NORTH SHORE LOCATIONS

Best times to visit  -  September to March.  

 

Otterspool Promenade

Tide state: Best at low water.

 

Accessed from Aigburth Road via Jericho Lane or Via Liverpool, Sefton Street A5036 onto Riverside Drive.

 

Species to be seen: cormorant, pintail, mallard, redshank, gulls, occasionally   Mediterranean and ring-billed gull. After autumn gales

kittiwake and other seabirds including Leach’s petrel have been recorded.

 

Cressington Promenade

Tide state: Best at low water.

 

Accessed via Aigburth Road by St.Mary’s Church, Grassendale.

 

Species to be seen:  shelduck, pintail, mallard, oystercatcher, turnstone, redshank, dunlin and occasional parties of knot and golden plover.

 

Garston shore     (From this point the Mersey Way footpath starts and goes through to Widnes, Spike Island).

Tide state:  Best at two hours before high water.

 

Accessed via Window Lane, Garston.

 

Species to be seen:  Cormorant, grey heron, shelduck, mallard, pintail, teal, curlew, redshank, dunlin, ringed plover, golden plover, gulls.

 

Oglet Bay, Speke   (Part of the Mersey Way footpath.)

Tide state. Best at two hours before high tide.

 

Accessed from Hale Road via Dungeon Lane, Speke or Baileys Lane, Hale.

 

Species to be seen:  Cormorant, grey heron, shelduck, mallard, pintail, teal, curlew, redshank, dunlin, golden plover, common snipe,

water rail, stonechat. reed bunting, linnet, peregrine falcon, merlin.

 

Hale Lighthouse and shore

Tide state.  Best two hours before high water.

 

Accessed from Church Road, Hale and down Lighthouse Lane or via Within Way, Hale.

 

Species to be seen; Cormorant, grey heron, little egret, shelduck, mallard, wigeon, pintail, teal, Mediterranean gull, curlew, lapwing,

golden plover, grey plover, black-tailed godwit, redshank, dunlin, common snipe, jack snipe, water-rail, rock pipit, linnet, stonechat,

reed bunting, corn bunting, skylark, peregrine falcon, merlin, sparrowhawk, kestrel.

In September and October during early mornings from dawn until about 1030 hours, in suitable weather conditions, (i.e. light southerly wind) there can be very large numbers of swallows, pipits, wagtails, finches, thrushes etc crossing the River Mersey at this point, on their way South.

 

Pickerings Pasture, Halebank

Tide state.  Best at low water.

 

Accessed from Halegate Road onto Mersey View Road.,

 

Species to be seen: Golden plover, lapwing, redshank, curlew, dunlin, cormorants, grey heron, gulls, peregrine falcon, common buzzard,

kestrel, sparrowhawk, linnet, goldfinch, greenfinch at the feeding station and the occasional kingfisher and little egret.

 

Spike Island/Widnes Warth, Widnes

 

Accessed from Widnes A562 onto Waterloo Road.

 

Species to be seen; Curlew, lapwing, golden plover, redshank, shelduck, mallard, kestrel and

occasional harrier and short eared owl