I didn't manage to get to the reservoir yesterday as I was otherwise committed helping my daughter in law with a hospital visit which lasted over ten hours but I woke early this morning hoping to be able to give the reservoir another walk but the problem with that plan was the weather. We're in the middle of a heat wave with temperature of around 36 degrees all week. It rained heavy all night with thunder and lightning which was still going at 5am this morning. I waited for the rain to stop at around 6am and headed over to the George. The problem with being later meant it got hotter before I'd completed the four miles which made for a bit of a slog on the last mile or so.
My reward for the effort was good views of the five Ravens that remain a tight family group still. A Redshank remains and has now been present for a week and one of the Ostercatchers that breed locally was seen heading south whilst another or the same Lapwing I've see twice this month headed high to the north. Three Common Sandpipers were present with two on the causeway and one at the north end and I picked up a total species count of 60 for the day but nothing new for the month of June.
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Still enjoying the walk and to my utter surprise the counting for Ebird.
The Grest Crested Grebe have surprised me with numbers pretty high throughout with so many birds living on the reservoir all year. Tufted duck numbers fell to almost single figures but are now climbing again slowly on each visit and the first Pochards have started to arrive back on the reservoir.
Of note in the last week has been the arrival of juvenile Black headed gulls which jumped from 1 two days ago to 12 today. Looking forward to what July might bring which traditionally is another quite month but I'll hope it delivers more than 80 species and hopefully something new for the year too.
I'll see if I can muster the motivation I currently have for July at least then worry about August etc when it gets here.
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