Archived Latest Sightings:
May and June 2016.
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from September 2000.
Jun 30
6 Spoonbill, 3 Spotted Redshank and c300 Black-tailed Godwit -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Common Redstart -
Connah's
Quay Reserve.
Jun 29
1ad Gannet, 270 Oystercatcher, 240 Redshank, 375 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel,
530 Black-headed Gull, 1 ad Mediterranean Gull, 500 Herring Gull -
Heswall Shore early
morning high tide, Gannet VERY unusual off here.
6 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
1 Common Sandpiper at outlet of
Wepre
Brook, Connah's Quay.
Jun 28
6 Spoonbill, 1 Common Sandpiper and 1 fem Marsh Harrier -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 27
6 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
1 Mediterranean Gull (1st sum) -
Hilbre.
1 Grasshopper Warbler north end of promenade, 1 Wheatear (juv)
south end -
Parkgate.
Jun 26
2 Spotted Flycatcher -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
Jun 25
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
still at
Gronant.
1 Glossy Ibis, 7 Spoonbill, 1 Great White Egret, 2 Spotted Redshank, 1
Ruff, 1 Common Sandpiper, 300+ Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Cuckoo and 1
Yellow Wagtail -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
1 Hobby -
Heswall.
Jun 24
7 Spoonbill flew
in at 6.30pm -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
1 Mediterranean Gull at 1pm (but flew off) -
Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby.
1 Red Kite flew NW over West Kirby Road, Saughall Massie, this
afternoon.
Jun 23
7 Spoonbill in
trees at
Burton Mere Wetlands
this morning.
Jun 22
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
, seen on the beach at
Gronant
several times today, PLEASE avoid disturbing the Little Tern colony by
keeping at least 30m from the fence.
3 Spoonbill and 1 Spotted Redshank
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
1 Red Kite over Kerrs Field near
Leasowe
Lighthouse, this morning.
Jun 21
3 Spoonbill came into
Burton
Mere Wetlands this evening.
60 Sandwich Tern on sand off
West
Kirby Marine Lake as tide came in.
20 Gannet and 100+ Common Tern feeding off
Hoylake an hour before
high tide.
Jun 20
1 Spotted Crake hear calling early morning -
Shotton Nature Reserve (permit
only).
1 Short-eared Owl flew along revetment -
Connah's Quay Reserve.
Jun 18
2 Eider, c150 Gannet, 15 Common Scoter and good numbers of Common and
Sandwich Terns -
Hilbre,
see
Hilbre Obs Blog for details.
Jun 17
1 White-winged Black Tern
-
Connah's
Quay Reserve at mid-day.
1 White-winged Black Tern
over the tern colony at
Shotton
Nature Reserve this afternoon.
1 White-winged Black Tern
first seen at 3.30pm -
reception
scrape, Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 16
50+
Common Scoter (in four flying flocks, the usual over-summering birds),
1 Gannet and 10+ Sabdwich Tern, Little Terns doing very well and as
things stand are set for a record breaking season -
Gronant.
2 Common Tern fishing over
West
Kirby Marine Lake.
Jun 14
23 Grey Plover, 218 Curlew, 3 Whimbrel, 1ad Yellow-legged Gull, 225
Carrion Crow -
Heswall Shore
this morning.
Jun 13
1 Wood Warbler (singing) -
Heswall
Dales.
Jun 12
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
on beach early morning and
1
Stone Curlew in dunes -
Gronant.
21 Little Egret, 430 Oystercatcher, 220 Curlew, 2 Whimbrel, 280
Black-headed Gull, 1ad Yellow-legged Gull, 275 Herring Gull, 35 Lesser
Black-backed Gull, 1 Common Tern -
Heswall
Shore early morning.
1 Hobby over
Hoylake parade
this afternoon.
Jun 11
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
this evening -
Gronant.
4 Spoonbill (1 ad, 3 imm) and 2 Mediterranean Gull (ads) which
flew NW -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
Jun 10
2 Arctic Tern over the Little Tern colony early evening -
Gronant.
2 Spoonbill, 2 Garganey and 1 Little Gull -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 8
3 Spoonbill -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
Jun 7
2 Spoonbill and 1 Little Ringed Plover -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 5
1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Marsh Harrier (fem in
moult) and 101 Lapwing -
Burton
Point.
48 Great Black-backed Gull and 3,000 Herring Gull on the sea by
Bird Rock, Red Rocks.
Jun 4
1 Grasshopper Warbler -
Parkgate, north of Old Baths car park.
3 Great White Egret -
Burton
Point.
Jun 3
7 Spoonbill, 1
Red Kite, 1 Greenshank, 1 Yellow Wagtail and 74 Avocet chicks -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 2
3 Spoonbill -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
Jun 1
700 Sanderling, 1 Whimbrel and 1 Water Rail, Little Terns doing well -
Gronant.
5 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
May 31
1 Yellow Wagtail in field next to golf course -
Hoylake Langfields.
