I briefly popped in to look at the Cotesbach pools, I counted 55+ Pied Wagtails feeding, 8 Canada Geese were on the main pool, but little else was around.
After lunch I initially visited the landfill site, although many hundred of Gulls were seen in this area during the morning this afternoon there was only a handful at the landfill,itself. Overhead, a little distant, two large flocks of Gulls were wheeling in the sky, but they dispersed away.
So, I decided to make a brief visit to Stanford reservoir as some waders have stared to drop in. I was surprised to see the water level now very low with most of the east end practically empty, but with some deeper water still at the dam end. 17 Little Egrets and several Grey Heron were bust feeding. In the shallows and the deep water area Goosanders numbered about 40. Obviously the diving duck were restricted to the deeper water area, still good number of Pochard, Goldeneye and a Tufted Duck. Among them I spotted a pair of Pintail. Mallard and Teal were numerous around the shallow pools and shore. Great-crested Grebe numbers are quite high currently, some display and possible nest site prospecting was going on. Usually they don't breed here due to lack of nest sites when the reservoir is full, but now there are many floating 'weed' islands which could be to their liking.
A Song Thrush was in full Song on the far shore. A flock of about Redwings flew past, with at least one Filedfare.
About 1600h. ~40 Redwing flew SE passed the villlage.
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