Sutton Bingham - Sun 1 Oct

A good start to the month with some good birds but no new ones for the year list. I arrived in the afternoon and stopping at the northern causeway noted a small flock of eight Egyptian Geese.

Having made a mad dash to the reservoir in early April during a lunch break to twitch one, I've now found a party chilling out together.

I then headed to the southern end, where a single Common Sandpiper and three Teal were present, before checking out Cotton Bridge which produced a sizeable flock of feeding birds but a Marsh Tit was the best of the bunch.

Round then to the Fishing Lodge and I found two Wheatears, continuing the excellent number of records this Autumn (bucking the trend with regard to passerine migrants this year). A single Stonechat was also present to round off an interesting visit to the patch.