I visited Stanford reservoir this afternoon, the water is dropping quicker now and should be lowering week on week as they reduce the level, so this should open up lots of shore line for birds to use.
Well, the snow did not last long, all melted away by the morning.
There were 11 Little Egrets and several Grey Heron around the
edge. On the water there was 21 Shoveler, 14 Gossander, 18 Goldeneye,
plus a good number of Wigeon, Pochard, Tufted Duck and Mallard. Only 15
Great crested grebe were present, perhaps some have moved off dude to the cold
weather, two Little Grebe are still present. At least one Kingfisher
darted over the water of number of occasions.
Few passerines were seen today, two Treecreepers were together and
are probably a pair, the usual Tits were seen with Goldcrests. A couple
of Bullfinch were in the hawthorns and late on c50 Linnets had gathered in a
tree top preparing to go to roost in the thicket below them.
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