I suspect the redstart moved shortly after the last sighting. When I got there at about 1.30pm there was a council guy cutting the grass immediately adjacent to where the bird was. It was a right racket, and considering the grass was about 2m square it seemed to take ages to cut, a good 20 minutes.  As far as I know the bird wasn't seen after that.

Male Redstart still present and singing in trees by line of benches nr Horrocks Hide to 13:00 at least

AM/PM

Dunlin-4

Redshank-4

Hobby - 1 flying west chasing Sand Martins

Swift-c100

House Martin-10+

Cetti's Warbler-3 Male

Kingfisher-2

plus the usual's

2 Black tern still present c.4.30pm and showing well between horrocks and east bay, other birds seen this afternoon 2 Arctic tern 1 dunlin 1 Little ringed plover 2 Ringed plover (by sailing club) 3+Swift 1 Greylag Goose flew into Ramsdales c.4pm Grasshopper warbler singing at Western end At least 3 Common sandpiper

Both Black Terns still present at midday, also;

2 Common Tern

2 Arctic Tern (one of which flew straight through)

1 Dunlin

7 Buzzard

Steady passage of mainly adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls east

Dozen of so Swift

Sorry its a day late but here are a few shots of the Male Garganey at Pennington yesterday (28-4-2017). A first for me and well chuffed. It was good to see everyone there as well!

-- Edited by Carl Fletcher-Poole on Saturday 29th of April 2017 05:57:20 PM

Nice to be greeted this morning with 6 common sandpipers feeding together along the car park shoreline. Never seen these birds grouped like that before.

4 Common Whitethroat
Numerous Blackcap seen or heard

1 Grasshopper Warbler seen in scrub between East Bay and the eastern end.

1 Grey Wagtail at the far West end on the shoreline
1 Kingfisher similar area
3 Cetti's Warblers heard only.

No sign of the Garganey for me but I only dropped in very briefly to Ramsdale's Hide in order to escape the busy-ness of the Park Run.

drake Garganey still present from Ramsdale's Hide 17:30, 2 drake Wigeon on Flash, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Common Tern

Drake Garganey from Ramsdales Hide this morning.

Info thanks to Bill Harrison

 

This morning:

4 Common Tern

4 Common Sandpiper

3 Swift

1 Wheatear on Ramsdale Ruck

1 Shelduck

1 Redshank 

Info thanks to Bill Harrison

This am, 4 Common Tern, 6 + Common Sandpiper, 4 Cettis Warbler, single Whitethroat and Sedge Warbler at west end, a Little Egret flew from the western end and carried on over the car park c. 7.40 and a male Yellow Wagtail in the sheep fields along Byrom lane.

Black-necked Grebe present just off the spit this morning.

Info thanks to Bill Harrison and Shaun Murphy

2 kingfishers and. Grasshopper Warbler only birds of real note in a very quick visit.

No sign of the Pied Flycatcher mid afternoon ( no big surprise with the number of people about). A slow amble around the flash produced 6 Common Sandpiper (5 right in front of Horrocks), Reed warbler in Ramsdales reedbed, 3 Cetti's warbler and a site first for me, cream crown Marsh Harrier seen thermalling with 3 Buzzard from Slag lane in direction of Lightshaw Flash c. 2.25pm for 5 minutes before drifting high out of view. 

Pied flycatcher male from edmonson til 10.30 ive not seen it but seen pictures

Finder and Info from Steve Jones

Only other things of note today was

3 Common Sandpiper

2 Grasshopper Warbler

:)

 

-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Monday 17th of April 2017 04:46:08 PM

Common tern left west after 5 mins

Paul A Brown wrote:

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This morning, 2 Curlew SE (0645), Knot W (0740), singles of Sedge and Reed Warbler.

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Also this morning I saw /Heard

 4 Common Sandpiper  

4 Redshank

2 Cetti's Warbler

2 Sedge Warbler - 1 west end ,1 near pond on the west side of Rammies

1 Reed Warbler

2 Oystercatcher

AM/PM of note

Black Tailed Godwit- 3

Common Snipe-2

Common Sandpiper-5

Kingfisher-2

House Martin-3

Swallow- 30+

Sand Martin -1000+

 

 

This morning:

 

3 Little Egret

1 Black-tailed Godwit

1 Common Sandpiper

5 Redshank

4 Oystercatcher

 

Info thanks to Barry Hulme

4 cettis warbler still very vocal, 2 Little ringed plover flew west over rucks c.8.25am, good numbers of Willow warbler and Blackcap singing, an especially good congregation of both and Chiffchaff in trees alongside flash on the rucks. Single common sandpiper still near sailing club.

In addition to Andy's records, I was at the flash today from 7am - 11am with a detour to Lightshaw from about 8:30am - 9:45am.

Hundreds of hirundines low over the water first thing, I estimate at least 1000, of which 99% were sand martins. A single house martin was seen (not by me) and several swallows. I had 2 common sandpipers and a dunlin on the shore at the yacht club.

Of particular interest, I had 3 egrets appear to fly out of Ramsdales and then away over the Ruck when I arrived at 7am. Unfortunately I was just about as far away as I could get in the south-east corner and only had binoculars with me. My immediate impression was cattle egrets just from the way they were flying, but there has been up to 3 little egrets at the flash and Lightshaw recently so chances are they were them. I managed a few photos, but they don't really help at that distance, except perhaps to say that I can't see any yellow feet on them.

I continued on to Lightshaw and did a full circuit of the flash but found no further sign of any egrets.

-- Edited by colin davies on Monday 10th of April 2017 01:28:18 PM

At least 500 sand martins and a few swallows low over the water at dusk today. Also two Cetti's warblers singing, one at Sorrowcow pond, the other at the western end.

-- Edited by colin davies on Sunday 9th of April 2017 08:59:01 PM

late afternoon/evening visit.
the same as john but did have 3 shelduck on spit, 2 from teal hide, 2 from ramsdale hide.
heard 2 cettis warbler, 1 shown well from tom Edmondson hide.
4 oystercatcher
7 blackcap
7 willow warbler
9 chiffchaff
1 treecreeper
2 jay
1 skylark
this evening there were masses of hirundines over the flash, they seemed to stay high up the odd group coming down low, then eventually they were all down low. I am useless at counting birds like this but I would put a bet on there being well over a thousand hirundines over the flash. they all seemed to be sand martins but I did eventually get 2 swallows together, then 3, then 8 together. an awesome sight

16 Black-tailed Godwits flew SE over the main water at 08:15 this morning.

Also present were 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover and 2 Shelduck.

Info thanks to Shaun Murphy