Weather: E force 3, some mist near midday.
A female Merlin was recorded and was the sole raptor today. There were some good records on the sea this morning, 9 Red-throated Divers, 13 Great Crested Grebes and 160 Common Scoter, also numbers of waders included 158 Grey Plover, 146 Curlew, 95 Turnstone, 75 Redshank, 20 Dunlin, a single Ringed Plover and of course the ubiquitous Oystercatcher, 7,200 today.
The 9 Purple Sandpipers today were, as always, one of our favourites.
As often the 131 pale-bellied Brent mixed with the small wdaers in between the islands.
A single dark-bellied Brent was also present today. Records of Pinkfooted Geese are now regular during late autumn, winter and early spring as they move backwards and forwards from Wirral and today was no exception with 4 seen flying west, but in addition a single bird was down on West Kirby saltmarsh and was then flushed by a dog and flew between Hilbre and Red Rocks. Records of Pinfeet Geese on the shore are relatively scarce .
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