Mark Stubbs comes up trumps again with our first European Shag record since 1989. A single bird was found on 3rd December 1989 and last reported on 18th February 1990. Mark found the bird by the sailing club just after 6-00 this morning and quickly called around to put the news out. Its a good find for inland Cheshire away from the coast. During the week a bird was seen within 500 yds of Astbury Mere in a field exhausted but could not be caught and disappeared into vegetation , hopefully this is the individual . The bird was watched for around four hours constantly diving and did spend many a time eluding visiting birders. A passer bye showed us a photo on his phone from yesterday of the same bird perched up on a willow branch overhanging the water, also local fisherman confirmed that it was present yesterday evening.
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