Longham Lakes - Sat 10 Dec

Our final stop of the day was Longham Lakes and our only twitch of the day! We spent an hour looking for a female Blue-winged Teal, and eventually we tracked it down as it sat on a small island...sleeping! In the fifteen minutes we were watching the bird it did manage to stretch briefly, showing off the blue wing, and remaining diagnostic features and as you can see from my record shot below...it's definately a Blue-winged Teal (seen here with a drake Gadwall).

We also saw another Kingfisher and as we got back to the car a Kestrel flew over startling a fair sized flock of Fieldfares. All in all an enjoyable day out with a couple of my best mates and the first time we'd managed to get together for an age!
UK List for 2011 ended up at 266 species.