Chew Valley lake 30/11/13- great birding

Herons green

• 100+ pochards
• 2 goosanders- male+ female
• Tufted ducks
• 3 mute swans
• 10+ pied wagtails
• A magpie
• A great tit
• 30+ gulls
• 4 lapwing
• Great crested grebe
• 70+ cormorants going into roost
• 2 PINK FOOTED GEESE- I have never seen these before and are very rare this far south and are very rare in the Avon/Somerset area
• Poss  FERRIGINOUS DUCK adult male not been reported here for a few weeks.

  

  Pink footed geese adults

 Goosander male

 Cormorant flock

Pochard (top left) possible Ferriginous duck (right) with tufted (bottom)

Woodford lodge

• A grey heron
• 2 little grebes
• Great crested grebe
• Fieldfare
• The BLACK THROATED DIVER juv still coming close occasionally but staying quite distant
  
• Black throated diver juv

Dam

• 7 tufted ducks
• A pochard
• Mallards
• 8 great crested grebes
• 3 goosander males
• 4 Goldeneye- 2 males, 2 females
• LONG TAILED DUCK- juv, never seen this species before and this was individual was feeding quite distantly

  

   Long tailed duck juv

  
• Goldeneye females