Sutton Bingham - Tue 29 Jul

I'd made my usual two brief visits to the reservoir today. Before work, I didn't really find anything of note. The Wood Sandpiper was still at the southern end, as was the Great White Egret and Yellow-legged Gull. Pete, however, had found three Sedge Warblers just south of the car park!
So my second visit on the way home from work focused just on the area where Pete had success earlier in teh day. And this time I got lucky with some cracking views of a Sedge Warbler, at last. I've missed a few this year, both in the Spring and some early Autumn birds over teh last few weeks, so it was a relief to finally tick one. So a good day.

However, it got even better later in the evening when Bob Buckler posted on the SBR WhatsApp group a picture of a Turnstone. Needless to day, I raced over and before too long found it on the shoreline of West Pool. I managed some great scope views and a couple of ropey record shots, but I was just thrilled to see it, just my second Sutton Bingham sighting.

So I managed two year ticks today, not bad as a productive month draws to it's end.

Sutton Bingham year list for 2025 now at 109 species.