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  1. two green sandpipers at mere sands wood today am .

    Comment by phil boardman | March 7, 2010 | Reply

  2. hello all. at mere sands wood a bittern was seen from the lanc hide around 1500 hrs today also a kingfisher and woodcock. try my flickf .

    Comment by phil boardman | February 21, 2010 | Reply

  3. Formby again yesterday: big Siskin and other finch flock on Old Fisherman’s path had at least one Common Redpoll yesterday. Still plenty of Common Scoter and Great-crested Grebe from the shore long after high tide.

    Comment by Simon Glinn | February 21, 2010 | Reply

  4. Formby again yesterday with Bones and Jason. No easy close-ups like Saturday but possibly 4 Velvets in distant flight; 100+ GC Grebes, 40+ Red-throated Divers, 300+ Common Scoter. Best was a pair of Red-breasted Mergansers in full courtship display. Plenty of Barwits on shore. A flock of Siskins in the pinewoods on Old Fisherman’s path; tame fox in the National Trust reserve; Redpoll sp at Wick’s Lane. Still no Treecreeper for the year … 2 Tundra Bean Geese on Plex Moss Lane …

    Comment by Simon Glinn | February 15, 2010 | Reply

  5. Formby today, 3 Velvet Scoter close to shore, plus 2 Red-breasted Mergansers, more than a dozen Great-crested Grebes, a few score Scoter, Bar-tailed Godwit on shore … a handful of Fieldfare in the sea-buckthorn at the end of Fisherman’s path, Common Buzzard overhead. The ringed Great White Egret was back at Marshside with hen Harrier and several Short-eared owls; 48 Twite between Weld Rd and the Pier; Med Gull and 2 Peregrines at Martin Mere.

    Comment by Simon Glinn | February 13, 2010 | Reply

  6. GBB gull tearing apart a Moorhen from sandgrounders, plus two Little Egrets and three well camouflaged snipe, on crossens outer at least three SEO and a very accomodating Kestrel, pics on my flickr site

    Comment by Frank Whitney | January 23, 2010 | Reply

  7. Great White Egret briefly again today around one o clock before flying out to shoreline, also four Short Eared Owls and Little Egrets and plenty of Herons. GWE may have came back though i didn’t see it, some guy said there was a big crane over there and pointed in a vague direction

    Frank

    Comment by Frank Whitney | January 1, 2010 | Reply

  8. Great White Egret showing well at Marshside also male Hen Harrier and four Short Eared Owls including one outside Nels flying across the road,3 Kestrels, one with Vole, two Sparrowhawks, one Weasel, but no partridge in a pear tree

    Frank

    Comment by Frank Whitney | December 28, 2009 | Reply

  9. Shorelark still present this morning,at N end of green beach before reaching the pier,bumped into the bird on way back home after I thought id dipped!! poor record shots on my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/apbirdman

    Comment by Andy Pryce | November 9, 2009 | Reply

  10. hi all a shore lark southport nr weld rd car park (beach) pics on my flickf .

    Comment by phil boardman | November 8, 2009 | Reply

  11. Red Kite over Maghull 12.30 5th November being mobbed by gulls

    Comment by K Hopkins | November 6, 2009 | Reply

  12. Long-billed Dowitcher, 2 Spotshanks, 5 Liitle Egrets at Banks Marsh this morning. Marsh Harrier, 7 Whoopers and a Merlin at Hesketh Out Marsh lunchtime.
    Colin

    Comment by Colin Bushell | October 27, 2009 | Reply

  13. hello all a female merlin and 66 whoopers on plax moss today at 4 15 pm

    Comment by phil boardman | October 23, 2009 | Reply

  14. i had a poss juv cuckoo over the A59 near brockall at 2 30 pm today going s sw .

    Comment by phil boardman | October 19, 2009 | Reply

  15. Marshside today: Ring-tailed Hen Harrier, male Marsh Harrier, female Peregrine ~ all three of which got involved in a skirmish for a few minutes late afternoon. Plus 2 Merlin (m&f), 3 Kestrel, 1m Peregrine, 1 Grey Wagtail and 12 Redwings passing through, 3 Ruff, 4 Golden Plover, a Greenshank and then all the usual … lots of Little Egrets throughout the recording area, probably 40+; plenty of Wigeon and Teal; Pink-footed, Canada and Barnacle Geese; 40+ Redshank; 120+ Black-tailed Godwits; 200+ Northern Lapwing; Linnet; Meadow Pipits; 3 Swallows; 4 Little Grebe; 3 Pintail; 90+ Mallard; 30+ Shoveller; 3 Great Black-backed Gulls; 1 Curlew …

    Comment by Simon Glinn | October 11, 2009 | Reply

  16. hello all, two great white egrets and two spotted redshanks also one marshy at leighton moss .( shots on my flickr )

    Comment by phil boardman | October 1, 2009 | Reply

  17. 27/9/09: A roost of 44 Little Egrets at SOUTHPORT MARINE LAKE this morning. Greenshank, Snipe, Curlew, Juvenile water rail and a further 4 little egrets at marshside from sandgrounders hide.

    Comment by Carl | September 27, 2009 | Reply

  18. Excellent birds at Old Wooky Hollow Farm, Banks Marsh on Weds afternoon (4pm) until wildfowler put most to flight, to join dog-fighting Eurofighters from Warton.

    > 30 Little Egrets, one Great White Egret (often very distant), two Spoonbills, hordes of waders, Dunlin, Little Stint, Greenshank, etc., earlier Green Sand, Curlew Sands and Spotted Reds. 2,000 plus Wigeon, some Pinkfeet.

    John Bannon

    Comment by John Bannon | September 17, 2009 | Reply

  19. 1 Wheatear and a fine Barn Owl around the Sand Plant this evening.

    Comment by Neill | September 16, 2009 | Reply

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