Green-winged Teal at Crossness.

Up early & set off for Crossness, not to far away for us to drive.When we start to walk down the side of the sewage works we meet Kev Jarvis & he tells us the the G W Teal is still about, so we walk down the path beside the Thames, we move quite fast as it stinks a bit from the works around here.
We scan the Thames shore for about 10 minutes, before the target is seen not to far away from us, but as I had to walk back to the boys to see it.
The bird flies up & goes to far out for me to get a photo, but Brian did get a photo, so the photo on this page is from Brian.                                                            
With the target seen we move on to the next target a Ring Ouzel in Bedfordshire,we drive to Blows down & walk  to the paddock, the site has lost the sheds that were there & some new fencing been put up.
No sign of the Ouzel but 3 Redstart are seen in great colour, also a couple of Wheatear walking about.
As its' the Ouzel we came to find ,it's decided that we will climb up Kingsbury slope so we can scan the whole area. At the top it takes a little while to recover from the climb, apart from a nice Yellowhammer not to much about, we give it a good try to find the Ouzel but have to admit defeat this time.
From here it's off to Startops End Reservoir, a pair of Red-crested Pochard swim close to the bank as soon as we arrive there.
Also our first Swallow of the year is spotted, along with House Martin, & Terns. 183 ticks so far this year.

Male Red-crested Pochard

Female Red-crested Pochard

Green-winged Teal