18th Sept - scattered showers, light/mod SSSW breeze, fresher later, 18C

Soar Brook Lake; afternoon.

c55 Stock Doves and c200 Woodpigeons feeding on adjacent arable field.

Not too much at the lake, a little grebe, 28 Greylags and a Cormorant.  Chiffchaff in the hedge.

Stanford reservoir; evening

A Kestrel, Three Teal, two Pochards, one Shoveler, two C0mmon Sandpipers.

c100 Starlings came into roost in reed bed 1840h.