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[tigertom]

Originally Posted by Wendy Woo

Thanks for that. Im coming up for 3 days from 10th-13th Feb, but will mainly be relying on public transport. On 11th Im going to watch the high-tide at Hoylake, Ive heard its a good spot for Purple Sandpipers.

For Purple sands nip down to new brighton marine lake they sit on a pontoon there at high tide along with turnstones redshank dunlin very easy to see them easy on pubic transport as well on merseyrail one change takes no more than 30mins from hoylake
MIKE

[Shrike]

Originally Posted by Wendy Woo

Thanks for that. Im coming up for 3 days from 10th-13th Feb, but will mainly be relying on public transport. On 11th Im going to watch the high-tide at Hoylake, Ive heard its a good spot for Purple Sandpipers.

As Mike says New Brighton is a gimme for purple sandpipers at hightide roost on the pontoon , however you also get them on hilbre island which you can walk to from hoylake (ask local advice or read up on times to cross as island is cut off during high tide)you also get grey seals on hilbre and a great place for watching seabirds.
Cant say ive ever seen them myself or heard of them(p.sands)on the hoylake side of the shore , good place for many other waders though.
this link may be of interest to you Dee Estuary Birds - birdwatching, birding and twitching

[Wendy Woo]

Many thanks to both of you. Im incredibly impressed with this website, everyones so friendly and helpful. Thank you

[Deb London]

Originally Posted by Deb London

I haven't kept a list for each location before. But each year I intend to record the new species I see. I see them at different locations, so the best of my patches might well be better (if I saw a Siskin somewhere else first, and this happened every year, I'd never have a Siskin on my patch list, if that makes sense).

Being lazy and playing with a new tool, so I've not written it down:



This makes 51.

I will try recording everything I see here and see if I increase this. This was where I went on New Year's day and I still have not seen the total that the birders there saw on that day, starting at 6:30, which was 57.

This means I am a very poor birder.

I console myself that I will get better each year.
The maximum number "probably possibles" for this site is around 130. Wow! Eyes to the skies, aim for the stars!

PS Just realised there is a bug in the system. I have to add the new species manually. I make it 47! A few more to go then!

Matthew has now squished the bug in Birdax. So for those of you who use this, you can now click "locations" to see at a glance which one was the most productive for you (total species, no duplication). When you click on your preferred patch, you get the full list, by date, and at the top, a summary including your year total.

[Shrike]

Originally Posted by Deb London

Matthew has now squished the bug in Birdax. So for those of you who use this, you can now click "locations" to see at a glance which one was the most productive for you (total species, no duplication). When you click on your preferred patch, you get the full list, by date, and at the top, a summary including your year total.

hmm interesting i'll have a look at that cheers Deb