White-tailed Plover: WOW....I never thought I'd see a white-tailed plover in Greater Manchester, or in Wigan no less, and definitely not 4 miles away from my front door!
Gordon Newman, local birder who regularly patches Bickershaw expertly found the bird on the eastern side of the site on New Water Flash. By the time I arrived there were already a gaggle of local birders enjoying the local mega.
There has been some records in the north west including Seaforth in 2010 and Leighton Moss in 2007, a very rare bird indeed.
