Always nice to catch a “Common Redpoll” once in a while. Big, frosty, pale birds of a race found in NE Europe. Cheshire & Wirral Ornithological Society #SMRG

Lots of Siskins on the move, over 100+ at my winter feeding station this weekend. Birds moving up from the south. Always nice to catch. Cheshire & Wirral Ornithological Society BTO

Lots of Siskins moving at the moment, attracted to feeders with c150 trapped and ringed in Feb . Hope for some re-encounters from the Scottish ringers. I had one ringed as juv August 2021 at Peebles, on the Scottish Borders. On his way home now😎 Cheshire & Wirral Ornithological Society C & W BIRD NEWS

Very nice, been in very short supply in Cheshire this winter.

A morning spent refurbishing a few nest boxes at my Pied Flycatcher/Redstart sites in east Cheshire. Was rewarded by a male PF in song over one of the boxes. Very early arrival ⁦Cheshire & Wirral Ornithological Society⁩ #BTO nesting.neighbours

Just seen the local news that the rare flora on the Hoylake beach aspects might be cleared! No way

done my first check for Pied Flycatchers at a private woodland near Bosley, Only 5 boxes with laying birds plus a Redstart. Few empty boxes, others occupied by Blue Tits, usually only 5 pairs in 50 boxes, now 15! One box not a mossy tit box but grass and feathers. Ideas?

A before Redstart nest with a brood at FM, and the state of the nest after fledging. Basically trashed the place !! #NestingNeighbours

First breaths. Minutes hatched, still wet Common Tern chick. So small, so vulnerable, yet Hopefully the start of an epic journey of survival and migration. nesting-neighbours BTO.org

My Grandson about to test the theory that a Spaniels tongue is longer than its head. Nb no Rubys were hurt in this experiment! 😎🐶

Last one I saw was 10 years ago at Acre Nook. A difficult to catch up with for one’s Cheshire list. Must have missed you on site.

It won’t change its primaries/secondaries until it finishes breeding, if it survives the autumn/ winter next year. It will only moult underparts and some coverts this year. It won’t moult its tail either.

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Not a bird I expected to add to my Cheshire and Wirral list ! Great organisation as ever at BMW RSPB by Graham Jones and his team. Plus Lots of smiling familiar faces in the Border Hide! Gotta love those black axillaries 😎

Same here Phil, after a really good multiple nests and fledgling success, I am not just not seeing Blackbirds around my local patch. Yet berry bearing bushes and trees are looking loaded. ?

Actually a Cattle Egret.

Same in the NW. downgraded various reserve’s on financial grounds, closing additional facilities. Despite increased footfall. A clear financial move by the RSPB. Doubt they will come clean and explain all.

Finally managed to design a pole mounted suitable tray style live meal worm feeder out of Perspex window feeders with detachable trays and suitable BTO section-able poles. ⁦⁦Cheshire & Wirral Ornithological Society⁩ BTO