Archived Latest Sightings:
May and June 2026.
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sightings from September 2000.
Jun 30
1 Common Sandpiper on Donkey Stand Flash, 3 Spoonbill and 1 Greenshank
on Boathouse Flashes -
Parkgate.
2 Quail calling -
Burton Marsh.
3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover and 1
male Ruff, 2 juv Marsh Harrier over marsh -
Decca Pools.
Note: Late news - Jun 25 1
Roseate Tern - West Kirby Shore.
Jun 29
1 'Channel' Yellow Wagtail, 1 Willow Tit, 2 juv Little Ringed Plover, 2
Spotted Redshank, 2 Ruff, 400 Knot and 28 Bar-tailed Godwit -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Spotted Redahank and 2 Spoonbill, 1 Barn Owl hunting over marsh early
morning -
Parkgate.
Jun 28
1 Spotted Redshank Bevyl Road Flash and 1 Quail calling off golf course
-
Parkgate.
3 Little Ringed Plover (ad with 2 juv) and 1 Green Sandpier, 2 Yellow
Wagtail in adjacent field -
Decca Pools.
10 Mediterranean Gull with c15 Common Gull and 200 Black-headed Gull -
Thurstaston Shore.
1 Hobby hunting hirundines over Fox and Hound -
Barnston.
Jun 27
1 Red Kite over at noon, also 1 Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank and 4
Spoonbill early morning -
Parkgate.
4 Little Ringed Plover -
Decca Pools.
6 Mediterranean Gull and 400 Black-headed Gull over high tide -
Heswall Shore.
3 Spotted Redshank -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Grasshopper Warbler by horse field next to marsh -
Neston Marsh.
Jun 26
1 Whimbrel, 3 Mediterranean Gull (adult), 1 Little Tern, 40 Sandwich
Tern, c400 Black-headed Gull and 2,000 Oystercatcher over high tide -
West Kirby Shore.
8 Avocet on Bevyl Road Flash -
Parkgate.
1 Quail heard this evening -
Burton Marsh.
Jun 25
5 Spoonbill, 11 Great White Egret on Boathouse flash. 1 Common
Sandpiper and 40 Redshank on Bevyl Road flash and 1 Barn Owl
hunting
marsh -
Parkgate.
30 Sandwich Tern, 6 Common Tern and c300 Black=headed Gull over high
tide -
West Kirby Shore.
1 Red Kite over Leahurst Vet Campus -
Neston.
Jun 24
8 - 10 Glossy Ibis flew north
at 7pm -
Parkgate.
1 Barn Owl, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper and 1 Little Ringed
Plover -
Decca Pools.
4 Spoonbill -
Boathouse Flash, Parkgate.
1 Grasshopper Warbler bottom of Station Raod -
Burton Marsh.
5 Spotted Redshank --
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 23
2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Spoonbill and 1 Water Rail -
Decca Pools.
1 Greenshank -
Leasowe Shore.
Jun 22
2 Red-breasted Merganser, 65 Little Egret, 480 Oystercatcher, 23
Lapwing, 2 Whimbrel, 472 Curlew, 75 Redshank, 4 adult Mediterranean
Gulls, 250 Black-headed Gull, a noticable increase in birds on the
ebbing tide early morning -
Heswall Shore.
Jun 21
4 Spoonbill, 12 Great White Egret and 1 Barn Owl -
Parkgate.
1 Quail heard this evening on marsh -
Hoylake
Shore.
1 Hobby over -
Lower Heswall.
Jun 20
4 Spoonbill and 1 Barn Owl -
Parkgate.
Jun 18
4 Spoonbill on Boathouse Flash -
Parkgate.
Jun 17
1 Quail heard and 1 Hobby -
Burton Marsh.
Jun 15
300 Bar-tailed Godwit, 600 Knot, 8 Whimbrel, 110 Curlew, 28
Ringed
Plover, 12 Dunlin, 38 Sandwich Tern and 40 Little38, Little Tern, 16
Swift overhead -
Point of Ayr.
Jun 14
6 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
1 Quail heard, 1 Hobby hunting behind Decca Pools -
Burton Marsh.
1 Quail heard on marsh just south of
Neston
Old Quay.
1 Osprey circled then headed west -
Lower
Heswall.
Jun 13
2 Little Gull (ads) -
New Brighton.
2 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
Jun 12
8 Whimbrel, 25 Ringed Plover, 110 Curlew, 312 Bar-tailed Godwit, 200
Knot, 240 Oystercatcher (incl a pair with three small chicks) and 20
Sandwich Tern -
Point of Ayr.
Jun 10
2 Spoonbill on Donkey Stand Flash -
Parkgate.
630 Knot (7% in s/pl), 485 Black-tailed Godwit and 44 Bar-tailed Godwit
--
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Quail singing on marsh end of Marshlands Road -
Little Neston.
Jun 9
1 Spoonbill on donkey Stand Flash -
Parkgate.
Jun 7
2 Spoonbill on donkey Stand Flash -
Parkgate.
Jun 6
1 Little Gull -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
Jun 4
1 Spotted Flycatcher in private garden -
Saughall.
Jun 3
1 Hobby flew past bottom of Denhall Lane -
Burton
Marsh.
Jun 2
3 Arctic Skua (dark phase) flew west this morning -
Leasowe Gunsite.
May 31
1 Spoonbill and 9 Great White Egret -
Parkgate.
1 Arctic Tern (1st sum) -
Point of Ayr.
May 30
100+ Sanderling and 210+ Little Tern -
Gronant.
May 29
1 Osprey flew inland past Carr Farm -
Meols.
May 28
1 Spotted Flycatcher in fields next to village, and 1 Red Kite over -
Ledsham.
