I was out on my own today and
visited Groby Pool first. I walked the
short distance from the car park to the pool and along to the overflow and soon
found the female Common Scoter that has been present for a few days. It was swimming away and began feeding close
to the reed-bed to the north. It began
to swim back towards the overflow but then moved in towards the reeds to the
east. I walked further along the
footpath and found it feeding close in but it soon swam out again and on
walking back to the overflow I was unable to locate it.
Drake Pochard at Groby Pool
Female Common Scoter at Groby Pool
Great Tit at Groby Pool
I decided to go to Swithland
Reservoir and visited the south side first but there wasn’t anything of note
and appeared to be far fewer birds than usual.
On reaching the north side the two Peregrines were sitting in the tree
at the top of Buddon Wood but both had disappeared before I left. I also found another Common Scoter with
several Tufted Ducks and there were three Goldeneye present as well. A Buzzard flew low over Buddon Wood and a
Nuthatch was heard calling.
I was out on my own today and
visited Groby Pool first. I walked the
short distance from the car park to the pool and along to the overflow and soon
found the female Common Scoter that has been present for a few days. It was swimming away and began feeding close
to the reed-bed to the north. It began
to swim back towards the overflow but then moved in towards the reeds to the
east. I walked further along the
footpath and found it feeding close in but it soon swam out again and on
walking back to the overflow I was unable to locate it.
I decided to go to Swithland
Reservoir and visited the south side first but there wasn’t anything of note
and appeared to be far fewer birds than usual.
On reaching the north side the two Peregrines were sitting in the tree
at the top of Buddon Wood but both had disappeared before I left. I also found another Common Scoter with
several Tufted Ducks and there were three Goldeneye present as well. A Buzzard flew low over Buddon Wood and a
Nuthatch was heard calling.
From Swithland Reservoir I
decided to go to Blackbrook Reservoir.
As I walked down the track to
the reservoir it was very wet with a stream running down along the track and
into the reservoir. I did manage to get
to the bridge and was able to scope the south west edge of the reservoir but it
not possible to see all of it. There
were a lot of Mallard and I did locate a couple of Wigeon and a Teal and
eventually a male and female Mandarins.
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