Sutton Bingham - Fri 25 Mar

I've been working from home this week so I've been able to make a few trips to the reservoir. However, I've not managed to find anything much of note all week, and other than a few singing Chiffchaffs, I've found no Spring migrants.

A stop on Wednesday morning did produce a Coot and a Little Grebe on West Pool, both are fairly hard to find birds at the reservoir nowadays.

This morning a single drake Shoveler was amongst the Wigeon flock, which numbered seventy-three birds, still pretty high for the time of year. A Raven flew over and at least three Great Black-backed Gulls were present.

Finally, a quick lunchtime visit turned up a couple of unseasonal gulls, with a very smart adult summer-plumaged Mediterranean Gull and a rather shabby second calendar year Common Gull.