Afternoon at Amwell.

With Jimmy on holiday from work, we have an afternoon at Amwell nature reserve, it's only 20 minutes from home so it's no hardship driving there.
We arrive just after one o'clock & spend a good three hours just looking around, we start at Great Hardmead Lake & that is full of Gulls, also many Shoveler are seen swimming all over the lake,we pick out a male Pintail really nice that, a Snipe flies in & lands on the Island, then we see a Water Rail walk about in front of us for a good few minutes, the lake is full of all the usual like Tufted Duck, Gadwell,Great-crested Grebe,Mallard,Cormorant,Pochard.
Then we see two male Goldeneye  four female as well, as Jimmy scopes them he See's a female Smew swimming with them.
We decide to walk round the back of the reserve to find some feeders hanging between some trees not to far from the road, while here we see Long-tailed Tits, at least six Redwing along with loads of Chaffinch, a pair of Greenfinch pop in & out of the trees, then we notice a Buzzard not to far away from us, the light is not good but we are close enough to get a photo of sorts.
All in all a very nice afternoon birding.

The Buzzard

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