Archived Latest Sightings:
May and June 2022.
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sightings from September 2000.
Jun 30
8 Mediterranean Gull (7 ads, 1 2nd summer) just south of Dee Sailing
Club Causeway before high tide -
Thurstaston
Shore.
46 Sandwich Tern (including first 2 juvs the year), 1 Mediterranean
Gull, 2 Common Gull and 3 Common Tern in gull roost -
West Kirby Shore.
2 Greenshank, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Ruff, 3 Spotted Redshank and 1 Green
Sandpiper -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling -
Leasowe
Gunsite.
1 Mediterranean Gull (adult) -
Hilbre.
3 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
Jun 29
3 Spoonbill and 1 Marsh Harrier -
Parkgate.
1 1st summer Little Gull, 4 Mediterranean Gull, 920 Black-headed Gull
at high tide
this morning -
Heswall Shore.
Jun 28
1 Hobby -
Burton Marsh.
1 Common Tern over
West Kirby Marine
Lake.
1 Spoonbill, 1 Hobby and 2 Common Sandpiper -
Parkgate.
5 Spotted Redshank -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 27
3 Spoonbill and 1 Hobby -
Parkgate.
8 Mediterranean Gull (6ad, 2 2nd summer), 860 Black-headed Gull, 595
Herring Gull, 80 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 12 Great Black-backed Gull,
255 Oystercatcher, 615 Curlew, 3 Whimbrel, 115 Redshank at high tide
this morning -
Heswall Shore.
2 Marsh Harrier, 4 Spotted Redshank, 1 Ruff and 1 Little Ringed Plover
from Border Hide -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 26
1 Marsh Harrier and 3 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
4
Bar-tailed Godwit with several hundred Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green
Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover
and 1 Garganey -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 25
3 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
Jun 24
1 Hobby over Broad Lane -
Heswall.
1 Willow Tit caught and ringed in sea-front garden -
Hoylake.
1 Mediterranean Gull and at least 15 Sandwich Tern in gull roost at
high tide -
West Kirby Shore.
2 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
5 Mediterranean Gull over high tide -
Heswall
Shore.
1 Great Egret, 1 Hobby and 1 Spotted Redshank -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
20+ Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap and 1 Lesser Whitethroat btween
Heswall and Thurstaston.
Jun 23
6 Mediterranean Gull (4ad, 2 2nd summer), 1 Little Gull (1st summer), 5
Whimbrel at high tide this morning -
Heswall
Shore.
3 Spotted Redshank, 1 Ruff, 1 Little Ringed Plover and 1 Marsh Harrier
-
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 22
5 Raven heading north over
Greasby.
5 Mediterranean Gull (4ad, 1 2nd summer), 1 Little Gull (1st summer),
570 Black-headed Gull, 11 Grey Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 353 Curlew, 97
Redshank at high tide this morning -
Heswall
Shore.
1 Red Kite over -
Saughall.
Jun 21
1 Hobby over
Moreton.
1 Bittern in flight, 1 Great Egret (s/pl), 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Green
Woodpecker feeding young, 1 Kingfisher and 1 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Marsh Harrier -
Parkgate.
Jun 20
5 Whimbrel -
Heswall Shore.
Jun 19
1 Garganey (fem) -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
2 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
Jun 18
1 Wood Sandpiper and 1 Spoonbill -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
Jun 17
2 Spoonbill (Boathouse Flash) and 1 Grasshopper Warbler (Old Baths) -
Parkgate.
1 Hobby over -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Red Kite over
Raby.
4 adult Mediterranean Gull, 280 Black-headed Gull, 325 Herring Gull,
180 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 9 Great Black-backed Gull, also 21
Lapwing and 14 Redshank on rising tide -
Heswall
Shore.
1 Bittern briefly -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 16
1 Red Kite drifting west over J4 of M53 at 1040am.
1 Hobby over Wirral Way -
Willaston.
Jun 15
1 Yellowhammer (fem) on
Heswall Fields.
1 Eider (first for the reserve) -
Connah's
Quay Nature Reserve.
6 Spotted Redshank (all s/pl) -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
Jun 14
2 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
6 Sandwich Tern on sand bank, 2 Common Tern over
West Kirby Marine Lake.
2 Sandwich Tern off Lifeboat station -
Hoylake
Shore.
Jun 13
1 Hobby chasing hirundines -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
A few waders still coming through including 26 Dunlin and 6 Ringed
Plover south of the Lifeboat -
Hoylake
Shore.
Jun 11
2 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
Jun 10
2 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
2
redhead Goosander, 215 Oystercatcher, 26 Grey Plover, 17 Ringed Plover,
55 Dunlin, 269 Curlew, 5 Whimbrel, 460 Black-headed Gull, 260 Herring
Gull, 85 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 187 Carrion Crow at high tide -
Heswall Shore.
