Back to Marshside...

With all the revision and uni work that i have had to do recently, I haven't even had time to go over to one of my local patches at Southport, but finally last week, I managed to get our and see what was around..

I first had a quick walk around what was the Sand plant and found a couple of the usual inheritance:-

Wheatear

Reed Bunting

Kestrel

After this lovely start, I decided to head out onto the marsh to see if anything way around but it was quite quiet, the squealing of the swifts and the swooping of the swallows, a few Dunlin playing around in the shallow, such a gorgeous bird, it's the little thing that keep me happy, I didn't manage to get any pics of the little beauties but I did take a few of different birds flitting around:-

Avocet

Black Tailed Godwit

Anyway, I know that there's special but it please me to return and see some of the Ursula's... I hope that you enjoyed it to,

Thanks always Lee Harrison

Local Area..

I have a trip round the local turfs today with my Dad, I havn't bin out for a week so I was up for a good day, first we started off at Marshside, all the usuals knocking around, Reed and Sedge Warblers singing in the reeds, plenty of wheatears around the sand plant and reports of a Green Sandpipers and whitethroats sings near Crossens.

Unfortunatly we didn't manage to catch up with the whitethroat or the green sandpiper but plenty of othes knocking around including 3 Little Ring Plover, and Ruff feeding infront of Nell's hide:-

Wheatear

Greenfinch

Kestrel

After we had finished at Marshside, we decided to head over Mere Sands Wood, nothing unusual around, chiffchaffs singing in the tops of trees, no sign of the Crossbills today and no Redpolls either, but we got some nice views of the Nuthatch, and buzzard as we walked around:-

Nuthatch

Bullfinch

Buzzard

After Mere Sands, we decided that we'd go home and et some tea but as soon as we'd finished, we were back out to White Coppice trying to add more to our daily tally, and we managed to add a few more, including:-

Willow Warbler

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Raven (a very nice surprise)

And last but deffinatly not least this bird?????? we thought definatly a Falcon of sum sort, we, though it was a merlin at first because of the size of it, it was tiny but when I think back to the sights we've had of the Merlin at Marshside, it seemed smaller than that. After looking at the pics and trying to find what it was, we really have no idea, it has a brown back and wing, an unmarked buff breast, not many head marks apart from a very distinct eye strip, witch if you look closley, you can see.

Sorry about the distant pics, but if anyone can tell me what this bird is please help....

Thanks always Lee Harrison

Marshside's Coming to Form...

I decided to spend a day down at Marshside today with my Dad after the recent nice weather, but we were rather disappointed when the thick haze failed to clear till late afternoon but we were treated to a beautiful sunset, anyway Marshside was shaping up quite nicely, the odd Wheatears bobbing around behind the sand plant, Meadow Pipits a plenty, Skylarks singing all over the place, blackbirds and a very cooperative kestrel that let us get to within two metres of it before flying off into the evening sun.

Kestrel

Out on the marsh there was all the usual birds were floating around from here to there, lots of Avocets flying around which included one couples pairing up, mating and the female retreating into a scraping on a near by island.

Avocet

Elsewhere on the marshes, all the blackwits are gaining there summer plumage, which is always nice to see, unfortunately they were all to far away to get a picture, plenty of little egret around, all the golden plover gaining there summer plumage, small flocks of dunlin knocking around with one little stint in amongst them, snipe, lapwing and curlew all around the pools, also multiple redshanks with one dropping in to give us a nice close up view.

Redshank

Checking through all the gull that I could see today, i found no abnormalities knocking around, although whilst watching a Lesser black black washing in what could only be described as an unusual way i managed to get a few pics, there not anything special but here they are...

Lesser Black Backed Gull

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thanks always Lee Harrison.