Well, the weather started off nicely. I wasn’t going to do any birding this weekend, but I took an hour out to Kirkby on Bain, 2pm – 3pm.
There wasn’t a lot going on. The reserve has been tidied up for the winter, with much of the crap cleared away and the water level was higher than usual.
There were about 20 shoveler, a few coots and moorhens, 5 little grebe, about 30 teal and about a dozen widgeon. A mixture of gulls included about 10 lesser black backed, three common gulls and 30 black headed.
A nice group of 5 redshank flew in but by then the light was starting to fade as the weather closed in. Across the road, from the entrance to the car park, there was a flock of about 15 long-tailed tits performing in the trees.
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