With very little time to spare the three of us head over to our local reservoir.
After a three-hour walk around the water, we add to the year ticks.
Little Grebe is the first tick when we see at least ten of them, loads of birds out there such as Pochard, Wigeon, Gadwall, Coot, and a few Goldeneye.
Walking around the far side of the reservoir we pick out Redwing, Fieldfare, and Siskin, a very large flock of Goldfinch flies in, and Brian and Jimmy spot a single Greenfinch that we all need for a tick but somehow I manage to miss it enough said there.
Another scan over the water gets us a couple of ticks when we pick out a Greater Scaup and after a long scan, we find a Slavonian Grebe always a good tick.
Before leaving two Peregrines land on a pylon for another tick before just popping up the road to get a view over the William Girling and get lucky when we pick out three Great Northern divers. This is a private reservoir but if the birds are in the right place you can sometimes pick them out from a road.
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