May 30
6 Spoonbill
(1 adult, 5 imms), on reception scrape first thing then moved into
trees but still visible -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
May 29
5 Spoonbill,
2 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Hobby, 1 Marsh Harrier (fem), 3 Cetti's
Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler and 1 Garganey (drake) -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 28
4 Spoonbill, 1 Garden Warbler and 2 Spotted Flycatcher-
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 27
1 Spotted Flycatcher and 1 Cetti's Warbler -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 26
1 Little Stint, 800 Knot, 2,000 Dunlin, 90 Sanderling, 200 Ringed
Plover and 3 Grey Plover -
Hoylake
Shore.
170+ Little Tern, 40 Sanderling and 1 Whimbrel -
Gronant.
May 25
4 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
1 Little Stint, 1,000 Dunlin, 70 Sanderling and 80 Ringed Plover -
Hoylake Shore.
May 24
3 Spoonbill -
Decca Pools.
4 Raven over Arrowe Park heading towards the Dee Estuary this morning.
1 Cuckoo heard briefly -
Thurstaston
Hill.
3 Spoonbill, 1 Little Gull, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Spotted
Flycatcher and 70+ Avocet chicks -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
1 Short-eared Owl off
Harp
Inn, Neston, also 1 Grasshopper Warbler.
May 23
1 Spoonbill still showing well at
Decca
Pools.
May 22
1 Cuckoo -
Red Rocks
this morning.
1 Spoonbill, 1 Great White Egret and 1 Short-eared Owl -
Burton Marsh.
May 21
4
Raven (family party), 4 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Marsh Harrier (1fem and
1 juv male), 1 Wheatear (male), 1 Short-eared Owl (flew over very
high), c100 Swift and 1 Cetti's Warbler -
Burton Marsh, seems
likely that the Ravens are the ones that bred in Birkenhead Docks where
two young were seen to fledge yesterday.
2 Fulmar 'prospecting', also still good number of Ringed Plover and
Dunlin -
Hilbre.
2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Little Ringed Plover and 1 Hobby -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 20
1 Spoonbill - Decca Pools.
At least 45 Avocet chicks, also 50+ Swift over, 1 Marsh Harrier and 1
Cetti's Warbler -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
May 19
c40 Swift moving through, also 1 Yellow Wagtail and 2 Spotted
Flycatcher -
Leasowe
Lighthouse, see further details in
the Lighthouse Blog.
May 18
1 Spoonbill -
Decca Pools.
1 Whinchat and 1 Spotted Flycatcher -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
May 17
1 Hobby flew south through horse paddocks -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
2 pairs of Great Crested Grebe at
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
1 Marsh Harrier (fem) -
Burton Point.
May 16
1 Marsh Harrier just south of the
Harp
Inn, Neston.
May 15
1 Osprey flew over
Gronant,
flying east.
1 Wheatear, 1 Whinchat, 1 Cuckoo and 1 Yellow Wagtail -
Leasowe Lighthouse area.
2
Eider (imm males) and 4 Guillemot, c2,000 Herring Gull about last
couple of days (also noted that there has been a small influx of
Herring Gulls on West Kirby Marine Lake and at Gilroy Nature Park) -
highlights from
Hilbre
see further details in the
Hilbre
Obs Blog.
2 Hobby over old RAF Camp,
Newton.
2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Hobby, 1 Curlew Sandpiper and
2 Cetti's Warbler -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
May 14
1 Curlew Sandpiper -
Dove
Point, Meols, this morning.
1 Hobby - flew over fields at
Bennets
Lane/Park Lane jct, Meols.
1 Black Tern, 1 Curlew Sandpiper and 1 Cuckoo -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 13
1 Subalpine Warbler (male,
prob western race) - south end
Red
Rocks early morning (not relocated but still thought to be
present).
May 12
1 Nightjar -
Hilbre,
first seen 1140am, still present at 1245pm but high tide at 4pm so
won't be able to walk to the island this afternoon - still present at
6.30pm.
2 Common Sandpiper (displayed over water for at least five minutes) -
Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby.
1 Black Tern -
Shotton
Lagoons (permit only).
1 Garden Warbler, 1 Spotted Flycatcher and 5 Redpoll, 1 Cuckoo heard
towards the back of Hoylake -
Red
Rocks, early morning.
6-7,000 mixed waders (mainly Dunlin) -
Meols Shore this
morning.
May 11
1 Spotted Redshank and 1 Curlew Sandpiper among the scattered wader
flocks at low tide -
Hoylake/Meols
Shore.
1 Common Sandpiper -
Gilroy
Nature Park, West Kirby.
1 Short-eared Owl -
Denhall
Lane near Decca Pool stile.
1 Cuckoo heard calling in
Heswall
Fields.
May 10
2
Curlew Sandpiper (1 s/pl and 1 partial s/pl), 5,000 Dunlin, 8
Bar-tailed Godwit, 30 Sandwich Tern and 4 Little Tern, 1 Goosander flew
east -
Meols Shore
on the rising tide.
18 Whimbrel and 85 Grey Plover (s/pl) -
Heswall Shore this
morning.
1 Little Gull (imm), 45 Whimbrel. 1 Greenshank and 4 Yellow Wagtail -
Hilbre.