Jun 9
1 Spoonbill (distant) -
Parkgate.
Jun 7
At Least 3 Lesser Whitethroat -
Heswall
Fields.
Jun 6
1 White-winged Black Tern in
summer plumage showing well this morning -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 4
1 Spoonbill and 1 Marsh Harrier -
Parkgate.
1 Hooded Crow flew in off the sea then flew off this morning -
Gronant.
Jun 3
1 Wheatear -
Leasowe Bay.
2 Pink-footed Geese on Boathouse Flash -
Parkgate.
1 Golden Plover, c10 Sanderling and c20 Ringed Plover on the beach -
Gronant.
Jun 2
Good numbers of Swifts overhead north Wirral.
1 Hobby over Pasture Road -
Leasowe.
1 Osprey seen from
Burton Point (may
be we have an over-summering Osprey?).
3 Red Kite over
Buckley (just south of
Connah's Quay).
1 Little Gull on beach -
Point of Ayr.
May 31
1 Osprey over heading west, 1 Garganey and 1 Little Ringed Plover -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Little Stint, 5 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Sanderling, 50 Ringed Plover,
100 Dunlin, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 70+ Gannet, 30+ Sandwich Tern and
20+ Little Tern -
Point of Ayr.
May 30
2 Spoonbill, 1 Hobby and 3 Marsh Harrier -
Parkgate.
1 Osprey over Wallasey heading towards
New
Brighton.
1 Grasshopper in reedbed by Target Road, 1 Lesser Whitethroat singing
in fields -
Heswall.
May 29
1 Greenland Waheatear, 1 Lesser Whitethroat and 1 Willow Warbler -
Hilbre.
1 Hobby over
Barnston.
May 28
1 Lesser Whitethroat singing in the fields, 3 Whimbrel on the shore off
-
Heswall Fields NT.
May 26
1 Short-eared Owl -
Gronant.
May 25
1 1st summer Little Gull with 105 Black-headed Gull, 165 Oystercatcher,
37 Grey Plover, 135 Ringed Plover, 600 Dunlin, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 239
Curlew, 4 Whimbrel -
Heswall Shore
over high tide.
An unexpected 2 Barnacle Geese with Oystercatchers -
Leasowe Shore.
1 Spoonbill and 1 Hobby -
Parkgate.
May 24
1 Quail calling near Nets cafe -
Burton
Marsh.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
May 22
1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Whinchat and 3 Wheatear -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Spoonbill, 3 Ruddy Shelduck and 3 Pink-footed Geese -
Parkgate.
142 Ringed Plover on shore between
Hoylake
and Hilbre.
1 Whinchat, 4 Rock Pipit (3 juvs), 1 Wheatear and 7 s/pl Turnstone -
Hilbre.
May 21
1 Spoonbill and 4 Pink-footed Geese -
Parkgate.
2 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Osprey circling over the sea -
Dove
Point, Meols.
1 'channel' Yellow Wagtail, 1 Whinchat and 1 Lesser Whitethroat near
Kerr's Field -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
A late Red-breasted Merganser along with 100 Dunlin and 25 Ringed
Plover -
Hilbre.
May 20
2 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Spotted Flycatcher on fence along Park Lane -
Meols.
May 17
1 Curlew Sandpiper with Dunlin by the groyne before high tide -
Meols Shore.
1 Great Egret heading south, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Wheatear and 1 Spotted
Flycactcher -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Whinchat, 1 Common Redstart, 1 Blackcap, 1 Common Whitethroat, 1 Tree
Pipit and 1 Garden Warbler -
Hilbre.
1 Spotted Flycatcher in trees by car park -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
May 16
4 Whinchat and 6 Wheatear (coastal paddocks and Kerr's Field), also 5+
Spotted flycatcher and 6 Common Tern past -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
3+ Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 4 Common
Whitethroat and 4 Willow Warbler though sea-front garden this morning -
Hoylake.
1 Black Tern, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 80 Sanderling and a lot of Dunlin
including
alpina -
Hoylake Shore.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
May 15
1 Pufflin off Connah's Quay Nature
Reserve.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
1 Spotted Flycatcher in trees by car park -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Curlew Sandpiper, 26 Whimbrel, 17 Grey Plover, 61 Ringed Plover, 555
Dunlin and 7 Sanderling over high tide -
Heswall
Shore.
May 14
1 Whinchat and 2 Wheatear in coastal paddocks -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Cuckoo -
Red Rocks.
1 Cuckoo by Net's Cafe -
Burton Marsh.
