The White Tailed
#Eagle
again showing well from
#patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse with regular flights today to evade the miffed local Gulls. Seriously impressive 🦅
@BirdGuides
So apparently I just need to calm down as Fido ‘won’t do anything, e just likes to chase em’ 🤬 Missing the point aren’t you, you fucking numpty!! Boils my piss the disregard some people have for nature or other people!!
Apologies for the expletive’s but HOLY FUCK!! Stunning Honey Buzzard just circled in over my head along Carr Lane and headed N towards Burnt Mill Farm
@CAWOSBirding
@CHESHIREBIRDING
Just had to share these absolutely stunning pics taken by Mike Roberts of one of the Ringtails kicking around Hale at the moment. Not sure how anyone could take pleasure in killing such awesome birds
#raptors
#henharrier
#patchbirding
Decided to pop in on the local
#peregrines
on the way home. Not sure who was more excited, me or them, to watch one of them plucking a recent catch
#LocalBigYear
#birding
It may have been about 1.5 miles away…but the excitement of finding this 2cy White Tailed Eagle on
#patchbirding
is hard to explain. A lot of very happy local birders made it even better 😁 Mid-summer lull did I say?? 😂
Didn’t expect the White Tailed Eagle to reappear on
#patchbirding
again! Watched as it flew in from the W and land on Frodsham Score. Amazing barn doors in flight 😍
@RareBirdAlertUK
Heartbreaking morning when I found 2 beached Common
#Dolphin
on the Mersey. A massive thank you to
@BDMLR
for responding so quickly. Keeping every crossed that they are able to be safely returned back to water and back out into the Irish Sea 🤞🤞
Oh my god!!! A bloody Alpine Swift over my house in Mossley Hill, Liverpool heading towards Mather Avenue!!!!!!! Thank god the footy was so 💩 or I’d still be inside!!
@BirdGuides
@RareBirdAlertUK
Hudsonian Godwit on the Mersey at Hale, Cheshire. Took an age to see a brief underwing view. Viewing from here ///shave.market.cubes and bird is roughly at ///remote.calculating.tender
@RareBirdAlertUK
@BirdGuides
Having been knocked sideways with covid for a few days it’s good to know I’ve got no lasting brain fog when I found this beautiful winter plumaged Ptarmigan on
#patchbirding
Can’t remember the last time I saw 9
#raptor
species in the UK....but a pretty awesome day at Hale. Red Kite, Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Peregrine, Hobby, Kestrel, Sprawk and then topped off by this Osprey on Hale Decoy 😜🤘
#birding
So I went round to EBO for some celebratory cake after the Serin....only to find it singing away there!! Almost the identical spot the Sibe Accentor was in 😍
#spurnbirds
@RareBirdAlertUK
@BirdGuides
Depressing evening
#patchbirding
channel dug to drain CLP, hedges destroyed to replace fencing, along with Town Lane being drained, all in peak breeding. Feel totally demoralised about the state of peoples attitudes towards nature these days 😥
Well worth the quick drive up the M57 to catch up with the
#Hoopoe
at Ince Blundell. The chatty man was suitably impressed 😁 Nice to catch up with one in the NW…first I’ve seen in the UK in a number of years
#birding
#dirtytwitching
Not quite as exciting at Oglet this afternoon, but still some good value
#migrants
about 2 Swallow, 4 WW, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Whitethroat, Whinchat, 9 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wag, White Wag
#birding
Bonkers! Now 4 Shag at Queens Dock by the Water Sports Centre! Great find
@PeteBrash
Nice little
#LocalBigYear
tick and a nice diversion after work 😁
#birding
2023
#patchbirding
lacked a ‘proper’ mega, but 174sp seen inc
#patchtick
Smew, Kumlien’s Gull & White Tailed Eagle, alongside some scarcer bits like Temminck’s Stint, Pec Sand, Glauc, Cattle Egrets, Waxwing, Firecrest, Twite, Hawfinch etc. More of the same for 2024 please 😁🤞
🚨Cuteness Alert 🚨 Despite the excellent
#patchbirding
this was actually my highlight. A young Field Mouse(?) which I helped back into the hedgerow from the middle of the road! Absolutely tiny! Stay safe little one 😁
#mammals
Always nice watching Black Winged Kite-Chats at close range 😁 Never noticed the tail-bobbing before?! Nice soundtrack of Bee-eater to go along with it too. Loving
#birding
in 🇵🇹
What a time to be alive! Celebrated being able to access Twitter again by finding 2 unringed, fully-winged and wary Bar Headed Geese with the post breeding flock of Canadas on
#patchbirding
. Look shattered after their long
#migration
Was just heading home from a
#patchbirding
drenching when I noticed a
#BarnOwl
getting a right going over from a Black Headed Gull. Thankfully it pitched down to allow a few
#phonescoped
pics. What a beauty!! 😍
The 3cy ♀︎White Tailed
#Eagle
G542 still present on the Mersey from
#patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse. Sat on sandbanks to the SW about midriver. Waiting for it’s breakfast….
@RareBirdAlertUK
Love having the
#Wheatear
back. Watched one cross the Mersey and drop in at my feet. Proper
#migration
in action. Think we may need some more fence posts at BMF though 😁
#LocalBigYear
#birding
I still remember in the mists of time when seeing an
#Egret
of any type in the UK would make for a good day…...
