A flying visit on the way in to work produced a pair of Raven and a Meadow Pipit flyting over West Pool and a Kingfisher perched in one of the small trees that over hand the water.
Returning later in the day I had a bit of time available so checked out the southern end of the reservoir, an area I'd been ignoring of late. Two Water Rail were heard calling and fifteen Snipe were flushed from the water's edge. A flock of around seventy Teal were keeping company with twenty or so Wigeon but were very flighty and almost impossible to scan fully for anything different.
I then set off for the northern end of the reservoir and checked out the gull roost. I could only find a couple of Mediterranean Gulls tonight so decided to pop across to the dam to see if anything was loitering in that area.
From the dam a further eighty-nine Wigeon were present but the only other bird of note was a single Kingfisher, and with the light nearly gone it was time to go home.
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