We have a more or less Resident Grey Wagtail around the garden pond at the moment I have been feeding it meal worms for a few weeks . Also Chaffinch, 4 Coat Tit, 4 Great Tit, 8 Blue Tit, 3 Dunnock, a Robin and a pair of Blackbird in the garden today in Central Warrington .
Just had a new bird for the garden a Male by size Merlin flew south fast over our house and headed towards Bank Park Warrington, probably heading for the Mersey near Moore ,another amazing bird for central Warrington,
All evening attacks, but I wouldn't risk a daytime visit with optics !
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https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/17390105.gang-armed-with-meat-cleaver-strike-five-times-in-orford-over-weekend
-- Edited by John Watson on Saturday 2nd of February 2019 10:04:54 AM
Just to make everyone aware -There have been 5 Muggings in the last week by 3 men with Meat Cleavers in the daytime at Battersby lane were the Waxwings are ,2 of them at back forshaw street were the photographers stand,they have been taking phones,wallets and anything anyone is carrying,so £2000 binoculars and £5000 lenses and cameras will be targeted . I would not venture to that area at the moment with equipment.please pass this information onto your birding friends .
Appeared on the grass infront of the College on Winwick Rd briefly before flying off. I then had it showing beautifully on the small football pitch behind Decathlon. It was minding its own business when suddenly 2 huge Herring Gulls flew in and started attacking it. They were mean looking with strong heavy bills. One of them really went for it, and had white feathers still on the end of its bill after the Iceland Gull flew off. I refound it again back at the college where it stayed for about 5 minutes looking really nervous, before flying off towards MacDonalds and Tesco. I didnt see it again.
- 3 Waxwings showing nicely on Battersby Lane, Orford. - adult Iceland Gull seen 4 times in flight between Decathlon and MacDonalds. I managed to relocate it again on a lamppost behind MacDonalds near The Range but it flew off back towards Winwick Road
Nice to see Rob Smallwood again.
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Two waxwings using the tall trees opposite the chip & Co chip shop, on the junction of General Street and School Brow in warrington town centre this morning from 8:15am and still there currently. Chip shop postcode is wa1 2ta
Two great long distance migrants in Warrington today 2 Waxwing at Church street and I found the Adult Iceland Gull by Decathlon this morning that has returned as an adult to the area now for 6 Winters and it was great to see it back again ,I estimate this gull assuming its going back to Greenland to breed has done 24000 miles traveling back and too to Warrington from its Breeding area in the time I have been watching it ,I had it 2nd January 2013 the first time and saw it briefly on and off each winter up to last winter when it was ever present from Jan-May,so great to see her back :)
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 13th of January 2019 03:15:47 PM
5 Waxwings were reported around Sainsbury's car park yesterday, and then later at Battersby Lane. Today 2 were present along Orchard Street, either at the junction with Church Street and then at the junction with School Brow
Huge flock of Redwings, fieldfare, mistle thrush, chaffinch, goldfinch using the st barnabus school field and nearby trees on collins st in warrington. Its quite a spectacle of urban birding. No waxwings tho!
quick scoot over to Milner street VW this morning in the hope of Waxwings was fruitless but in the vicinity were 200 Redwing and 100 Fieldfare feeding on the Berries around the site,and that normally bodes well for a few Waxwings to arrive,but they will have to hurry up as there are very few Berries left with many of the trees already stripped bare .
- adult Iceland Gull Finally located it on Tile Giant roof after we tried all the various locations it's been seen at previously. It didn't stay long though as it was flushed and driven off by a Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Not exactly Warrington town centre but a Kestrel hovering over field adjacent to Winwick Lane as you approach roundabout for M6 at around 10am this morning - dry but breezy, 10 degrees centigrade. Buzzard over field south of M62 and a few hundred metres east of IKEA.
The Adult Iceland gull I found early in the winter was still present today ,seen several times between the new Aldi and Matalan via the College area along Winwick road last seen at 3.30 pm on Matalan's roof :)