The weather forecast was for showers in the morning which were to ease by lunch and sunny spells in the afternoon. Well no one had told the weather that and it just rained most of the day.
Around West Kirby marine lake we picked up Turnstone, Redshank and Dunlin coming into roost.
Heading further along the coast the tide was still quite far out so not much was on offer around Hoylake so we continued down the coast to Meols here we did much better with Knot,Turnstone, Redshank and Oystercatcher all feeding in the pools and streams across the estuary. Also around the area were a couple of Little Egret and Shelducks.
From here we ventured down to New Brighton stopping off at the Life Guard Station firstly here there were a few Redshank and Turnstone feeding around the break water and Oystercatchers just further around the beach. While the grassy area new the hauled out boats held Common Gull, Black Headed Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull plus a few Lapwing.
Down at the marine lake a couple of Cormorant were feeding and the pontoons held Purple Sandpiper (one of my favourite wader species), Turnstone, Redshank and the odd Dunlin thrown in for good measure. By now the rain was coming down quite hard so we threw the towel in and headed back to Burton Mere to warm up and dry out in the reception hide where we added Snipe to our growing wader list. Plus the bonus of Water Pipit from the Marsh Covert Hide.
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