Standlake - 2 January 2017

What brilliant weather today! Unfortunately my birding didn't do it justice... At Standlake, despite a fair amount of tramping around, I managed to miss the Smew and Bean Geese, but did see a very distant Great White Egret on Pit 38.

I found little within camera range, apart from this moderately obliging Red Crested Pochards on Pit 28 (the one on the other side of the track from the Pit 60 North Shore Hide).

Red-crested Pochards

Red-crested Pochard

Pit 60 (both hides) was particularly quiet, with little of much of note and nothing at all in photo range.