2:20 -5:30pm. Weather: cloudy but bright, cool; cold wind (southerly).
Departing Teeside heading to Norfolk I wanted to visit the famous reservoir on the way, & hoped to see an English osprey. It was a long drive, but not too gruelling down the motorway & it was good to see the finally see the place I'd heard so much about.
Car-park, Visitors' Centre & Hides.
Jackdaw, Chaffinch, Blackbird, Greylag Goose, Tufted Duck, Mute Swan.
Egyptian Goose - 2.
Gadwall, Mallard, Pochard, Black-Headed Gull, Coot, Cormorant, Moorhen, Teal, Canada Goose, Wigeon, Shelduck, Rook.
Song Thrush - heard only.
Chiffchaff - singing near the hide, one of the first of the year.
Redshank.
Robin - heard.
Goldeneye, Crow, Shoveler.
Pheasant - heard.
Dunlin Hide.
Oystercatcher, Redshank, Common Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull.
Swallow - 3 arriving migrants.
Sandpiper Hide.
Little Ringed Plover - 2 on a small sandbank then another flew in to make 3.
Dunlin - 1 with the LRPs.
Shoveler Hide.
Scaup - 2 on the reservoir's far-side from the hide, kindly pointed out by a fellow birder.
Little Grebe.
Visitors' Centre.
Wren - heard.
Chaffinch, Collared Dove, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Greenfinch, Dunnock, Goldfinch.
Mallard Hide.
Great-Crested Grebe, Curlew, Kestrel.
Sand Martin - plenty buzzing around the reedbeds & over lagoon 1.
OSPREY - after being disappointed in not seeing any birds on their nesting platforms, we were about to depart disappointed when one floated in from the south & high over the hide. Quite distinctive & although I had seen one in Britain before in Scotland (which I didn't record anywhere) this was my first in England.
Car-park.
Great Spotted Woodpecker - the trees adjacent to the car-park.
Woodpigeon - a usual car-park dustbin presence!
50 species.
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