Knowsley Safari Park

1 Little Ringed Plover on reservoir causeway

10 Shelducks family still on PR4

2 Broad-bodied Chasers 1 Ranch and 1 in the quarry

6 Blue-tailed Damselflies at the L-shaped pond at the quarry entrance

7 Orange Tip 6m 1f on bracken

3 Small White on cuckoo-flower, bluebell and sallow

4 Green-veined White

1 Small Copper in the quarry

1 Holly Blue Picnic Area on rhododendrons

2 Speckled Wood

8 Peacock

Beeston Castle, Cheshire

1 Garden Warbler non-singer in a holly tree. Year list 157

2-3 Ravens

1 Painted Lady at summit

1 Holly Blue

2 Comma

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Grasshopper Warbler in sallows at the top of the willow-coppice field between Ranch and Trap Wood. It’s over 3 weeks since I last heard one so presumably this is a recently arrived migrant

Knowsley Safari Park

12 Shelducks 2 on Section 1 Pit and pair with 8 shelducklings on PR4

Bangor’s Green

1 Cuckoo over the junction of Cut Lane and Narrow Lane at Narrow Lane Farm. Year list 156

Haskayne

1 Sedge Warbler singing in Ship Inn car park by Leeds-Liverpool Canal

Kelsall, Cheshire

1 Green Woodpecker flew into a tree on Willington Lane between Willington Corner and Willington Hall Hotel. Year list 154

Manley Mere

1 Lesser Whitethroat singing from roadside hedge on Manley Road opposite Manley House Farm near the entrance to Manley Mere

Knowsley Safari Park

3 Wheatears 2 Ranch and 1 Singleton’s Hill

6 Whitethroats

1 Grasshopper Warbler Ranch Pond

2 Little Ringed Plovers on reservoir causeway. Year list 151

1 Common Sandpiper PR4

2 Green-veined White

Knowsley Safari Park

Swifts over the reservoirs. Year list 150

1 Grasshopper Warbler Ranch Pond

1 Whitethroat [m] Ranch

1 Common Sandpiper on reservoir causeway

A report of an Osprey fishing White Man’s Dam last Saturday morning

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Redstart [m] flycatching all along the fence between Ranch and the reservoir. Year list 147

1 Wheatear dropped into the top of one of the mature trees at east end of Ranch during a heavy rain / hail shower at 09:00

2+ Grasshopper Warblers reeling at Ranch Pond