Bird News from St Helens
You can contact the Sankey Valley
Rangers on 01744 677 772 to report anything unusual, you can also email me
with any
bird news of interest to me Peter
-- birdwatchinginsthelens@blueyonder.co.uk
Please could you also forward all your
bird sightings to Colin Davies
at the St Helens Wildlife Recording Group, email -- coldavies2@hotmail.co.uk
who will co-ordinate and
summarise all the bird records from St
Helens and then forward them to the local county
recorder.
Click here for full list of Archives to previous months sighings.
click here for a list of Waxwing sightings for
2013
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June 2013
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| Mon 17th June |
- Eccleston Mere -- 2 Mute Swan, 2
Gadwall, 200 Swift, 1 Tawny Owl, 4 Lesser
Redpoll.
- Newton Lake, NLW -- 1 Little Grebe, Canada Geese pair with 4
young, 7 male Tufted Duck. |
| Sun 16th June |
- Eccleston Mere -- 2 Mute Swans, 1
male Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 300 Swifts.
- My Garden, off Wagon Lane, Haydock -- 1 Coal Tit at feeders. |
| Sat 15th June |
- Eccleston Mere -- 300+ Swifts, 50 House
Martin, |
| Thu 13th June |
- Eccleston Mere -- 3 Mute Swans, 1 male
Gadwall, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Common Buzzard, 100 Swift.
- My Garden, off Wagon Lane, Haydock -- 1 Coal Tit at
feeders. |
| Wed 12th June |
- My Garden, off Wagon Lane, Haydock -- 1
Coal Tit at feeders. |
| Tue 11th June |
- Nine Arches, NLW -- 2 Sand
Martin, 3 House Martin, 5+ Swallow, 20+ Swifts, 1 Great
Spotted Woodpecker,
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'' -- 2 Common
Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaff, family feeding of Long Tailed Tits and Great Tits.
- My Garden, off Wagon Lane, Haydock -- 1 ad 1 juv Song
Thrush, 1 Coal Tit at feeders. |
| Mon 10th June |
- Newton Lake, NLW -- 1 Little Grebe, 9
Canada Geese + another seperate pair with 4 young, 3 male Tufted Duck,
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'' -- 1 male Gadwall, 2 Grey Heron, 2
Buzzards, 4 Swifts, 1 Swallow thru, 1 Common Gull.
- Nine Arches, NLW (from car park) -- 2 Lapwings
flew over, 2 Buzzards, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Sand Martin, 3 Swallows,
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'' -- 3 Swifts, 1 Great
Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff heard, 1 Common Whitethroat.
- My Garden, off Wagon Lane, Haydock -- 1 Sparrowhawk on garden
fence. |
| Sun 9th June |
- Eccleston Mere -- 3 Mute Swans, 1 male Gadwall,
1 Oystercatcher, 1 Common Buzzard, 10 House Martin,
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-- 200 Swift, 10 Swallows, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail.
- Mountains Farm, Billinge -- 2 Yellow
Wagtail, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Tree Sparrow, lots of Linnets &
Yellowhammers.
- Red Barn Road, Billinge -- 1 Little
Owl, 1 Grey Partridge, 4 Tree Sparrow, 2 Reed Bunting. |
| Sat 8th June |
- Eccleston Mere -- 3 Mute Swans, 4 Tufted Duck, 4 male
Pochard, 1 Oystercatcher. |
| Fri 7th June |
- Coopers Lane, Sankey Valley, Haydock -- 1 Lapwing
over. |
| Thu 6th June |
- Newton Lake, NLW -- 7 Canada Geese + another seperate
pair with 4 young, 3 male Gadwall, 1 male Tufted Duck. |
| Wed 5th June |
- My Garden, off Wagon Lane, Haydock -- 1 Coal Tit at
feeders. |
| Mon 3rd June |
- Newton Lake, NLW -- 6 Canada Geese, 1 male Gadwall, 2
male Tufted Duck. |
| Sun 2nd June |
- Lea Green, Sutton -- 1 Common Buzzard over. |
| Sat 1st June |
- Billinge Hill -- few Swallows, Swifts about, Skylark
heard, 1 Common Whitethroat, 1 Yellowhammer, + loads of kids.
- My Garden, off Wagon Lane, Haydock -- 1 Coal Tit at feeders. |
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Thanks to the photographers who have given me their permission to use their photos,
copyright remains with them.
All other photos are copyright to me Peter -- birdwatchinginsthelens@blueyonder.co.uk
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