Sunday 9 January 2011

Black-tailed Godwit return and the usual stuff

Heysham Obs
This received today (thanks Richard)
Black-tailed Godwit - colour-ringed/flagged bird
Ringed 16.07.08 Knappsstadir, Fljot, SW of Siglufjordur, N Iceland
Seen subsequently:
20.08.08 Thurstaston Shore, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
28.08.08-8/10/08 Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby, Merseyside
19-21.01.09 Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby, Merseyside
also on 21.01.09 Thurstaston Shore, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
06.02.09-24.02.09 Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby, Merseyside
27.02.09 Thurstaston Shore, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
01.03.09 Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby, Merseyside
07.03.09 Thurstaston Shore, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
11-12.03.09 Gilroy Nature Park, West Kirby, Merseyside
29.04.09 Inner Marsh Farm, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
07.05.09 Inner Marsh Farm, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
22.05.09 Inner Marsh Farm, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
13.11.09-14.01.10 Thurstaston Shore, Dee Estuary, Cheshire
01.02.10 Heysham Ocean Edge foreshore, Lancashire
18.02.10 Cockersands, Lancashire

This species regularly commutes between the Dee and Morecambe Bay

North harbour wall
Twite - 26 (7 unringed)
Med Gull - one adult
No additional reports from any of the birders present