Occasionally Birding St Helens 2008-2014

Bats: Lesser horseshoe Common pipistrelle  Moths: Blomers rivulet Four spot footman Rosy footman Black arches a few Buff footman lots For th...

Little Grebe, Hillsborough Lake. I was made up with this because it completes the set of decent summer plumage grebe photos this year. I...

Manx shearwater 2 Eider 500 Black guillemot 4 Red breasted merganser 1 female Curlew 50 Black tailed godwit 50 Common tern 50 Common sandpip...

Common tern 150 at colony Black tailed godwit 400 Common sandpiper 9 Curlew 50 Greenshank 1 Redshank 50 Dunlin 3 I saw several terns feeding...

Ring necked duck 2 (male and female) Whooper swan 2 Common sandpiper 1 Pochard 4 Tufted duck 50 Great crested grebe 30 Little grebe 30 inc p...

Tufted duck 20 Coot 91 Kingfisher 1 Mute swan 2 adults with 6 cygnets Sand martin 10 Swift 20 House martin 20 Swallow 20 Chiffchaff 1 singin...

Shoveler 5 females Kingfisher 1 Coot 50+ with at least 8 family parties Mute swan 2 adults Great crested grebe 20 with at least 4 family par...