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OVER 10% OF ALL WILDFLOWERS NATIVE TO BRITAIN FOUND ON HOYLAKE BEACH!!!! After checking the data (twice), there are some 171 of the 1692 wild plants native to Britain now recorded on Hoylake beach, excluding non-native species and bryophytes. WOW.

Over 6,500 hectares of #RSPB-managed habitat makes our Dee Estuary reserve one of the largest protected #wetland sites in the country. Mind-boggling numbers of some globally-threatened #bird species make this area their winter home. #WildlifeConservationDay 📸Josh Robertson

A great few days at Meols (Wirral) reading Knot colour rings with @tonyormond (Merseyside Ringing Group) Since Friday we've read at least 70 flags from Norway, Iceland, Canada, the Wash, NE Scotland, Netherlands as well as Knot ringed locally at Hoylake, Ainsdale and Altcar.

Love this time of year when the waders are turning to S/pl. Blackwits look superb but knot, Grey Plover and dunlin not quite there yet. Orange flag Grey Plover ringed at Altcar in 2018. These were all at West Kirby this morning

#SuperSeabirdSunday Sandwich Terns in Gambia in Nov 2023, and at Meols (N Wirral) May 2024. One of my favourite birds.

Little Stint is a fairly regular wader in front of ours during the autumn passage but not so much a North bound migrant in full sum plum. Nice find Sean O'Hara 💥 plus good number of Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Sanderling and a smart sum plum Grey Plover!!

This knot flock walked all the way in front of the tide for two miles this morning off Meols, Wirral - just before high tide they all flew to Seaforth. Mostly 2CY birds but the adults are now starting to arrive back. My guesstimate was 6000.

Knot a lot to see at #RSPBSnettisham this morning! RSPB Titchwell Marsh RSPB

I was lucky to see the RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands Hudsonian Godwit before it flew out to the estuary, better views than the Somerset bird despite the rain. Great find by Colin Wells, hopefully it will reappear this evening 🤞

Please retweet if you are one of more than 2000 birdwatchers who have contributed colour-ring sightings to new paper on juvenile settlement in Black-tailed Godwits. Summary blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/juv… Link to paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

It’s a beautiful day for our #Parkgate High Tide event with Our Dee Estuary. The fair, calm #weather means the tide will not be hugely dramatic but still a great selection of #birds already seen by our friendly team including Spoonbill, Marsh Harrier and Hobby!

High Tide Wader Watch at Point of Ayr event is live! Our experienced guides will walk you across this area as the tide moves in, spotting waders, ducks & if your lucky, Peregrine or Merlin on the hunt. Booking essential via the website: tinyurl.com/POAhighT #ThursdayThoughts

For shorebird fans near the Dee Estuary. I am giving an an on-line talk called "Waders on the move". 12 November at 7pm. Tickets still available: ourdeeestuary.co.uk/events/waders-…

Autumn 2024 saw one of our largest influxes of Yellow browed Warbler onto the peninsula #Wirral. Great write up here by Richard Smith Richard Smith deeestuary.co.uk/news.htm . Some incredible numbers of one of our favourite Siberian Sprites. 👌

Ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit? This blog could not have been written without you: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/how… Summary of great paper by @SeabirdStudent besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ftr/10.111… And check out links to map godwit movements from your own site #ornithology

For me the first sign of spring isn't the first wheatear or sand martin, welcome though these are. It's the return of the frogs to my garden pond (West Kirby, Wirral), and spring like temperatures today have resulted in at least 60 in the pond and already a mass of frog spawn.

Wow!!! The patch is getting a little too busy for this 'old misery' so tried the western edge for a change & came across this cracker.. #BlueheadedWagtail. Barely annual in my part of world. #Wirral Chuffed 💥💥💥