A great day at Marshside, Southport yesterday, 3 spoonbills over Sandgrounders hide, 1st win drake smew on saltmarsh, water pipit plus lots of geese inc. 15+ Russian white-fronts, 2 Greenland white-fronts, 55+ barnacles & 2 sand martins, ringtail hen harrier & the usuals #LancsBirding #UKBirding
Pennington Flash, 7 sand martins, 15 wigeon, 2 common scoter, 2 redshank, no sign of scaup so far. #PFbirding #UKBirding
Greater scaup
Pennington Flash today, drake greater scaup off the car park, 8 sand martins, 2 chiffchaffs inc. singing male, 2 redshank #PFBirding #UKBirding
Great northern diver.
Drake red-breasted merganser.
Slavonian grebe.
Golden plover.
A great day on Anglesey, at Beddmanarch Bay 2 Slavonian grebes, 2 great northern divers, then onto Inland Sea where there were 2 Slav grebes, great northern diver, long-tailed duck & drake scaup & finally at Cors Ddyga booming bittern & sand martin #birdingwales #UKBirding @birdguides.bsky.social
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Wheatear on Great Orme here maps.app.goo.gl/W16aVkUQZ1zy...
Looked very pale but dropped down to seaward side of road. Not relocated yet #BirdingWales ##UKBIRDING
Pale-bellied brent geese.
Beddmanarch Bay today, at least 1 slavonian grebe, 1 great northern diver, 4 cattle egrets flew over and an adult Med gull in full summer plumage #BirdingWales #UKBirding @birdguides.bsky.social
I agree, but personally I'm happy to miss out if it means I'm not subject to the toxicity of X. My X account is long deleted. So far so good with bluesky for me, all I see is stuff I'm interested in.
Very distant barnacle geese on Crossens marsh, Southport.
Nice one 👍 I called in at Crossens early pm yesterday hoping to see the Todd's but no joy. I did however count 75+ barnacles. Amazing numbers about this year, great to see.
Single Russian white-front still with greylags this morning, Lightshaw flash #LancsBirding #UKBirding
Female lesser scaup at Woolston Eyes No. 3 bed this afternoon #UKBirding #CheshireBirding #RarebirdsUK
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Or Lancashire if you prefer 😆
Lightshaw Flash, Greater Manchester
Great white egret with red ring at Lightshaw Flash this morn. Appears to have white writing but as far as I know not been read yet. Been around for ages between Lightshaw, Bickershaw & Pennington Flash. Suspect from Avalon marshes. Red with white not best combination for me 🤦 #UKBirding #birdringing
A brief view of the underwing.
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A remarkable looking marsh harrier at Martin Mere today #WWTMM. It's been around for a week or two. Presumably partial leucism or perhaps a very old female? Poor flight photos in the comments #LancsBirding #BirdingUK
Lesser yellowlegs at Rhyl this morning #BirdingWales #BirdingUK #RarebirdsUK
Morfa madryn, drake green-winged teal still on saltmarsh ##birdingwales #birdingUk ##RarebirdsUK @birdguides.bsky.social
Lesser yellowlegs
Rhyl, lesser yellowlegs showing well in bright sunlight on west bank of River Clwyd #BirdingWales #BirdingUK #RarebirdsUK @birdguides.bsky.social
Depends on whether you recognise GM. It's in wigan so officially GM, but some still call it Lancs
30 Russian white-fronted geese still Lightshaw Flash, Greater Manchester this morning #BirdingUK
or what's left of the screen......
I may see you there. The easiest way to see them is probably park at Slag lane car park & walk west along the canal & view either side of bridge no. 5. However viewing from here is quite distant & through trees. You'll get closer views by parking in Byrom Lane & walking past the hall to the screen.
Latest count is 30 Russian white-fronted geese.
Russian white-fronted geese with a few Canada geese.
Russian white-fronted geese with a few Canada geese.
27 Russian white-fronted geese with 4 greylags at the back.
I just had a feeling that Lightshaw Flash would be the best bet for Russian white-fronts in my area of Greater Manchester so decided to have a walk there from home this afternoon and found a nice flock of 27 birds #BirdingUK #Geese
Another day in North Lancs taking in the Russian white-front influx produced minimum counts of 300 on Pilling Moss at Bradshaw lane this morning, 67 SW of Skronkey, 61 north of Cockersands Abbey viewed from Crook farm and 2 off Black Lane south of Stake Pool #LancsBirding @birdguides.bsky.social
Pink-footed geese with at least 27 Russian white-fronts.
At least 38 Russian white-fronts.
Pink-footed geese, Russian white-fronts and Barnacle geese.
Pink-footed and barnacle geese
Impressive scenes at Cockersands Abbey, at least 68 Russian white-fronts, 60 barnacles & 1000s pink-feet. 30 RWFG were in the main pink-feet flock, with 38 just east of Crook farm. All but 3 are in the photos. I only had bins so prob missed juv RWFG #LancsBirding #BirdingUK @birdguides.bsky.social
