07/04/2017 Pennington Flash

Lapwing: A pleasant day spent birding locally starting off with the morning at penny, were I was hoping to see the Drake Garganey that has been on site for a couple of days.

But alas It had I missed it by an hour or so as the bird out of sight from the spit near Horrocks Hide.

Little Ringed Plover: Still there was plenty to see, including two Common Sandpiper, three Little Ringed Plover, two Shelduck and I also had my first Swallow of the year.

Horrocks was typically busy with birders all gabbing away so much so that I was actually surprised that a LRP came all the way down from the top end of the spit right under the hide despite the decibel levels.

Redshank: Struggling to out do the guys in the hide a Cetti's Warbler was singing from the right hand side of Horrocks.

These two were getting rather frsicky!

22/12/2013 West Kirby Marina Lake

Redshank: Before I started my last shift for CWT before a nice long Christmas break I decided I just had to make the most of the really good sunshine, especially knowing that the next few days we won't be seeing the sun anymore!





Turnstone:  So I headed down to the Marina Lake hoping for a good gull, but only seeing Black Headed and a few Herring loafing around on the pontoons.

The marina was busy with the local sailing club, so there where no birds on the water. However I did stumble across a small flock of Turnstone and a couple of Redshank on the rocks on the far side.

Some of my favorite waders close up looking brilliant in the morning sun.

02/03/2013 Hoylake

Slandering: High tide at Hoylake is always good, OK there are days where the tide just seeps slowing up and not much happens and time the tide forces the wading birds together and they put on an awesome aerobatic display.

Dunlin: Today was somewhere between, the weather was not the best for the tide to come up high, but it was nice for me! Sunny in the morning and bright until afternoon and best of all dry!

 There was tens of thousands of birds out on Hoylake shore and the tide came further then we all expected. There were reports of 400 Grey Plover along with 8000 Dunlin 2000 Knot and loads of Curlew and Redshank.

Redshank: A good day out all round followed by a short trip to New Brighton to check out the Purple Sandpipers.