1 Eagle Owl seen and heard in Pensby (near Heswall) this morning at 3.20am.
2,300 Black-tailed Godwit, 275 Grey Plover, 7 Spotted Redshank and 500+ Wigeon - Connah's Quay Reserve.
3 Bewick's Swan, 1 Raven, 1 Greenshank and 50+ Linnet - Inner Marsh Farm.
6 Brent Geese (pale-bellied) - Red Rocks at high tide.
120 Pintail - Heswall Marsh at high tide.

4,500 Knot, 1,200 Dunlin, 350 Grey Plover and 1 Brent Goose - West Kirby Shore at high tide.
6 Brent Geese and 347 Cormorant on Little Eye at high tide.
7 Common Scoter, 2 Gannet and 59 Turnstone, 1 Brambling over - Wallasey Shore.
2 Barn Owl - Hoylake Langfields at dusk.

1 Marsh Harrier (juv), 1 Little Stint, 2 Water Rail, 1 Ruff and 208 Pintail - Inner Marsh Farm.
1 Snow Bunting - Connah's Quay Reserve.
64 Little Egret in flight over Burton Marsh at dusk.

1 Long-tailed Duck (fem) off Red Rocks at high tide.
3 Peregrine, 3 Short-eared Owl, 67 Little Egret and 15 Pink-footed Geese - Parkgate Marsh over high tide.
1 Snow Bunting - Connah's Quay Reserve, in car park by west hide.
1 Great Northern Diver, 4 Red-throated Diver, 1 Brent Goose (Pale-bellied), c150 Pintail, 11 Common Scoter, 3 Red-breasted Merganser, c620 Shelduck, 47 Guillemot, 1 Merlin, 2 Sandwich Tern, c6,500 Oystercatcher, c3,000 Knot, c750 Redshank, c500 Dunlin, c500 Curlew, c250 Black-tailed Godwit, c80 Grey Plover and 2 Spotted Redshank - Point of Ayr before and during high tide.

1 Slavonian Grebe on sea off West Kirby Marine Lake before high tide.
1 Marsh Harrier - Heswall, Riverbank Rd, after high tide, 1 Peregrine and 1 Greenshank earlier.
1 Merlin, 3 Peregrine, 1 Short-eared Owl, 12+ Guillemot, 2 Spotted Redshank, 1 Greenshank, c400 Black-tailed Godwit, c150 Pintail, c4,500 Oystercatcher and 5 Red-breasted Merganser - Point of Ayr.
2 Peregrine, 1 Hen Harrier (ringtail), 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Short-eared Owl and 2 Greenshank - Parkgate Marsh over high tide.
1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Little Stint, 21 Golden Plover, 2 Water Rail, 2 Ruff and 100+ Linnet - Inner Marsh Farm.
310 Chaffinch, 7 Brambling, 10 Siskin and 58 Meadow Pipit on passage overhead, also 12 Reed Bunting, 25 Skylark, 1 Short-eared Owl and 1 Firecrest in the marsh/reed bed area - Red Rocks.

2 Brent Geese (dark and light bellied) - West Kirby at high tide.
1 Firecrest and 2 Wheatear - Red Rocks.
2 Slavonian Grebe, 75 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Long-tailed Duck (fem), 2 Brent Geese, 2 Puffin and 150 Razorbill - Hilbre Island this morning.
1 Hen Harrier (ringtail), 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Peregrine, 1 Raven and 2 Stonechat - Hoylake Langfields.
1 Green-winged Teal (drake) at Inner Marsh Farm.
1 Greenshank and 1 Water Rail - Heswall Shore, water rail came out of marsh off Target Rd at high tide.

97 Common Scoter, 24 Gannet, 2 Red-breasted Merganser, 23 Great Crested Grebe, 7 Guillemot, 2 White Wagtail, 1 Wheatear and a probable Red-necked Grebe - Red Rocks at high tide.
6 Red-breasted Merganser, 62 Redshank, 47 Turnstone and 1 Raven - West Kirby Marine Lake. 
1 Black Redstart and 1 Wheatear on lawn of Red Rocks Nursing Home at 4pm.
1 probable Velvet Scoter off West Kirby at high tide.
9,000 Dunlin - Meols Shore as tide went out.

8,100 Oystercatcher, 3,300 Dunlin, 407 Curlew, 36 Bar-tailed Godwit, 210 Grey Plover and 30 Sanderling - West Kirby Shore at high tide, 2 Stonechat in the sand dunes.
280 Shelduck, 4 Teal and 1 Peregrine - Little Eye.
1 Water Rail on Hilbre.
2,000 Knot, 111 Black-tailed Godwit, 183 Lapwing and 1 Greenshank - Heswall Shore, also inland 1,743 Jackdaw most flying south with 5 Raven, 15 Redwing and 20 Fieldfare.
650 mixed corvids, 465 Fieldfare and 76 Redwing flying SW over Burton Marsh.
1 Little Gull, 50 Golden Plover, 2 Little Stint, 5 Ruff and 5 Bewick's Swan - Inner Marsh Farm.

