A 9am call from Brian to say he was heading over to the KGV Res as a Phalarope had been reported there, we all needed one for a year tick, so we arranged to meet him over there.
It's local to us and only takes 15 minutes despite the 20-mile-an-hour traffic through Chingford. As we park up, Harry is on the way back from seeing the bird. He tells us the Phalarope had moved down to the southeast corner of the south basin.
Brian was already down there watching the bird; this is only a short walk from the car park along the top end of the reservoir. The walk got even shorter when Brian was heading back towards us, as the bird had flown up to meet us and landed not far away near the edge of the water.
We get a really good view of what turned out to be a Grey Phalarope, not as reported a Red Phalarope.
Always nice to see Harry and other local birders when we visit here, and meet a new birder in Richard, who was the one to find the bird.
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| The Grey Phalarope. |
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