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  1. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    10m tides on the Dee, Tuesday 29th (1216 @ Hilbre ) and Wednesday 30th (1259 @ Hilbre ).
  2. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Hope you mean your canine! :eek!:
  3. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Hilbres first Redstart of the year today, among a good selection of migrants. http://www.hilbrebirdobs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/10th-april-2015.html?m=1
  4. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    7 Surf Scoter ( 4 ad males, 1 x 1st summer male and 2 females ) reported off Hoylake, accompanied by 1 x ad male Velvet Scoter and 2 Long-tailed Duck. 3+ Ring Ouzel at Hilbre. The first Yellow Wagtail of the year dropped into Leasowe for a couple of minutes. There were also 22 Wheatear, 2 White...
  5. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    For anyone who missed the last high tides at Parkgate ( or wants a second "bite of the apple" :t: ) there's 4 x 10m+ tides this month. Friday 20 March, 10m @ 1052hrs Saturday 21 March, 10•2m @ 1137hrs Sunday 22 March, 10•2 @ 1221hrs Monday 23 March, 10m @ 1305hrs p.s. The Laughing Gull...
  6. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    For anyone wanting to see the spectacle of the hightide at Parkgate there are 2 x 10m+ tides this month, and 4 in February. The times below are approximate, and it's best to get there at least an hour beforehand. Thursday, January 22, 10•1m @ 1215 Friday, January 23, 10•1m @ 1300...
  7. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    10-12 Long-tailed Duck off Leasowe yesterday and, during WEBS count, 3-4 c.1km off Meols groyne ( the one nearest Dove Point ) today. There could have been more, but the sea state, wind, rain and hail didn't help. :C
  8. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    "Just" Crossbill and a poss. OBP Jane? Life's a right bitch at times. ;) The Fieldfare were coming through on a line from Leasowe and passing S of the war memorial on Grange Hill ( with c200 on the ground / trees in the cemetery ). Also had c.150 Redwing over Gilroy white checking the Blackwits.
  9. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Fieldfare have started to come through in some numbers on the Wirral. I've had 6-700 heading W / SW over the house this morning already.
  10. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Skeins in the Sky and gaggles on the Ground. :t: There have been a few Redwing passing through Nth Wirral, but nothing spectacular - yet.
  11. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Just a heads up for high tides. The highest this month is a 9•9m @ 1219hrs (L/pool) on Thursday 9th. There's not much chance of the marsh at Parkgate being covered but the carpark at the bottom of Riverbank Road in Heswall could be productive.
  12. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    There was a site record of 1497 Blackwit at Gilroy ( Yes, I counted each single one :smoke: ), masses of waders -mainly Dunlin- at Hoylake and 1000+ Manxies off Hilbre today.
  13. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Jane's had her first for the year, this morning, at Hoylake. 970+ Blacktailed Godwit, 2 LRP and a Common Sandpiper at Gilroy - so far.
  14. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Most stuff will have left Red Rocks by then. You really need to be there by first light.
  15. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    An overview of the Red Rocks debacle - to date. http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/news.htm
  16. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    'Surprisingly' that was exactly the same excuse I got from the company doing the desktop survey of the Langfields for the proposed 'golf resort', even though I mentioned that if they checked my WEBs data, they'd find it was logged by individual fields. Sounds like there is a module in the "How...
  17. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Who did CWT contact? The more that comes out, the more it sounds like a knee-jerk / panic reaction on behalf of CWT. They really had nothing more on their minds than "NATTERJACKS", and bugger anything else.
  18. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    I'm not sure if Lynne has the results of Ian Wallace's surveys ( AFAIK he's carried out the only ones on the moth ) but it might be worthwhile getting in touch with one or the other. Bullet point 2 under threats says it all. CWT = Complacent, Worthless, Tossers.
  19. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Not just a Cheshire and Wirral or UK RDB species but, I think I'm right in saying, a global one ( along with the Equisetum ). They are further south, in the embryo dunes on the seaward side of the path. It's the areas with bare sand sparsely colonised by Sand Couch ( the food plant ).
  20. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    I've just got back from the shore, only a single male Wheatear just south of Pinfold steps, and while I was down there spoke to a few of the regular dog walkers about the 'improvements'. I'm not sure who CWT have spoken to but, with those I spoke to on Monday , only 4 out of 27 initially...
  21. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    I must admit, when I saw the area where the Poplars used to be, it was heartbreaking. It's far worse than any of the photos portrayed. "90% + cover of Common Reed" is down to lack of correct management. "Sources of enrichment should be investigated". The berm just to the south of the run off...
  22. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    Just had my first chance to get to Red Rocks to see what's been going on for myself. Apart from the felling of the Poplars ( with there own suite of invertebrates ), the digging of what I suspect are 'Natterjack Pools' in the saltmarsh ( about 1m square, right next to a clump of Phragmites that...
  23. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    I noticed that CWT aren't actually claiming to have 'managed the habitat' at Red Rocks, only that they do manage habitat somewhere / sometime. Their concern about Natterjacks and the other wildlife on the site was amply shown when the Open was held in 2006. They did absolutely nothing ( I, with...
  24. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    The problem is with 'ownership'. Red Rocks Marsh, and the dunes to West Kirby, are owned by RLGC, not CWT or the council. Although the marsh is a CWT reserve most, if not all, work has been carried out by, or overseen by, the council ( this situation is rather in limbo at present as the...
  25. chris butterworth

    Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast

    I'd heard they were going to be doing some work there, but I was led to believe it was only going to be the Sallows inside the marsh. That's just f*****g vandalism.
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