Sutton Bingham - Tue 24 Oct

A patch year tick today, the first one since mid-September. A small flock of six Pintail were viewable from the dam (not in an area with public access unfortunately). Now if you thought the picture of yesterday's Shoveler was bad, get a load of this:

There were four drake and two duck Pintail. The number of Wigeon had grown to twenty-five birds and seven Meadow Pipits flew over. A quick stop on the northern causeway produced a nice male Stonechat on the fence line south of West Pool.