An intrepid piece of fieldcraft by local birders Allan Conlin & Kenny Dummigan resulted in the first Surf Scoter for Cheshire & Wirral being found off Hoylake on Wednesday 25th March 2015. The full account can be read on the Lighthouse & Wirral Birding Blog. Since then as many as 7 Surf Scoters have been seen including 4 adult males, 1 imm male & 2 females.
I made the journey out to the tideline around low tide this morning in glorious sunshine & managed to see two males. Although they were on view most of the time I was there, they did dive together & disappear from time to time. I managed to get an extremely poor phone-scoped record shot of one of the males (on the right of the photo above), but the only one where I was certain there actually was a Surf Scoter in the picture!
Shame it couldn't have been more like this photo!!!