1 Great Grey Shrike - Hoylake Langfields, seen again this morning at 9.30am - take f/pth at end of Carr Lane & take left hand path at T-jctn + view S to hedges around setaside, also 22 Fieldfare.
1 Guillemot, 162 Sanderling, 1,300 Knot, 11 Bar-tailed Godwit, 9 Great Crested Grebe and 1 Common Scoter - Wallasey Shore.
9 Greenshank, 7 Spotted Redshank, 1 Snow Bunting and 2-3,000 Black-tailed Godwit - Connah's Quay Reserve.

1 Great Grey Shrike - Hoylake Langfields, seen this morning but no reports since 11am - take f/pth at end of Carr Lane & take left hand path at T-jctn + view S to hedges around setaside, also 6 Stonechat and 1 Short-eared Owl.
1 Grey Wagtail and 2 Red-breasted Merganser - West Kirby Marine Lake.
850 Chaffinch, 13 Brambling, 23 Siskin, 2 Grey Wagtail and 975 Starling south over Red Rocks.
153 Chaffinch and 2 Brambling south over Heswall Shore this morning, also 250 Lapwing, 36 Golden Plover, 18 Little Egret and 4,000 Knot.

1 Great Grey Shrike - Hoylake Langfields, seen this afternoon up until 5.50pm, showing at end of Carr Lane.
1 Short-eared Owl off Gayton, early afternoon.
40 Golden Plover - Heswall Shore.
4 Stonechat - Leasowe Gunsite.
12 Great Crested Grebe in channel at low tide, 2,100 Shelduck on sand bank and 4 Common Buzzard inland - Greenfield.

1 Hen Harrier (ringtail) came into roost at Parkgate this evening.
100 Song Thrush, 122 Redwing, 100 Chaffinch, 127 Fieldfare and 12 Blackbird heading south over Thurstaston Country Park (by visitor centre) between 7.30 and 9.30am.

14,500 Oystercatcher, 4,000 Knot and c4,000 Shelduck plus the usual hundreds of Redshank, also a light southward passage of just 60 Fieldfare and 100 Wood Pigeon - Thurstaston Shore.
1 Wheatear, 4 Raven, 4 Rook (scarce here) and 1 Arctic Tern - Hilbre Island this morning.
500 Fieldfare and c60 Snipe - Hoylake Langfields.
1 Ring Ouzel (male) - Red Rocks (on the golf course), also 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker in garden of nursing home, 220 Fieldfare, 300 Chaffinch, 14 Brambling, 3 Raven, 6 Tree Sparrow, 25 Siskin and 1 Peregrine over.
2 Whooper Swan over Neston.
38 Fieldfare - Thurstaston Hill.
1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Bewick's Swan and 3 Whooper Swan - Inner Marsh Farm.
19 Little Egret - Heswall Shore at high tide.

1 Rosefinch with Tree Sparrows at 9am, also 2000+ Chaffinch, 100 Siskin, 45 Skylark and 20 Brambling flying south, 1 Firecrest by the boardwalk - Red Rocks.
Light passage of Grey Wagtail over Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby, c15 in three hours.
32 Redwing, 27 Mistle Thrush and 410 mixed corvids flying S/SE - Thurstaston Shore, also 21 Skylark in field on cliff top, 1 Raven flying NE and 650 Knot on the shore.
1 Brent Goose (pale-bellied) - Hilbre.

1 Grey Phalarope flying west - Hilbre this morning.
30+ Fieldfare and 100 Redwing - Hoylake Langfields near Manor Rd Station.
20 Greenshank - Connah's Quay Reserve.

50 Snipe and 3 Jack Snipe -  Hoylake Langfields.
9 Shoveler and 1 singing Chiffchaff at Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby.
114 Chaffinch, 31 Greenfinch, 38 Fieldfare and 60 Meadow Pipit flying south by Leasowe Lighthouse.
2 Rock Pipit - Dove Point, Meols.
First for Cheshire and Wirral - 1 Radde's Warbler south of Leasowe Lighthouse, along Lingham Lane, Moreton, on bank by golf course and brick pit, just past white five bar gate, please do not enter fields, seen several times this afternoon and last seen 6.30pm, also 1 Yellow-browed Warbler close to the Lighthouse.
2 late House Martin - Heswall Shore.

Report from Jane Turner at Red Rocks, counts 08:15 to 11:00am, with the bracketed count being the first hour : Chaffinch 7,360 (4,850). Bearing in mind the number I missed that were too high to see, or cut the corner, or even more relevantly, in the 45 mins of (peak) passage before I started counting, I'm sure well in excess of 10,000 moved through this morning. Birds came along the N Wirral coast and then followed the estuary southwards (as far as I could tell). With them were a record Red Rocks count of Siskin 524 (285). The passage of Siskin peaked later in the morning than the Chaffinches. Also Brambling 87 (62) Redpoll 2, Song Thrush 11, Mistle Thrush 2, Rock Pipit 2, Meadow Pipit 35, Greenfinch 180, Snow Bunting 1, Linnet 60, Reed Bunting 10, Skylark 31, Tree Sparrow 6, Snipe 2, Woodpigeon 1 and Grey Wagtail 1. There were a few birds moving through at ground level too, mostly tits, but also a very bright male Firecrest.

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