Hilbre Bird Observatory

With a brief visit over low water it was inevitable that there would be little about, no Purple Sandpipers were to be found at the No...

Weather: NNW force 2 Brent were counted at 206 this morning, while 3 Purple Sandpipers showed themselves. Most interesting of the other wad...

Weather: NW force 2/3,  poor light, drizzle The single Eider was logged today, also a Rock Pipit, 2 Meadow Pipits, 5 Wrens, 4 Song Thrushes...

Weather: force 3 A number of good wader counrts this morning of 136 Curlew, 139 Grey Plover, 77 Turnstone, 126 Redshank and 4 Purple Sandpi...

Some good wader counts from today were: 10,000 Dunlin, 5,000 Oystercatcher, 2,000 Knot, 70 Curlew, 50 Ringed Plover, 40 Redshank. 35 G...

With the high tide just after 11 am it was a leisurely start to the morning even though it was only just getting light during these d...