Monday 15 May 2017

Sunday , weather. Mainly cloudy sunny intervals wind westerly 15mph,

A very quiet day compared to the last few days ,  birds spotted AM: 4 Wheatear 1  Whinchat 1 Yellow Wagtail Flying over,  birds PM: 1 Yellow wagtail, 1 Whinchat, 5  Wheatear all in the coastal paddocks except 1 Wheatear on The groyne at Dove point, 2 Common Tern off shore, The Hooded crow was seen flying between Dove point and the fields by Lingham Lane and later in the day the Gun site,

Monday, Weather Heavy showers AM and PM, Wind,  South south west 12mph,

A very quiet day due mainly to the very poor rainy conditions, birds spotted AM and PM 2 Wheatear Yellow Wagtail, All in the Coastal paddocks, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker searching for grubs on a post at Kerrs field
Yellow Wagtail (Stan Davidson)  



Other birds in the area, a very fine Shore Lark was spotted early on Sunday morning at Hilbre Island , A bird that was once an annual visitor to the North Wirral Coast and now unfortunately counted in birding terms as a mega, the bird remained at Hilbre over night and was last seen on the north end of the island at 8AM this Morning,

Many Thanks for the Hardy regulars and visitors for the texts, tweets , emails and photographs they are much appreciated,

Observers DH KD TK SD TE EM NG GC

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