Wintersett regulars walk miles every day through ankle deep mud and all sorts of weather. Ivan Martin strolled 100m in cool, still conditions down to Wintersett Res bench and found the highlight today as he scoped for Scaup. A juvenile GREAT NORTHERN DIVER was in his sights at 13.15hrs. A quick dash from the car park for us, in time to see it diving towards the bench from the north bank. It swam and dived up through the ice in the reeds in front of us and then went round the edge of the water to the west bank before speeding to the south east corner. At 13.55hrs it flew off NE.
Also on WRes - a 1st W male Scaup, a redhead Smew and 3 Little Grebe + 1ACP. A Bittern roosted in the reedbeds tonight.
On Anglers CP - a female Long-tailed Duck, an Egyptian Goose, 3 Gadwall and 204 Wigeon. A 3rd W Yellow-legged Gull came in to the roost.
2 comments:
Well done to him - still out birding almost every day at 80+ is quite an achievement in my opinion.
I agree with your sentiments. Total respect to him.
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