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    Massive Disturbance on North Wirral

    COCKLING ON LEASOWE SHORE: The cockle bed at Leasowe (off Leasowe Gunsite) has recently been opened by North West Fisheries for commercial cockling resulting in many vehicles on the beach racing up and down without any regard to local residents or the birdlife. This area is a Special Protection...
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    Point of Ayr Manx Shearwaters

    Hi I'm querying a record from 2009 which appears in the just published 2009 North-east Wales Bird Report - this is being done with the agreement of the NE Wales Bird Recorder and Bird Report Editor, Ian Spence. We would like to know who recorded the 11,000 Manx Shearwaters off Point of Ayr...
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    Short-eared Owls

    We had an amazing winter (2008/09) on the Dee Estuary (England/Wales) for Short-eared Owls when probably up to 50 were present, certainly counts between 20 and 30 were fairly regular throughout the winter. It's probably impossible to say where these birds breed but it has been said that one...
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    Please ID feather - Wirral, UK.

    See photo of feather found in back garden in Moreton, Wirral. It is six inches long. Any ideas of the bird species it came from?
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    Goose Hybrid?

    See attached photos of slightly odd looking goose which has been seen several times on Wirral near the Dee Estuary. It was first identified as a White-front which, seen from some distance, it looks like but as the photos clearly show it is not a White-front. The bird is associating with Greylag...
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    Unusual Oystercatcher behaviour?

    Tonight (1st March) I have about 150 Oystercatchers roosting next to a pond about a mile inland. This is within a small wildfowl collection where they often rest during the day. I don't know how frequently they roost here as I just happened to be walking past this pond at dusk tonight, I went...
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    Yet another gull!

    This probable Iceland Gull has been seen a couple of times on the sand bank off Leasowe Lighthouse (North Wirral) this week. Photographs by Colin Jones. But those primaries seem a bit pale choclaty rather than white so it doesn't seem quite right. The bird was slightly smaller than a Herring...
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    Juvenile gull

    This gull was seen on West Kirby beach (Wirral, UK) this afternoon. Looked a bit bigger, darker, browner and longer than a typical Herring gull juv. and plumage a bit dark for LBBG. Any ideas? Richard Smith www.deeestuary.co.uk
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