Going to this event tonight in Liverpool:
7:00 doors
7:45 Howard Jones
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Knowsley Safari Park
c15 Willow Warblers
1 Wheatear on posts in north-west corner of PR4
1 Wigeon Section 1 Pit
Knowsley Safari Park
10+ Willow Warblers
1 Wigeon Section 1 Pit
Knowsley Safari Park
2-3 Mealy Redpolls Ranch. Year list 143
Manley Mere
Several Swallows and Sand Martins
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Swallow Section 1 Pit. Year list 142
3 Gadwalls Section 1 Pit
3 Teals Section 1 Pit
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Roe Deer in birch scrub between the quarry and Trap Wood
6 Willow Warblers
27 Lesser Redpolls around the quarry
2 Grey Wagtails in the stream below the dam at Mizzy Lake
Knowsley Safari Park
3+ Willow Warblers Ranch
1 Wigeon Mizzy Lake
5 Black Kites new in captivity
Knowsley Safari Park
2 Sand Martins over PR3 around 08:30. Year list 141
3 Blackcaps
Knowsley Safari Park
2 Blackcaps both singing
2 Bramblings [pr] around the stream at the south end of the woodland walk. Year list 140
1 Comma, 1 Small Tortoiseshell
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Green Sandpiper roosting on one of the islands in Section 1 Pit
1 Blackcap singing briefly
1 Meadow Pipit in the quarry
Cilan Head, Lleyn Peninsula
2 Blackcaps non-singing male in the garden of the first house [Gwynle] along the road to Nant-y-big, Porth Ceiriad and another in the valley south of Muriau. Year list 138
1 Willow Warbler in roadside hawthorns near Gwynle. Year list 139
1 Wheatear near the Burial Chamber
6+ Stonechats
4+ Choughs Pen-y-mynydd
1 Speckled Wood at the seaward end of Muriau valley
Hoscar
1 Stonechat [m] on wires along Hoscar Moss Road between Ring o’Bells and Hoscar
Rhoscolyn, Anglesey
1 Hooded Crow with 4 Carrion Crows by the coastal path in the field south-east of the 63m trig point. Year list 137
5 Wheatears 2 around St Gwenfaen’s Well and 3 between Bwa Du and Porth-y-garan
4+ Chiffchaffs
7+ Stonechats
3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese in Borth Wen
1 Peregrine Falcon
Tyddyn-y-cob
8 Black-tailed Godwits Both races represented and one islandica was in full summer plumage
1 Greenshank
2 Little Egrets
Cors Erddreiniog
3 Stonechats perhaps benefitting from the current slash and burn system of habitat management
44 Fieldfares came in to roost
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Water Rail showing well in the stream behind the 4×4 cabin
11 Meadow Pipits a few grounded today: 4 in Section 1 and 7 at Mizzy Lake
5+ Chiffchaffs
6 Jays behind the quarry
1 Small Tortoiseshell
3 Peacock
Cilan Head, Lleyn Peninsula
2 Wheatears Year list 136
8 Chiffchaffs
8 Stonechats
3+ Choughs
3 Small Tortoiseshells
Afon Penrhos
1 Water Rail showing well on the riverbank between Llanbedrog and Pwllheli Golf Course
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Green Sandpiper on the 2 small spring-fed pools in Section 1
1 Willow Tit singing on Singleton’s Hill
2-3 Chiffchaffs
1 Yellowhammer over Ranch
Knowsley Safari Park
2+ Chiffchaffs around the quarry
1 Yellowhammer over Ranch
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Green Sandpiper still on Section 1 Pit
23 Goldeneye PR4
1 Chiffchaff Trap Wood
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Water Rail in the stream behind the 4×4 cabin
1 Woodcock Ranch
8 Shovelers PR4
1 Chiffchaff Trap Wood
7 Fieldfares Singleton’s Hill
St Helens
1 Raven over town centre at 11:40
Knowsley Safari Park
1 or 2 Chiffchaffs singing in Trap Wood
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Knot picking flies off the concrete kerbs on top of PR3/4 causeway
7 Black-tailed Godwits south over Ranch towards PR4 at 09:20. Heard calling at Section 1 Pit earlier but invisible in the fog
1 Green Sandpiper still on Section 1 Pit
Cilan Head, Lleyn Peninsula
1 Chiffchaff in the sallow clump along the footpath north of Bryn Celyn Isaf. Year list 135
4 Stonechats
1 Merlin [m] flew across the road between Sarn Bach and Cilan
24 Golden Plovers in fields at Pen-y-mynydd
1 Woodcock in the valley above Nant Farm
3+ Choughs
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Green Sandpiper Section 1 Pit
1 Stonechat [m] Ranch
1 Grey Wagtail Otter Pond
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Water Rail in the swampy area behind the 4×4 cabin. Year list 134
1 Woodcock behind the quarry
1 Curlew north
Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey
1 Eider [f] with 6 Mergansers off the east side of the island. Year list 131
7 Stonechats
Abermenai Point
2 Eiders [pr]
65 Pale-bellied Brent Geese Traeth Abermenai. Year list 132
1 Knot Year list 133
30 Turnstones
2 Stonechats
Cors Erddreiniog
1 Green Sandpiper still on the river near the sluice-gate despite the much higher [too high if the relevant authorities are reading this] water levels
23 Greylag Geese
1 Brown Hare
Ynys Llanddwyn
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Ring-billed Gull adult bathing briefly on PR4 before 09:00. Year list 130
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Willow Tit Ranch, singing
1 Yellow-legged Gull adult on PR4. Year list 129
5 Great Black-backed Gulls PR4
1 Woodcock behind the quarry
6 Common Buzzards over Picnic Area
Going to this event tonight at Sheffield Corporation:
http://www.youtube.com/KillingJokeOfficial
http://www.corporation.org.uk/gig/1116/Killing+Joke
Knowsley Safari Park
1 Green Sandpiper with a Snipe on Section 1 Pit
1 Dunlin over PR4
Knowsley Safari Park
2 Avocets bobbing about with the gulls out in the middle of PR4 until 09:35 when a Lesser Black-back put them up and they flew off north-west. Year list 127
1 Mediterranean Gull adult-summer on posts 53/54 in north-west corner of PR4. Year list 128
1 Woodcock in birch scrub between the quarry and Trap Wood
4 Teals Section 1 Pit