Tuesday 27th August

I took my usual walk around the Reservoir and it didn’t look promising, there was little on the water and I could not pick out any waders along the shoreline. I started to make my way around and in the bushes at the edge of the car park picked up a large warbler bouncing around, I got on quickly to find I was looking at a Reed Warbler my first since the 28th August 2003!

The rest of the walk was uneventful with the wildfowl number pretty stable although the Gadwall numbers have risen to five birds.


Middleton Lakes RSPB

Took Joy for a look at the Wryneck this evening and the bird was performing very well, we had half an hour and left the bird at the Mosquito’s took their toll again.