Stanford reservoir;
This morning the ringers caught a Yellow-browed Warbler, unfortunately I could not make it in time for its release, nevertheless a great bird for the site and Midlands, even though good numbers are on the east coast at the moment.
I managed to make it about 1300h and just became searching for the YBW when Chris came with word that the ringers may have a Red-throated Pipit in the bag, so we went to look. The pipit had some features of a Red-throated such as primary feather pattern, length of tertials, bill colour but lacked the white lines down its back which are characteristic, so was considered most likely a Meadow Pipit.
So, I continued my hopeful search for the YBW. A Red Kite flew low over the water and lifted something out of the water, it looked like a leaf the Gulls had been playing with earlier. The number of Pochard has now increased to 14, all good signs of new arrivals. A Buzzard was feeding on the ground of a field being cultivated. No YBW though.
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