Little Egret, 750 Meadow Pipits and Tree Pipit at Red Rocks; Redstart and Ring Ousel at Meols; Ring Ousel, 7 Wheatears and 2 White Wagtails at Leasowe; 10 Waxwings at Neston; Little Tern at New Brighton; 2 Tree Pipits at Hilbre; Common Sandpiper, Tree Pipit and 50+ Wheatears at Gilroy Nature Park/Hoylake Langfields; Little Gull, Scaup and 12 Chiffchaffs at Astbury SQ; 2 Marsh Harriers, Little Egret, Whooper Swan, 7 Wheatears and Brambling at Frodsham;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Firecrest, Marsh Harrier, Tree Pipit and 2 Brent Geese at Frodsham; 1-2 Black-throated Divers, 2 Ring Ousels, 1,515 Pink-footed Geese, Brambling and 12 Wheatears at Red Rocks; 3 Black-necked Grebes, Hobby, Marsh Harrier, Yellow Wagtail, 21 Chiffchaffs and 20 Bramblings at Woolston Eyes; 4-6 Ring Ousels and 2 Eider at Meols; 2 Black-necked Grebes at Houghton Green Flash; Hen Harrier and 3 Mandarins at Macclesfield Forest also Redstart singing at Tegg's Nose CP; Redstart and Tree Pipit at Hilbre; Cuckoo at Caldy; Yellow Wagtail and Mediterranean Gull at Burton Mere Wetlands; Redstart at Chester; 6 White Wagtails at Leasowe;

CB

 

[Jane Turner]

Downloadable e-report for Red Rock 2012 here

http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=2706281&postcount=319

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Ring Ouzel, Common Tern and Black-throated Diver at Hilbre; Sedge Warbler at Leasowe; Jack Snipe at Woolston Eyes; Hobby at Burton; Yellow Wagtail at Budworth Mere; Redstart at Ellesmere Port; Tree Pipit and White Wagtail at Gilroy Nature Park; Tree Pipit at Neston; 28 White Wagtails at Hale plus 7 at Red Rocks and 3 at Thurstaston; Scaup at Astbury SQ; 2 Marsh Harriers and 2 Brent Geese at Frodsham; 14+ Sandwich Terns at Hoylake;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - 2 Ring Ouzels and 25 Wheatears at Thurstaston; Ring Ouzel and Redstart at Meols; 3 Ring Ouzels at Neston; Pied Flycatcher at Woolston Eyes; Grasshopper Warbler, Tree Pipit and 12 White Wagtails at Red Rocks; 2 Yellow Wagtails and 3+ White Wagtails at Budworth Mere; 20 White Wagtails at Moreton; 25+ Wheatears at Leasowe plus 12 at Caldy;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - 130+ Wheatears, Redstart, Cuckoo, 4 White Wagtails and 35 Willow Warblers at Leasowe; Jack Snipe and Little Egret at Pickering’s Pasture; 11 White Wagtails, c380 Sand Martins, 160 Swallows and Jack Snipe at Woolston Eyes; Grasshopper Warbler at Wigg Island;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

today - Garganey at Burton Mere Wetlands; 8 Black-necked Grebes, Arctic Tern and Mandarin at Woolston Eyes; Ring Ouzel and 15 Wheatears at Heswall; 2 Whinchats, 8 White Wagtails, 2 Redstarts and 40+ Wheatears at Leasowe; 3 Whinchats, Redstart and 50+ Wheatears at Meols; Arctic Tern, Whimbrel and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Budworth Mere; Pied Flycatcher at Dodleston; Redstart at Moreton; Redstart at Red Rocks;

CB

 

[Jane Turner]

I had an Arctic tern this pm too

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Garganey at Sandbach Flashes; 2 Sandwich Terns and 5 White Wagtails at Houghton Green Flash; 3 Arctic Terns and Mediterranean Gull at Budworth Mere; 2 Mediterranean Gulls and 400+ Sand Martins at Woolston Eyes; Cuckoo, 3 White Wagtails, Redstart and Sedge Warbler at Frodsham; 12 Avocets at Inner Marsh Farm; 3 Yellow Wagtails at Brereton;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Ring Ousel, Whinchat and Redstart at Meols; Ring Ousel, Sedge Warbler, 2 Whinchats, 2 Redstarts and 12 White Wagtails at Leasowe; Yellow Wagtail, Grasshopper Warbler and Tree Pipit at Hilbre; Scaup at Astbury SQ; Brambling at Great Sutton; Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Budworth Mere;

CB

 

[Jane Turner]

Monster Seawatch

85 RTD , summ plum GN & BT (122 divers in 1st hour - many not identifiable)
590 Gannet
490 Razorbill
195 Guillemot
1 Puffin
6 manxies
12 Fulmar
1 Great Skua
95 Sandwich Tern
7 Arctic Tern

 

[bartolli]

Just had a brambling in our garden (chester) this morning, its a bit late for them isn't it?

Also 3 blackcaps on our ivy berries yesterday!

 

[HughPulsford]

Blue winged Teal at Burton Mere RSPB

Reported this morning, a drake apparently.
cheers
Hugh

 

[Jane Turner]

Big seawatch again, though no as big as yesterday. Little Tern, 3 Bonxies, another Puffin and 10 Manxies the highlight.

 

[Jane Turner]

Hoopoe in off and vapourised on the golf course at Red Rocks this am (6.15) and a Marsh Harrier at park lane Meols

 

[Himalaya]

Nice day out in Chesire today - visietd Beeston Castle, then Burton Mere, Burton Point, Little Eye and then Red Rocks. Plenty of Wheatear around Burton Point. Some on the walls just resting allowing fairly close approach. Please could some one explain where they would have last stopped? Would any of them have flown non-stop from Africa or any other long distance and then decided to stop just here? Some were looking so tired and the numbers present was quite something to watch. How many Wheatears would there usually be at this time of the year in previous years?

A nice surprise was a Garganey at BMW and an even nicer one was a Swift at Burton Point. One had been seen previously at BMW. Maybe it was the same bird? I managed to see my first Swift before House and Sand Martin this year, although the latter was only 2 minutes behind. Chiffchaffs at Beeston, BMW, IMF, Burton Point and Red Rocks. Willow Warblers at IMF and Beeston. Blackcap heard at Beeston and adjacent to Red Rocks . Whitethroat heard at Red Rocks. A good number of Sedge Warblers heard at Red Rocks. Redpolls around Beeston.

Some one had spotted a Caspian Gull at Leasowe. Nothing else to report that I remember!