May 27
1 Spoonbill and 8 Great White Egret, still 3 Pink-footed Geese on the
marsh -
Parkgate.
May 25
1 Hobby hunting Swifts over Grange Hill -
West Kirby.
1 Barn Owl -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Scaup (drake) still with Mute Swan friend and now getting very tame -
West Kirby Marine Lake.
May 24
1 Whinchat and 1 Barn Owl -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
May 23
1 Garganey (drake) -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
May 22
1 Whinchat, at least 2 Spotted Flycatcher and 1 Whinchat -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Spotted Flycatcher briefly in bushes by car park -
Riverbank Road, Heswall.
May 20
2 Black=throated Diver, 2 Manx Shearwater, 8 Arctic Tern, 3 Razorbill,
10 Guillemot and 210 Common Scoter -
Hilbre.
c20 Swift over RAF woods off Saughall Massied Road -
West Kirby.
May 18
1 Cuckoo flew east over Stanley Road -
Hoylake.
May 16
1 Scaup (drake) still -
West Kirby
Marine Lake.
c250 Dunlin (including some
alpina),
200 Ringed Plover and 30 Sanderling at high tide -
Hoylake.
c30 Swift low over Park Lane -
Meols.
May 15
3 Spoonbill, 2 flew north -
Parkgate.
230 Black=tailed Godwit and 12 Mandarin (all drakes) -
Caldy Wildfowl Collection.
May 14
12 Common Scoter, c450 Bar-tailed Godwit, c200 Knot (Bar-tailed Godwits
and Knots flew off heading north), c50 Sanderling, 5 Gannet and two
families of newly fledged Stonechats -
Point
of Ayr.
1 Osprey over high and heading north at 0830 -
Dove Point, Meols.
100 Shelduck, 500 Oystercatcher, 130 Ringed Plover, 90 Grey Plover, 400
Dunlin, 27 Whimbrel, 125 Curlew at high tide -
Heswall Shore.
1 Cuckoo -
Caldy Woods.
1 Quail heard bottom of Marshlands Road, also 1 Barn Owl -
Neston.
May 13
23 Avocet and 1 Great White Egret -
Parkgate.
May 12
300+ Ringed Plover, 400 Bar-tailed Godwit, c220 Sanderling, 400+
Dunlin, 30 Sandwich Tern, 6 Manx Shearwater and 8 Gannet this morning -
Point of Ayr.
3 Barn Owl and 2 Great White Egret this evening -
Neston Marsh.
May 10
310 Dunlin, 300 Sanderling (over North), 210 Ringed Plover, 8 Shelduck,
3 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew and 23 Little Egret -
Hilbre.
2 Spoonbill and 8 Great White Egret -
Parkgate.
May 9
1 Cuckoo showing well in horse paddocks also 2+ Wheatear and 1
Grasshopper Warbler -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
2 Spoonbill -
Parkgate.
1 Yellow-legged Gull -
Hilbre.
1,500 Knot-
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Red Kite heading north over Gayton Lane at 1715hrs -
Heswall.
May 8
2 Garganey (drake) on main scrape -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
1 Whinchat by sheep pens, 2 Hobby by Nets Cafe -
Burton Marsh.
1 Osprey flew north late morning, 1 Arctic Skua mobbing Sandwich Terns
this evening -
Hilbre.
May 7
1 Bee-eater over Pinflod Lane
and naked eye view over Morrisons car park (heading south) at 1915hrs,
not relocated -
West Kirby.
40+ Whimbrel on ebbing tide, very vocal -
Caldy Shore.
3 Garganey and 1 Spoonbill -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
May 6
2 Garganey (drakes), 6 Spotted Redshank and 1 Little Ringed Plover -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
234 Whimbrel, 85 Curlew, 1
Greenshank, 20 Redshank on rising tide this afternoon -
Heswall Shore.
2 Grasshopper Warbler and 1 Whinchat -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
May 5
2 Whinchat -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
1 Osprey over this evening -
Burton Mere
Wetlands.
May 4
3 Spoonbill,10 Spotted Redshank and 6 Ruff (males in s/pl), also
several hundred Knot (mainly 2cy) -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
1 Spoonbill (imm), 20 Avocet and 3 Greenshank, still 17 Pink-footed
Geese -
Parkgate.
1 Whinchat -
Leasowe Lighthouse.
May 3
2 Wood Sandpiper -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
32 Swallow, 160 Sandwich Tern and 2 Eider -
Hilbre.
800 Bar-tailed Godwit (exceptional number for that site), 350 Dunlin,
670 Sanderling, 200 Ringed Plover, 18 Little Tern, 70 Sandwich Tern, 20
Swallow and 3 Wheatear -
Point of
Ayr/Talacre Beach.
450 Black-tailed Godwit -
Caldy
Wildfowl Collection.
May 2
6 Little Tern, 450 Black=tailed Godwit, 8 Whimbrel, 3 Eider, 5 Willow
Warbler, 2 Chiffaff and 1 Whitethroat -
Hilbre.
9 Spotted Redshank and 3 Spoonbill -
Burton
Mere Wetlands.
48 Little Tern, 90 Sandwich Tern and 1,500 Oystercatcher -
Point of Ayr/Talacre Beach.
May 1
107 Whimbrel -
Heswall Shore.
4 Yellow Wagtail and 1 Whinchat -
Leasowe
Lighthouse.
3
Spoonbill, 3 Common Tern, 8 Spotted Redshank, 5 Greenshank, 3
Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Little Ringed Plover and 1 Willow Tit -
Burton Mere Wetlands.
1 Red Kite headed east over Liverpool Bay, seen from
Hilbre.