May 9
1 Short-eared Owl -
Hilbre, also
15 Black Tern drifted west past the island and 1 drake Eider.
1 Cuckoo (heard) near bottom of
Black
Horse Hill, West Kirby, 2 Tree Pipit on adjacent Grange Hill.
1 Common Sandpiper -
Gilroy
Nature Park, West Kirby.
9 Redpoll, 4 Tree Pipit, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Spotted Flycatcher, 1
Whinchat, 2 Wheatear and 10+ Black Tern -
Red Rocks.
May 8
1 - Osprey off
West Kirby
shore towards Hilbre around high tide.
1 Firecrest, c10 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Yellowhammer and 14 Stock Dove -
Red Rocks early
morning.
1 Spotted Flycatcher and 1 Common Sandpiper -
Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby.
1 Black Tern -
Burton Marsh.
1 Cuckoo, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Wood Sandpiper and 1 Little Gull -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
9 Yellow Wagtail, 6 Tree Pipit and 16 Redpoll highlights from
Hilbre. for more details
see
Hilbre Obs Blog.
May 7
27 Spotted Flycatcher
(largest ever count here), 1 Cuckoo, 7 Wheatear, 5 Lesser
Whitethroat, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Whinchat and 11 Redpoll - highlights
from
Leasowe Lighthouse,
for details see the
Lighthouse
Blog.
Up
to 4 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Short-eared Owl, 6 Whinchat, 1 Peregrine, 1
Blue-headed Wagtail, 40+ Redpoll, 5 Tree Pipit and 2 Garden Warbler -
Red Rocks.
1 Garganey -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
2 Spotted Flycatcher and 1 Common Sandpiper -
Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby.
70 Grey Plover (60 in s/pl), 1 Whimbrel and 5 Swift -
Heswall Shore.
May 6
144 Redpoll (mostly flying), 5 Tree Pipit, 1 Short-eared Owl and 2
Yellow Wagtail -
Red Rocks.
May 5
1 Redstart -
Hilbre.
1
Garden Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 15 Blackcap and 15 Willow
Warbler, 35 Redpoll, 1 Yellow Wagtail and 5 Tree Pipit over -
Red Rocks.
50+ Common Tern, 50+ Sandwich Tern, 15 Little Tern, 1 Arctic
Tern, 6+ Gannet, 1 Whimbrel, 12 Wheatear, 2 Whinchat and 2 Siskin
between
Red Rocks and Dove
Point around high tide.
1 Wood Warbler singing by railway line, 1 Little Gull -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
7 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Cuckoo, 3 Garden Warbler, 1 Tree Pipit and 1
Yellow Wagtail -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
1 Short-eared Owl, 45 Little Tern, 150 Sandwich Tern, 3 Sanderling, 4
Grasshopper Warbler and 1 Lesser Whitethroat -
Gronant, report of a
White Stork over but not confirmed.
May 4
1 Cuckoo, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Whinchat and 3
Tree Pipit -
Red Rocks
early morning.
36 Whimbrel, 16 Little Egret and 4 Lesser Whitethroat -
Heswall Shore.
c50
Sandwich Tern, 5 Little Tern, 1 Arctic Tern, 6 Common Tern and 7 Gannet
at high tide, also 1 Blue-headed Wagtail, 16 Sedge Warbler, 32 Willow
Warbler, 3 Whinchat, 5 Redstart, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 11 Redpoll and 25
Wheatear -
highlights from Leasowe Lighthouse, see
Lighthouse
Blog for details.
100+ Common Tern, 50 Sandwich Tern, 20 Little Tern, 1 Arctic Tern, 10
Gannet and 4+ Red-throated Diver (flew north) between
Red Rocks and Dove Point around
high tide.
May 3
1 Grasshopper Warbler top of first field, north end of
Stapledon Wood, Caldy.
1 Common Sandpiper -
Hilbre.
1 Whinchat and 7 Wheatear -
Connah's
Quay Reserve.
1 Little Gull, 2 Cuckoo, 3 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Garden
Warbler, 4 Knot and 3 Spotted Redshank -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
4
Whinchat, 15 Wheatear, 1 Cuckoo (heard), 10 Common Whitethroat
(singing), 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 23 Willow Warbler and 2 Grasshopper
Warbler - highlights from
Leasowe
Lighthouse, see
Lighthouse
Blog for details.
1 Greenshank on flash by
Old
Baths, Parkgate.
May 2
1 Cuckoo flying west -
Meols
Common.
1 Whinchat and 4 Wheatear -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
2 Wood Warbler singing in wood next to car park -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 1
1 Cuckoo at fishing lake end of White Gate Lane, also 1 Osprey (flew
west), 3 Whimbrel and 3 Wheatear -
Leasowe
Lighthouse, 1 Goosander (redhead) swimming next to the
embankment this afternoon.
1 Hobby showing well along
Park
Lane, Meols, this morning.
235 Grey Plover, 2,000 Dunlin, 700 Knot, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 24
Whimbrel, 2 Lesser Whitethroat -
Heswall
Shore early morning.
1 Pied Flycatcher (male) showing well by the Mere Ponds -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
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