1 Cuckoo heard plus 1 Lesser Whitethroat and 2 Wheatear -
Hoylake Langfields.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
1 Spotted Flycatcher in trees by car park -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 13
Good numbers of Gannets out to sea at high tide off
North Wirral.
1 Spotted Flycatcher and 4+ Wheatear -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
May 12
1 probable Balearic Shearwater, 56 Gannet, 3 Guillemot and 120
Kittiwake -
Hilbre.
May 11
Good wader passage including 1 Little Stint, 15 Whimrel, 7+
Ringed Plover, 75+ Dunlin. 2 Golden Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper and 1
Sanderling -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
c40 Wheatear after light shower -
Red
Rocks.
Brief view of probable fem Pied Flycatcher, 2 Whinchat, 14 Wheatear and
good movement of 70 House Martin -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
May 10
1 Cuckoo heard -
Irby/Pensby.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
1 Cuckoo, 1 Whinchat and 3 Wheatear -
Red
Rocks.
1 Cuckoo and 1 Common Redstart -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
1 Great Egret, 6 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper and 1 Sanderling -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 9
Small passage of Swifts coming through.
1 Red Kite flew south over
Leasowe
Lighthouse then sighted from Hilbre flying over Grange Hill and
behind Caldy Hill.
1 Channel/Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
1 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.y
May 8
66 Grey Plover, 21 Ringed Plover, 40 Knot, 2150 Dunlin, 45 Whimbrel -
Heswall Shore.
1 Whinchat, 12 Greenland Wheatear, 3 Goosander and 1 male Eider -
Hilbre.
9 Wheatear -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Hobby over
Meols.
1 Hobby over A540 near -
Burton.
2 Whinchat and 2 Wheatear -
Burton Marsh.
May 7
2 Whinchat and 6 Wheatear -
Hoylake
Langfields.
1 male Common Redstart, 5 Wheatear in sheep field -
Burton Point.
1 Common Sandpiper and 3 Ruff -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
1 Eider (drake) on rock by clown roundabout -
New Brighton.
May 6
1 Osprey over, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Garganey (drake),
2 drake Pochard, 18 Wheatear, 1 male Whinchat and 4 Yellow Wagtail -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Cuckoo near Kerr's Field, 4 Wheatear and 2 Whinchat by Park Lane -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
187 Whimbrel -
Heswall Shore.
1 Hobby flew south -
Hilbre.
May 5
1 Osprey over just before 4pm, also 6+ Whinchat, 1 Garden Warbler
and 2 Grasshopper Warbler -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
3 Whinchat -
Red Rocks.
25 Wheatear and 1 Whinchat -
Denhall,
Burton Marsh.
24 Grey Plover, 42 Ringed Plover, 350 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 188
Curlew,
211 Whimbrel (193 off Heswall
Fields NT, 18 along near channel Target Rd to Riverbank Rd) another
record high -
Heswall Shore.
May 4
1 Swift, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 4 Whinchat, 26 Wheatear and 10
Stonechat -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Cuckoo heard by Typhoo factory -
Moreton.
6 Wheatear in field with muck heap -
Burton
Marsh.
6 Arctic Tern fishing off groyne -
Meols.
May 3
1 Garganey (drake) - on flood by
Pasture
Road, Moreton.
1 Hobby, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Tree Pipit, 4 Whinchat and 1 Lesser
Whitethroat, also passage of 210 Sand Martin and 100 Swallow -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Cuckoo over, 1 Whinchat (male), 6 Wheatear, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Great
Egret, 10 House Martin, 7 Sand Martin, 3 Ruddy Shelduck and 1 Lesser
Whitethroat between
Decca Pools and
Burton Point.
1 Little Gull this evening briefly, 4 Wood Sandpiper and a few Swifts -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Cuckoo -
Neston Old Quay.
164 Whimbrel -
Heswall Shore.
May 2
2 Wood Sandpiper -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Garganey (drake) - on flood by
Pasture
Road, Moreton.
1 Ring Ouzel (male), 1 Common Redstart (fem) and 1 Whinchat -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
3 Whinchat, 2 White Wagtail and 6 Wheatear -
Hoylake Langfields.
May 1
1 Cuckoo, 1 Grasshopper Warbler and 1 Kingfisher which flew over
paddocks -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
7+ Mediterranean Gull, 2 Ruff (s/pl), 3 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Spoonbill, 1
Common Sandpiper, 2
Spotted Redshank, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Wheatear
and at least 4 pairs of Cetti's Warbler
-
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Common Sandpiper -
West Kirby Marine
Lake.
170+ Swallow over -
Hilbre.
1 Grasshopper Warbler in fields, 31 Grey Plover and 107 Whimbrel -
Heswall Shore.