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