Wonderful early morning sunshine and the first significant frost of the autumn created some lovely early morning views.
A fairly quick early morning visit to Grimsbury Reservoir on my way into work was well worth the trouble, enabling me to add a new bird to my site list - a single female goldeneye.
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| female goldeneye |
Great crested grebes now number six - the highest number this autumn so far.
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| great-crested grebe taking a drink |
A pair of mute swans were also in residence, swimming their way sedately to the far end, then taking flight to return to the near end.
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| mute swan take-off |
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| one of the herd |
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| starling in smartly spotty winter plumage |
I nipped back to Upper Wardington at lunchtime and found a small flock of common gulls (15) in a small sheep grazed field next to the cricket pitch. Nice to see and likely to be newly arrived from up north.
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