With the numbers about now, they barely get mention! How times change! 🤪
Well that was definitely not on the radar for today!! Singing Wood Warbler in Hale Park!! Only my 2nd Patch Record and first since 2013
#kaboooom
#pwc2019
@CHESHIREBIRDING
Continually checking the
#patchbirding
finch flocks coming down the seed finally pays off. My second patch record of Twite and first since 2015 💪 Hopefully it’ll stick until the NY now 🤞
#BelatedChrimboPressie
A few screen grabs of the Honey-Buzzard from Friday. Quite distinctive gaps in both L & R S10/9 and notched on L P7/6/5, would be interesting to see if it’s picked up elsewhere
#patchbirding
#LocalBigYear
Mind. Totally. Blown 🤯 The
#vismig
in south Liverpool has been insane. Constant flocks of Redwings and latterly Fieldfare moving at rooftop height. Would have loved to have been out
#patchbirding
properly. But the
#tseep
and
#tsaktsaktsak
is a great soundtrack to work to 😁
Brilliant to watch a couple of Barn Owls hunting this morning. This one was a successful hunt ending up taking a small mammal away….maybe not so brilliant for the mouse or vole though 🫣
#birding
An exceedingly frustrating
#patchbirding
visit this afternoon, high expectations to spend my time grilling
#wader
flocks…only to find dogs running off the lead and people walking through the roost area 🤬 A few birds reappeared after a 90 min wait…so not a total waste 🤦♂️
Non-birding (haha, as if any trip is non-
#birding
) trip to the
#Wirral
with a quick stop off at New Brighton and Wallasey. Great to see
#SnowBunting
again for the first time in ages. Stunning and confiding little birds 😍
Fight or flight…or maybe a bit of both. Amazing watching this Peregrine targeting a single Pink footed Goose over the Mersey
#patchbirding
@BBCSpringwatch
Formerly a breeder on
#patchbirding
until the last pair c.5 years ago…Great to catch up with a singing Corn Bunting, 🤞 it finds a mate. Bird of the Day by a country mile!
So apparently there is new legislation that has been brought in that requires all birders to post pics of their 1st Wheatear of the year, no matter how bad they are 🤘 Spring! Bring it on baby. 2 at BMF
#patchbirding
This one legged Common Sandpiper turned up in late June on
#patchbirding
and has remained throughout. Amazing how well it copes…and even still manages to tail bob too 😁
Woooooooooosssshh!! Screeeeeeeeech!! The local
#Swifts
are home finally 😁 Although it feels late they’re actually 2 days earlier than last year. Made my day 😁
#LocalBigYear
#birding
Phew!! ……and relax!! Don’t often leave
#patchbirding
territory, but typical that when I do a couple of good birds turn up! Nice that they both stuck around for me to get back! Nice finds by
@IanIgglesden
and
@osprey55a
😁🙌
Undoubted highlight of the
#wadertastic
#patchbirding
was at least 5 Little Stint. But to have over 4k
#waders
so close was an absolute pleasure having had the frustration of counting dots (wondering what may be hidden amongst them) at c1 mile for the last few weeks 😁
Absolute belter of a breeding plumage Spotted Redshank E of
@patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse. Don’t often get them in this plumage 😍 Autumn most definitely here!!
The great thing about
#whitewingers
is that even in near darkness they stand out like a sore thumb!! One of at least 2 adults into roost on
#patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse tonight.
An enjoyable dawn start at Savoura Lake with a few nice bits, 25 Glossy Ibis, 8 Scopoli’s, ♂︎ Golden Oriole, RB Shrike, Eastern Olivaceous, Eastern Subalpine, and a few waders etc…but the 🌟 for me were plenty of purring Turtle Dove 😍
#corfubirding
Most Tree Pipits at Hale
#patchbirding
are flyovers (only seen 2 on the deck previously), so was very nice to see 5 ‘grounded’ birds today along Carr Lane. Conveniently perching up nicely on the lines. Such smart little
#pipits
#LocalBigYear
Mind blowing numbers of
#Pinkies
coming into roost on the
#patchbirding
Mersey tonight. Not sure what the highest count is for the Mersey but this must be close or beaten it?! Estimated c15-20k with more coming in!! 🤯
Well that has made my evening! Haven’t seen a Tawny Owl in daylight hours for what seems like a very long time! But it was made even better when there were 2 fluffballs with it 😍
#birding
#Redstart
is one of my favourite summer
#migrants
This is the 3rd male on
#patchbirding
already this year, but this one was by far the smartest of them 😍 Just a shame about the heathaze this afternoon…but not complaining like 😂
You little Belter!!!! Having a quick spruce up after a successful fish 😁 1st non
#patchbirding
and
#dirtytwitching
of the year and first BOU
#lifer
in over a year. Well worth the short drive up the M6
#no458
A nice
#quadruple
on
#patchbirding
Town Lane tonight with a Wood Sand, Spotshank, Green Sand and then topped off by 2 Garganey that flew in over my head and landed on the main pools (my first
#patch
birds in over 2 years!!).
1st
#birding
in 3 months gave me a huge mental boost - Red Kite, 2 LRP, Swallow, White Wag, Water Pipit, Merlin, Peregrine, 2 Ruff, Kingfisher, Cetti’s, 28 Blackwit, 2 Pintail, singing Chiffs and Blackcap the notables around CLP/Town Lane
#naturalhealthservice
#bringonspring
Couldn’t resist coming back for seconds….the trio of Pec Sand, Temminck’s Stint and Wood Sand showing outrageously well with
@IanIgglesden
and Mark Garner.
Bit of 📹 of the Lesser
#Yellowlegs
at
#Marshside
(Crossens Inner) this afternoon. Feels like a long time since my last one, but certainly one of the most showy I’ve seen. Stunning little
#waders
#twitching
Marginally better brief views of the Sefton Park
#Kingfisher
on todays
#poochmooch
They have been a lot harder to see this winter compared to normal for some reason
#alwaysbirding
You say Hoo, I say Poe…Hoo-Poe, Hoo-Poe. One of the birds I enjoy most about 🇵🇹 Mediterranean
#birding
Plenty about this morning, but always amazing how well they blend in to the background!!