Thanks to Chris Tynan for the heads up about the Twite at the Green Beach.
Got down there this afternoon on the off chance, but there was very little light left.
Couple of male Stonechats, Meadow Pipits, Skylarks and a single Snipe as I walked down the beach.
Managed to get sight of a small finch flock further up the Green Beach and got bin views of four Twitey looking critters as they were flushed by a dweeb whacking a golf ball along the sands with a seven iron.
The birds headed off north, but a few more stayed on the deck long enough to scope and they were...Linnets.
Guess you can't win 'em all!
By 4.15pm the sun was well behind the Welsh hills and two Water Rail were squealing away at the top end of the Sands Lake.
Two Fieldfare flew into the buckthorn to roost.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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We found the Twite early yesterday on the beach at Weld Road car park - car park!!!
They were in with a few Linnet about thirty birds in total and were quite flighty but settled down on the path in front of the dunes for a while when the tide came in.
Two and probably a third Jack Snipe at Taggs today, also 10 Common Snipe (north end only), it was too foggy to look for the Brent Geese.
I now have two feeding stations in the Birkdale LNR area, interesting to see if anything unusual appears at them. Plenty of common birds feeding on this autumn/winter's good Buckthorn berry crop.