Dave and I went to Swithland
Reservoir this afternoon as there had been a report of six Scaup. We went to the dam along Kinchley Lane first
and soon found the six juveniles feeding near a couple of Goldeneye. They were constantly diving and initially it
was quiet difficult to see that there was actually six but eventually they were
all sat on the surface and we were able to watch them preening. There was also four female Goosander, which
are not regular visitors to this water, the two Peregrines were perched in
their normal roost tree and a Grey Wagtail flew in and began feeding on the
dam. On the southern side of the
reservoir there were more wildfowl and we found a single drake Mandarin close
to Brazil Island.
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