Weather : SW-3, warm and sunny

Migrants were on the move at the Lighthouse today. An early morning circuit of the coastal paddocks produced three Wheatear and a Spotted Flycatcher. By late afternoon the Spotted Flycatcher had moved on however Wheatears had increased to five. Several Warblers had arrived in the coastal hedges including 2 Chiffchaffs a single Willow Warbler and a single Whitethroat.

A good count of 24 Little Egret fed in the shallows just beyond the Lighthouse car park along with several young Grey Heron.

Other waders on the move today at the Lighthouse included 400 Dunlin, 33 Ringed Plover, 4 Whimbrel, 3 Black tailed Godwit and a single Knot.

Willow Warbler (Tim Kinch)

Wheatear (Tim Kinch)

 

Weather: Warm , mainly cloudy , wind south west 5mph,

A mid morning circuit of the Lighthouse provided  regulars with some great birds, bird of the day was an adult Hobby that had the pick of over 200 Swallows on Park lane fortunately for the Swallows the Hobby left empty handed after chashing a Swallow and narrowly missed out on a kill hopefully with the abundance of hirundine the hobby will stick around before its journey south, 

The other highlight on Park Lane was a Grey Wagtail . 

Over the past few days a Juvenile Black Tern has been seen off hoylake and Hilbre, Today it was joined by an adult off Meols , (As of this evening 5 Black Tern  were in the tern roost at Hilbre Island ) 
Other Terns seen off  Meols were 150 Common Tern and 40 Little Tern,

2 Mediterranean Gulls One adult on the sand near dove point and a second year bird flew over one of the observers.

Waders in the area , 1 Greenshank  in the usual haunt of the western groyne, 5 Turnstone feeding at the bottom of the embankment the adults in the group were still in fine summer plumage, and 1400 Oystercatchers off the lighthouse before high tide, 

Passerines in the area , 8 Chiffchaff  2 Blackcap and a Common Whitethroat, 

Tuesdays Yellow Wagtail. David Haigh

Weather , mainly cloudy sunny intervals showers later , wind SW force 2.

With summer slowly fading into autumn a trickle of migrants are passing through at the Lighthouse on their way back to the winter haunts , the predicted strong winds from the Atlantic hurricane failed to materialise With Saturday being the better of the two days for a sea watch

                                                                                             Wheatear by Tim Kinch

Weather, Heavy rain, wind SSE 15mph,

Thanks to the intrepid Lighthouse regular that braved the atrocious weather conditions at high tide at Hoylake today , 

80 Grey Plover, 11 Turnstone , 1000+ Dunlin as well as Sanderling and 2 Manx Shearwater that were quite far out 

Observer : Tim Kinch 

26/07/2017, Weather, frequent heavy showers 

After a quiet few weeks at the Lighthouse a return of waders and sea birds have made sea watching a must, Dunlin numbers are starting to build and there is a few individuals that cause  you to have more than a second look with some being very rufous and others quite pale Curlew sandpipers not being too far away and the possibility of white rumped sandpiper and rare peeps make Dunlin flocks  very interesting.

Mediterranean Gull  GC 

Other waders included Curlew, Oystercatcher and Redshank  in there hundreds, Sanderling running the edge of the tide line at Hoylake , 10 Whimbrel flew over the western groyne earlier in the week , 2 Bar Tailed Godwit 1 at Hoylake was a very pale bird and 2 Common Sandpiper on the western groyne, 

Dunlin. GC

Weather, rain am dry and cloudy pm. wind west north west 10mph,

June has been quite a quiet month at the Lighthouse with most of the excitement centered on other parts of the country with Needle tailed Swift's and Elegant Terns being the pick of the bunch , 
Seasoned Lighthouse regulars have kept their eyes to the skies and tree tops with few rewards 

Today was the exception despite the poor weather this morning a stunning adult Mediterranean Gull was spotted just off the seafront near the lifeboat station at Hoylake this was the same bird spotted at Hilbre Island at lunchtime 

Young Swallows  GC

Weather.  Hot sunny.  Wind 0 mph 

A typical sunny June morning at the lighthouse with migration largely over attention is focused on the breeding season .

Chiffchaff GC

When the first Lesser Whitethroats arrived On the 29th of April on Lingham Lane  lighthouse regulars speculated whether or not they would breed, For the past month the Lesser Whitethroat have been quiet and apart from brief sightings and could easily be overlooked if not aware of their presence,
This morning an observer watched for over 20 minutes a pair come and go from a hedgerow with food , hopefully in the next week or so we will be rewarded with views of some fledglings

Reed Warbler. GC