Heavy rain was forecast overnight and it chucked it down clearing up by around 9am. I got myself together and headed out to the Water Meadows.
The water levels are rising and this morning groups of Canada and Greylag Goose arrived to feed in the fields alongside the growing numbers of waterfowl!
A Little Grebe was spending its second day with a flyover Peregrine and a Mistle Thrush to add to the October species total.
Brett was spending his second day sifting through the gulls at Silverlake (Warmwell Gravel Pits) having had a couple of YLG the previous day. It was not a gull that had me trotting the couple of miles to the site but an immature female Scaup which he had located on the far side of the East Lake.
Scope views of the Scaup were better showing a lighter cheek patch and the extent of the white around the base of the bill.
I thought birds were a distance away at the water meadows but here it was something else! Several attempts failed including video footage via the heavy artillery! A few shots were obtained after a slog after burning two camera batteries having not charged them up overnight! Fortunately one battery had enough life to take some pictures before it died on me!
Village idiot is up for grabs I might apply!
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