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

[Carl Fletcher-Poole]

I have just found this thread and my area is Lancashire and Cheshire so I will report any unusual (mostly usual lol) sightings I get on my travels. Dean nice one for setting this up.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Hawfinch and 7 Whimbrel at Hale; 4 Sandwich Terns at Pickering's Pasture; 2 Avocets at Woolston Eyes;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - 5 Avocets at Frodsham; Arctic Tern and Green Sandpiper at Sandbach Flashes;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Osprey near Chester; 7 Crossbills at Hale;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Hobby, Mediteranean Gull and 5 Avocets at Frodsham;

Today – 3 Little Egrets at Hilbre;

CB

 

[HughPulsford]

Birders with Cameras and IQs in single figures

Okay I rarely have a rant. As County Recorder I get to hear of bad behaviour at Cheshire and Wirral sites only on a rare basis, in fact our county birders and visitors are better behaved than many counties.

Generally NW Birder's are overall well behaved ( visiting dicks at the Long eared Owl at BMW excepted) including those with long lens. However the attached must take the biscuit. This is a Kestrel nest! yes I know a Kestrel nest, but this camtwat is stationed less than 15 yards from an open nest site, hoping for than crippling photo of an adult bring prey back to 5 chicks at feathers small, an open nest site which he is 15 yards away from.
Okay He clearly has an IQ in single figures, his field craft skills are in the I spy book of bird watching( unedited first edition, not published) , and his knowledge of Kestrel nest biology, is undoubtedly somewhere between the Greek parliament's view of getting more money out of Germany and the Philae spacecraft not getting frazzled by the sun.
so when challenged , and he admitted no adults had returned during his hour vigil, that he might be a "bit close" his response was " well they are in a nest box so they must be oaky with folks being close"
okay enough said.
I just hope he got that crippling picture before the young starved.

Hugh

 

[Boom]

Okay I rarely have a rant. As County Recorder I get to hear of bad behaviour at Cheshire and Wirral sites only on a rare basis, in fact our county birders and visitors are better behaved than many counties.

Generally NW Birder's are overall well behaved ( visiting dicks at the Long eared Owl at BMW excepted) including those with long lens. However the attached must take the biscuit. This is a Kestrel nest! yes I know a Kestrel nest, but this camtwat is stationed less than 15 yards from an open nest site, hoping for than crippling photo of an adult bring prey back to 5 chicks at feathers small, an open nest site which he is 15 yards away from.
Okay He clearly has an IQ in single figures, his field craft skills are in the I spy book of bird watching( unedited first edition, not published) , and his knowledge of Kestrel nest biology, is undoubtedly somewhere between the Greek parliament's view of getting more money out of Germany and the Philae spacecraft not getting frazzled by the sun.
so when challenged , and he admitted no adults had returned during his hour vigil, that he might be a "bit close" his response was " well they are in a nest box so they must be oaky with folks being close"
okay enough said.
I just hope he got that crippling picture before the young starved.

Hugh

That is an absurd sight, what an absolute knob.

 

[hampers]

Okay I rarely have a rant. As County Recorder I get to hear of bad behaviour at Cheshire and Wirral sites only on a rare basis, in fact our county birders and visitors are better behaved than many counties.

Generally NW Birder's are overall well behaved ( visiting dicks at the Long eared Owl at BMW excepted) including those with long lens. However the attached must take the biscuit. This is a Kestrel nest! yes I know a Kestrel nest, but this camtwat is stationed less than 15 yards from an open nest site, hoping for than crippling photo of an adult bring prey back to 5 chicks at feathers small, an open nest site which he is 15 yards away from.
Okay He clearly has an IQ in single figures, his field craft skills are in the I spy book of bird watching( unedited first edition, not published) , and his knowledge of Kestrel nest biology, is undoubtedly somewhere between the Greek parliament's view of getting more money out of Germany and the Philae spacecraft not getting frazzled by the sun.
so when challenged , and he admitted no adults had returned during his hour vigil, that he might be a "bit close" his response was " well they are in a nest box so they must be oaky with folks being close"
okay enough said.
I just hope he got that crippling picture before the young starved.

Hugh

Hugh
I hope that is not at my favourite location where you ringed the young recently. Not that that that makes any difference to the incredibly bad behaviour of this individual.

Words fail the express what a t**t this idiot is. Clearly has no respect or thought for the wellbeing of the birds in anyway whatsoever.

Phil

 

[Jane Turner]

Good on you for outing the eedjit!

 

[bartolli]

What an ahole! in camoflage blue too, colourblind as well as dumb!

 

[Cheshire Birder]

June 23rd - Osprey at Rode Pool (this bird has been touring the N.Staffs/Derbys area the last few days);

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

June 25th - Red Kite at Hale; Spotted Redshank at Burton Mere Wetlands; 19 Black-necked Grebes at Woolston Eyes;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Serin at Leasowe; Wood Sandpiper at Hale; Spotted Redshank at Burton Mere Wetlands;

Today - Little Gull at Frodsham; 3 Green Sandpipers at Woolston Eyes;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

June 28th – Brent Goose at Burton Mere Wetlands; 12 Crossbills and Hobby at Neumann’s Flash; Mediterranean Gull, Spotted Redshank and Whimbrel at Heswall;

June 26th – Ring-billed Gull at Burton Mere Wetlands;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

June 30th – Laughing Gull reported over Crewe; Pied Flycatcher at Pickering’s Pasture; Redstart at Budworth Mere; 2 Spotted Redshanks and 2 Green Sandpipers at Burton Mere Wetlands; Mediterranean Gull at West Kirby ML; Whimbrel, Mediterranean Gull and 2 Sandwich Terns at Heswall;

June 29th – 2 Mediterranean Gull and Spotted Redshank at Burton Mere Wetlands; 3 Green Sandpipers and 8 Little Ringed Plovers at Woolston Eyes; Mediterranean Gull at West Kirby ML;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday – 4 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands; Spotted Redshank and 2 Whimbrel at Heswall; 2 Common Terns at Woolston Eyes; Mediterranean Gull at Hoylake;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today – 3 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands; 21 Black-necked Grebes, 550 Gadwall and 2 Green Sandpipers at Woolston Eyes; 3 Mediterranean Gulls at West Kirby ML;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

July 3rd - Gull-billed Tern and 5 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands;

July 2nd - Jack Snipe at West Kirby;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Yesterday - Great White Egret at Burton Mere Wetlands; 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Heswall plus one at Pickering's Pasture; Whimbrel and 4 Crossbills at Hale;

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Today - Great White Egret and 6 Spotted Redshanks at Burton Mere Wetlands;

CB