Coot Club

Limited birding opportunities today so there was massive excitement this morning when I scanned the lake and found this...

A coot, honest

It doesn't get any better than that! Well, it didn't for me today anyway.

Galley gets more Gadwall

Gracing the lake this afternoon were a pair of gadwall - great (63)! I only ticked gadwall on the patch two winters ago, and had 4 more last December, so to get another two today was a good bonus for the year - result