Sutton Bingham - Wed 25 Jan

After the recent run of cold weather much of the reservoir has become covered with ice, this meant that today most of the birds were located at the southern end in one place where there was open water. This made counting the gathered wildfowl slightly easier than normal and I ended up with totals of 193 Teal, 190 Canada Geese, seventy-seven Mallard and sixty-nine Wigeon. For a bit of variety I also found three Shoveler (a drake, duck and first-winter drake), and the Barnacle Goose also turned up again.

Finally on the duck front, two drake Tufted Duck were present off the dam. The only other sightings of note this afternoon were of two fly-over Meadow Pipits and ten Common Gulls resting on a frozen West Pool.