My first trip of the month to the reservoir and it started fairly quietly with what is presumably the same juvenile Mandarin again being present from the northern causeway. As I was checking out the gulls I was sure I heard a distant wader call, but nothing was showing so I simply thought my mind was playing tricks on me! Anyway, I then popped round to the Fishing Lodge and sure enough, there was that call again, a Greenshank, and I caught a brief view of it flying towards the Sailing Club before losing it again, but I didn't have long to wait as it then started flying around again before I lost it as it headed east. My second Greenshank of the year following a Spring bird.A somewhat more surprising find this morning though was the presence of four Shoveler in the north-east corner. A couple of Little Egrets were still about and the now ever-present Great Black-backed Gulls numbered at least five birds, including a couple of juvenile birds, which makes one wonder whether they are breeding somewhere nearby.
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