Ingleholme farm, Dairy farm road, and Windle farm.

Mark and myself took a quick trip to the rugby club near Windle on the A580 to see if any Corn Buntings were about, and sure enough we managed to see a group of 4 near to the first house after the rugby club.

Corn Bunting.

Corn Bunting.

There was plenty of Reed buntings, Yellowhammers, Skylarks and the usual Chaffinch, Tits etc.

On the way back to the car a Sparrow hawk flew over.

Sparrow hawk.

We headed to Ingleholme farm on the Rainford bypass with the intention of a walk to dairy farm road and back, after a mandatory bacon roll and a tea we set of along the footpath. Lots of Skylark and meadow pipits around near the footpaths. The sighting of today was a male Merlin, Mark spotted him sitting on a small tree next to a silver birch along a track, he then flew to a large bush on dairy farm road. We made our way to dairy farm road for a better look but it was disturbed by a passing car and flew back to the same tree near the silver birch. He never came close enough to obtain a decent picture but the sight alone was fantastic. It just goes to show you don't need to go far from home to see amazing birds.