A nice walk along the reservoir this afternoon with the highlight being a calling Marsh Tit near the car park which gave me the run around a bit before eventually landing in a tree above my head. Marsh Tit seems to get harder each year at Sutton Bingham and the usual haunt has drawn blanks so for this year, so it was good to find this bird in a new area (although I did see one nearby at the end of 2017 so it is possible this is the same bird). A recording of the bird calling can be heard by clicking here.
Another addition to the year list came in the form of a couple of Reed Buntings, an adult male and a first winter male.
Also this afternoon, two Mediterranean Gulls were on the water, one of which was in fine summer plumaged splendour. Two Snipe were flushed from the water's edge and there were still a few winter thrushes around with a couple of dozen Fieldfare and surprisingly much fewer Redwing.
Sutton Bingham year list 2018 now at 67 species.
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