Jimmy & I set off early on Saturday in the hope of seeing the reported Baikal Teal at Fen Drayton, it has been there most of the time we have been in Scotland & is still hanging about being reported on Friday.
It's about 60 miles away so not to bad, when we arrive & turn into the reserve its' a very long drive down to the car park, we stop to ask a couple if they know where to go for the target bird & they tell us to park on the verge where we are & it's only about 1/2 mile away.
The time now is just after 7 o'clock & we spend the next 3 hours along with many other birders scanning the lake but it looks like we have missed this bird.
We do get 3 year ticks out of the trip when we see a Little-ringed Plover & one Sedge Warbler over the back of the bus lane in the bushes, the third tick comes as we head back to the car when a pair of Blackcap display very nice for us.
So if the Baikal gets the thumbs up we've missed it, but it's our first visit to Fen Drayton & it's a nice place but you do have to be watchful of the buses that bomb through the middle of the reserve.
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