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  1. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Water Pipit, like the ones that winter every year at Neston Never actually seen or heard a Rock on the Dee only over at Hilbre .
  2. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Nice one Jeff, hope you did the walk to the spit rather than view from the mere south bank. You get a much better insight into the birds subtle colour tones and id-ing pipits from 200m away is just bonkers. And whilst I'm on what's the fixation with everybody trying to pin Water Pipit to it as...
  3. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    The two 'classic' calls you've got there JT sound exactly the same to me. Our bird has been heard once in a howling gale. Got any calls for littoralis? Some great photos now up on the Focalpoint website.
  4. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    surely then you're looking at a Water Pipit?
  5. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Very interesting Pipit on the sand spit at Kid Brook, Budworth Mere this evening. Initial thoughts are for littoralis type Rock Pipit :t: but some think Water Pipit :king: while the notion of a spring Buff-bellied Pipit :eek!:has not been ruled out. Help needed tomorrow if anyone's up for a...
  6. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    For you birders out there who use twitter there's now one covering the Marbury Patch Neumann's Flashes area at #marburypatch. Please spread the word or should I say retweet :t:
  7. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    They also stop any fishing or disturbance of the sea bed good news for all marine life.:t:
  8. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    A very early Little Ringed Plover :eek!: at Budworth Mere this evening could be the earliest record for Cheshire unless you know otherwise ;)
  9. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    It's all a big learning curve JB, if you get any more news from the Marbury area send your info to the Doc at the Focalpoint website cheers. A real Gypo Goose would cause quiet a twitch.:t:
  10. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    The bird present with plastic yellow ring is an Orinoco Goose usually found somewhere down the Amazon!! Obviously fence hopped from somewhere? The Sand Martin is still present on the mere.
  11. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    You been on the flowered wine again 1/2two? :-O
  12. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    It flew off at 17.30 not that they told anybody :C
  13. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    there you go you've just said it yourself :t: every July/August theres an abundance of Ruddy Shelduck records, too good to be a coincidence. And on a similar theme why is it most Red headed Buntings turn up in June on remote Western Islands? another coincidence or a well timed mass escape each...
  14. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Black Tern on Neumann's Flash this morning...its Autumn :t:
  15. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    and from which rule book is that ? :scribe:
  16. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Surely its up to the relevant County records committees to prove that these birds are escapes . Take for example the Bar-headed Goose seen last week at Budworth Mere, unringed and fully winged what's to say it didn't come over from Holland with the recent invasion of Ruddy Shelducks. ;)
  17. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    vagrants? :smoke:
  18. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    and where did you pinch this news from 3:-)
  19. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    On Hayden's Pool over at the Marbury Patch there's 8 Green Sandpiper, 2 LRPs and 6 Common Snipe. Budworth Mere still has 2 Common Tern but no sign of the recent imm male Mandarin. http://www.patchbirder.blogspot.com
  20. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    a bit of a sweeping statement just to make CAWOS life easy me thinks. There's now a regular post breeding dispersal in July/August time from the large feral population over in Holland, which according to AERC are tickable so get'em on your list :t:
  21. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    indecision costs ticks 8-P
  22. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    sounds like Woolston Eyes :-O
  23. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    The 2 Common Cranes are still at Chat Moss for 2nd day but no directions given, its a big place you know. Anyone out there got some local gen?
  24. McShifty

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    SO WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ANYBODY ABOUT IT:C
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