Sue was kind enough to go via Ringstone Reservoir so I could take a look.
First time birding here and it was very windy with a near gale coming over the reservoir wall.
No useful footpath near the reservoir so most of my time was spent scanning from the road.
You really need a scope here, but today the wind would have blown the scope over!
I did get some reward for the longish journey from Bradshaw though.
Pr. Great Created Grebe ,stayed mostly asleep, on the water.
3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls by the water's edge with a few large Gulls overhead.
Cormorant, Pied Wagtail, Moorhen.
At a good distance from the NW corner a Common Sandpiper - my first local one.
I took quite a few speculative photographs,on full zoom, of the rocky NE shoreline so I could check them out on the laptop later - just in case.
I did get three birds in the photos!! - a Meadow Pipit and 2 Ringed Plover - the Ringed Plover (with the yellow bill just discernible) being my 1st local ones.
A Buzzard was seen as we passed through West Vale.
Apologies for the picture quality.
Try hanging the Ariel off the 6" nail, in the picture rail - worked for us in the 60's.
Buzzard taken from the car
Ringed Plover - a long way off!!
Meadow Pipit a long way off!!
(Unless)
Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
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