Dipped again Lesser-spotted at Stocker's lake.

A flying visit with Brian & Jimmy to Stocker's lake where a Lesser-spotted Woodpecker has been showing most of the week, we arrive at the lake near Rickmansworth at around 7 am.
Only a couple of people looking for the bird at this time & they had not seen or heard it up till now.
We allow our self a good 4 hour's to  see if the bird will show but nothing is seen or heard while we are here.
A pair of Red-crested Pochard give us all a year tick so not altogether a wasted trip,but Jimmy & myself had to spend over an hour walking the lake before we found them.
Meet another new face here who had just got himself into birding & we pass on a few tips about where to go for him to get the best out of the hobby, I'm just a novice myself but you realise how far you have progressed when you talk to somebody really new to the hobby.

The pair of Red-crested Pochard

Wren

Great-crested Grebe