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Eccleston Mere

The oystercatcher was the first bird I saw as I walked through the gates of the Mere this morning, feeding on the grass where the little ringed plover was in the summer. All the lesser redpoll I've seen recently at the Mere have been in the hedge separating the first two fields on the west side. There were four together and then I saw seven birds fly away, probably all lesser redpoll. A chiffchaff was singing away somewhere in the southwest corner , and I later saw a chiffchaff in the dead wood - my first (non-Siberian!) chiffchaff of the year.

Chiffchaff 1+ singing
Oysercatcher 1
Lesser redpoll 4-7
Teal 2
Goldcrest 3+ singing along the hedge and on the fallen tree along the stream
GS woodpecker 2 (m+f)
Treecreeper 1 calling
Coal tit 2
Gadwall 1m
Kingfisher 1
Bullfinch (heard only)
Lots of reed bunting
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