Red Necked Grebe Roding Valley

It's not very often we get to twitch a good bird on foot from the front door but that was the case tonight with the Red Necked Grebe juvenile on the main lake behind Bradwell Road, Buckhurst Hill.

With the light fading and after a hard days graft I walked over to the lake to catch decent views of the youngster which I think would be my first in Essex.

Hope it hangs around a few days as being local It'd be good to catch up with it with the camera at some point.

Bird on main lake by red pin