Great Northern Diver.at Staines

Really nasty weather on saturday stops us going anywhere.
So with the weather a bit better on sunday we meet up with Brian at 6.30 & head for Sandhurst, it's about 68 miles away, the target is the Pallas's Warbler that has been about for some weeks now.
As we going past Staines Reservoir we pop in for a quick look for the Great Northern Diver that has been reported. Brian spots it after about 20 minutes, it's right over the back of the water, so another good spot by Brian, 163 ticks for the year for me.
We also see a Black-necked Grebe, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe that treated us to a head-wagging display.
We don't hang about to long as it's really cold & it's a very exposed site.
Not to far away now from Sandhurst, when we get there, we find the car park & head up the track to the river looking for  the conveyor belt that has been posted as the most likely place to see the Pallas's.
Two hours later with the rain getting harder, we still get no sight of it.
We had split up to cover more ground but apart from Brian thinking he had heard it nothing doing.
Up & down the river we see many Goldcrest, Robin, Tits of allsorts, Dunnock, but we have to give up as the rain is getting heavy.