23rd June - cloudy, very little breeze, warm, humid 20C

I noticed a Buzzrd had become a road casualty this morning.

This evening I visited Stanford reservoir, it was a humid, still evening.  On the dam the moulting Canada and Greylag Geese flock is growing, 99 of the latter.  Also, there were about 30 Mallards, all looking very scruffy now.  A new brood of 6 Mallard ducklings and two broods of Mute Swans, a four and a two, were out on the water.  The drake Goldeneye and Pochard were present too.

Five Common Tern were feeding.  The colour ringed bird that I saw on the 20 June was ringed at Brandon marsh as a nestling on 25th July 2013, so a bird that has returned to the Midlands, probably several times.

All the usual warblers were present and still singing, best of all two Grasshopper Warblers were 'reeling', only a few yards away but still hidden in the scrub.  I don't recall hearing these here this late in other years.

A Curlew flew over SW and out of sight. Two Grey Wagtails were around the entrance drive fence, usually they are found on the overflow weir.