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Female Marsh Harrier hanging about the fields at Alder Lane and Hall Lane next to opposite Fiddle pub. Vanishes into the barley and rape fields and then turns back up over the water putting everything up.

Very entertaining
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Male and Female Wheatear on the fields at Tibbs Cross Lane, on the Old St Helens -Widnes railway side. 3 Yellow Hammers a brown hare a couple of Linnets noted also. All on my way to work I may add. Very good for your well being.
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Carr Mill Dam

Black Tern was showing very well yesterday afternoon.

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Winnwick

Fiddle in bag, which is now basically two puddles, still giving the odd decent stuff.

3 Snipe
1 Common Sandpiper
Female Sparrowhawk

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Bird I saw today

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Juvenile Mediterranean Gull, Taylor Park


Juvenile Mediterranean gull currently on Taylor Park lake and showing very well. Found by Chris Derri.







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Wheatear st.helens town centre outskirts

Female Wheatear at the rear of Enterprise car hire off Liverpool Road 8:30am Sat 15.5.21.

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Ferny Knoll Road

Wheatear 4 female. Also: Shelduck 3, Oystercatcher 3, Grey Partridge 2 pairs, Raven one, Corn Bunting 2 in song and a pair of Grey Wagtail in a farmyard.

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Winwick Fields/Fiddle pool

8:30am -12:30pm
Pool opposite Fiddle
Redshank
Little stint not 100% but very likely
Little Grebe
Shoveller x 2 males only. Presume females are possibly sitting.
Yellow/grey and pied wagtail on at different times.
Grey heron
Gadwall 2 male
Swift's over(at least 6)and swallows feeding low over the water.




Paddocks,fields trees and hedgerows (Old Alder Lane)
10+ Yellow Wags
2 female northern wheatear
3 Yellow Hammers
Sedge Warbler
Grasshopper warbler ( heard reeling but not seen)
10 Linnet
3 buzzard
2 Oystercatchers
Skylarks about also tree sparrow, chaffinch, greenfinch, goldfinch.
Fir trees opposite pool plenty of goldcrests.


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Haydock Park

Blue-headed Wagtail flava male. One showing the characters of this 'species' today 0555-0620+ was also present on 5th April at 0750. There is a possibility that it's an inter-grade with Yellow flavissima a pair of which were also present today. Walk east along the Lodge Lane Pumping Station overflow track to the central 'crossroads'. The bird has been around the soil/waste heaps here and along the track northwards.

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Haydock Park

Redpoll 5 flew west at 0600; Wheatear pair; Yellow Wagtail 2 or 3.
Also: Meadow Pipit 2, Oystercatcher 3, Grey Partridge pair and an impressive 9 to 13 pairs of Stock Dove.

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20.00-20.30 Quick half an hour's observation on my way home from work at the fiddle proved to be a great idea.
20 Bar tailed godwits very actively feeding on the far side of the wetland.
2 Redshank
4 Yellow Wagtail/pied wagtail
4 Shovelers 2m/2fem
2 Dabchicks
I Male Wheatear
I possible male Whinchat , couldn't get a 100% positive ID, it was very flighty and the rain had started sheeting down. Lapwings and Swallows -good numbers and a buzzard going down for lapwing chicks..... unsuccessfully. This gem of a place just keeps getting better.

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Winnwick farmland

Couple of hours around the water opposite the fiddle and surrounding fields produced some great birds today.
10+ Yellow Wagtails
20+ Yellow Hammers
Redshank x 1
6 Buzzards high on the thermals
1 male Kes
Couple of Reed bunting
Plenty of Linnets
2 female Wheatear (In usual paddocks)
Few tree sparrow and the usual more common stuff.
Report off Matt Bannon a great guy I met for a chat also seen a Stone chat and yesterday a common sandpiper on the water opposite the fiddle.

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Ferny Knoll Road

Snipe 2; Oystercatcher 3 (pair plus one); Grey Partridge one; House Martin one or 2; Corn Bunting one in song.

{House Martin at Grasmere Avenue nest sites since 30th April}.

Derek Evans
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Newton Lake

Goosander 2 f, Shelduck one, Teal 3 (one m, 2 f), Gadwall 3 or more pairs.

Derek Evans
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Eccleston mere

In the adjoining fields
Whinchat (male)
Whitethroats
Sedge warbler
Reed bunting
Grasshopper warbler
Grey heron
Kestrel
4 Buzzards
Swifts/Swallows/House and Sand marrtins
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Winnwick

Paddocks on Alder Lane and the water opposite the Fiddle pub.
3 Redshank
1 Oystercatcher
2 Shoveller
Lapwings with a brood of six
8 Yellow wagtail
I Wheatear
2 Grey Partridge flushed
Blackcaps/ ChiffChaff/Willow warbler plenty of. A few Linnets and Chaffinch to note. A Canada on the nest on the bank of the canal and two mistle thrush going hell for leather with each other.
3 Buzzards on the thermals.
Great couple of hours.

Howard Arends

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