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

Going to this event tonight at The Kazimier, Liverpool:

http://www.saintetienne.com/video

Knowsley Safari Park

16 Shelducks 6 on Singleton’s Hill and the family of 10 still on PR4

2 Great Black-backed Gulls on reservoir causeway

1 Orange Tip [f]

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Large Red Damselfly Ranch Pond

10 Shelducks pair with 8 shelducklings still on PR4

Gillar’s Green

1 Holly Blue Brookhouse Grove

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

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Wheatear Singleton’s Hill

8 Shelducks Ranch, 8 shelducklings hiding under brambles

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Sedge Warbler Ranch, singing and catching craneflies. Haven’t seen or heard it for a week but presumably is the same bird first seen in exactly the same place on the 9th

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Wheatear a very tame male Greenland Wheatear on the north side of PR4

2 Little Ringed Plovers on reservoir causeway

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Reed Warbler singing and showing well in the birch / sallow clump at the top of the willow-coppice field between Ranch and Trap Wood. Year list 155

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

1-2 Sedge Warblers Ranch

1 Little Ringed Plover on reservoir causeway

Knowsley Safari Park

2 Sedge Warblers 1 Ranch, singing and 1 singing from rhododendrons at Mizzy Lake. Year list 153

1 Wheatear on picnic tables next to the 4×4 cabin

1 Common Sandpiper Mizzy Lake

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Whimbrel still in Section 1

1 Yellow Wagtail heard calling over PR4

Knowsley Safari Park

10 Crossbills south-east over Mizzy Lake at 10:00

1 Whimbrel still in the 1st section of the safari-drive

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Whimbrel still on Section 1 Pit reported by David and Lisa

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Whinchat on the fence at west end of Mizzy Lake. Year list 152

1 Wheatear Section 1 Pit

1 Whimbrel Section 1 Pit

2 Little Ringed Plovers on reservoir causeway

Barton Moss

7 Whimbrels near the junction of Heathy Lane and Plex Moss Lane at SD333097

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

4 Wheatears 1 at Section 1 Pit and 3 nearby on Singleton’s Hill

1 Grasshopper Warbler Ranch Pond

1 Whitethroat Ranch

Knowsley Safari Park

2 Wheatears on the car park

2+ Whitethroats Ranch

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 Greenshank on Section 1 Pit

1 Whitethroat singing briefly in the quarry. Year list 149

1 Grasshopper Warbler Ranch Pond

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Grasshopper Warbler on one of the wooden posts at Ranch Pond. Year list 148

1 Curlew over

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

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling briefly at Ranch Pond

2 Common Sandpipers one at Mizzy Lake and one on reservoir causeway. Year list 146

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Tree Pipit Woodland Walk, feeding on the ground just past the first pond and subsinging from the lowest branch of an oak tree. Year list 145

Manley Mere

1+ House Martin Year list 144

Knowsley Safari Park

1 Wheatear on the car park. Not exactly cosmic but everywhere looked soo beautiful in the sunshine that it didn’t seem to matter

Knowsley Safari Park

20+ Willow Warblers

Liverpool

1+ Lesser Black-backed Gull patrolling Lime Street looking for scraps at 22:30

Going to this event tonight in Liverpool:

7:00 doors

7:45 Howard Jones

http://www.howardjones.com/videos.html