Wader chicks & Teal

Plenty of young waders today, with Curlews giving alarm calls at nearly every stop.
Windleden Edge - 1 Curlew chick at the side of the road.
Winscar Reservoir - 37 Canada Geese + seven broods totalling 23 gosling, two new broods of Mallards totalling 9 ducklings, three pairs Oystercatcher  with 5 young, two pairs of Common Sandpipers, one with 2 young and a pair of Whinchat.
Ingbirchworth Reservoir - 30 Canada Geese, 43 Mallards, 5 Tufted Ducks , 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Little Grebe and 2 Oystercatchers.
Langsett Reservoir - 21 Canada Geese + two broods of 11 goslings, 1 Greylag Goose x Canada Goose and 2 Common Sandpipers + 2 young.



Low Moor, Upper Midhope - 2 adult Common Snipe with 4 young (one significantly smaller than the other three) - pictured abave -, and a large Curlew chick dead beside the road.
Midhope Reservoir - 7 Mallards, a female Teal with 2 ducklings, 1 Little Grebe and 2 Moorhens.