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

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - 2 Curlew Sandpipers at Inner Marsh Farm;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Stilt Sandpiper, Hobby and Mandarin at Sandbach Flashes; 2 Little Stints, 12 Curlew Sandpipers and Garganey at Frodsham; Garganey, Little Stint and 3 Curlew Sandpipers at Burton Mere Wetlands; 12 Curlew Sandpipers and 2 Yellow-legged Gulls at Hoylake; 2 Curlew Sandpipers, Whimbrel and 4 Little Terns at Hilbre; Curlew Sandpiper at Hale; Yellow-legged Gull and 2 Whinchats at Neumann's Flash; Hobby, 16 Common Buzzards, 7 Sparrowhawks, Marsh Harrier, 2 Greenshanks and Green Sandpiper at Woolston Eyes; 27 Greenshanks at Parkgate;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - 15 Curlew Sandpipers at Red Rocks;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - no sign of Stilt Sandpiper at Sandbach Flashes; Garganey, 2 Little Stints, Spotted Redshank and Curlew Sandpiper at Burton Mere Wetlands; 2 Little Stints, 25 Curlew Sandpipers and Yellow-legged Gull at Hoylake; 6 Curlew Sandpipers at New Ferry; 12 Wheatears at Meols/Wallasey; Marsh Harrier and 2 Greenshanks at Wigg Island; Sedge Warbler at Neumann's Flash;

CB

 

[Jane Turner]

If anyone fancies a quick seawatch, I've set up a webcam in the office.

http://quaintways.camstreams.com/

I've also established that I can't get up there fast enough if I see something on the screen


Its also a long way up to stop the laptop switching off

 

[John Barber]

I'm in and watching a buoy at the moment ! This could save me going to Hoylake every time there's something worth seeing !!

 

[John Barber]

I've seen a few gulls ! How far is the buoy from your house ?

 

[Jane Turner]

just over 1.4 miles.

The online list is Herring & LBBG, Common and Sandwich Tern... plus a presumed common scoter

 

[John Barber]

Not a bad picture at that distance. And if the lights anything like it is here in Lymm at 5.36pm, it's fading fast.

 

[Jane Turner]

My problem is too much magnification... and too little field of view.... and this is a knackered old scope with. Light grim here and rain on the window.

 

[John Barber]

I can see the potential though.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

I can see the potential though.

I agree

CB

 

[Jane Turner]

Rather than spam this thread, I'll post updates on the webcam here

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=266185

Waiting for it stop raining or the waders to arrive. Currently what looks like a 1st BH Gull based on the reflection of its underparts and a bit of its tail

 

[Jane Turner]

It was a common gull.. and I did look.

 

[chris butterworth]

Packed in work early and had a wander about the NW corner of Wirral around high tide. Black Tern between Red Rocks and Kings Gap was brilliant ( 2 birds reported around Red Rocks earlier ), 4 (9 counted in total ) Curlew Sands, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 17 Barwit among the Oystercatcher, Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, Knot, Sanderling, Dunlin and Curlew at Hoylake. c100 Great Black-backs in the gull roost. A fly-through Peregrine showed well. 2 Pale-bellied Brent flew across the estuary towards the Point of Air were 'early' but a single Wheatear in the dunes was the only notable passerine.

Chris

 

[John Barber]

Unidentified Wader At Woolston Eye

Don't know if anyone can get down there for a quick look.

I saw a wader drop on to no.3 bed around 2pm with a flock of Lapwing. Three of us couldn't quite work out what this bird is. It's probably something straight forward but the bird it most looked like Collins is a juv Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ( which I'm sure it probabably isn't ) The bird was still present at 2.30pm

 

[John Barber]

Mystery Woolston Wader






An aberrant Ruff ?

 

[Jane Turner]

Looks like a Ruff to me.. not too sure about aberrant

 

[John Barber]

No, the consensus is, it's a small female.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Sept 8th - Black Tern at Winsford Bottom Flash; 3 Garganey, 3 Little Stints, 3 Marsh Harriers and 5 Curlew Sandpipers at Burton Mere Wetlands; 2 Curlew Sandpipers, Reed Warbler, 13 Red-legged Partridges and Hobby at Frodsham;

CB