Staines Reservoirs

Well it was a gloomy old day but there was a window around mid-morning where a brief hiatus in the rainfall prompted me to head over to Staines.

I've never really liked Staines Reservoirs to be honest.  The large waterbodies do draw in real interest during the migratory seasons, but it is ostensibly a god forsaken place having also to put up with the constant fear that my car could at any moment be broken in to.

Anyway, I headed along the causeway.  There were plenty of midgies trying to forcefully work their way into any orifice they could find but I fought them away with great skill and fortitude.

There were plenty of Black Headed Gull on the South Basin but a few goodies to be found within the congregation.  Most notably, three Little Gull (2 1cy, and an adult winter), an Arctic Tern, two Common, Tern, four smart Black-necked Grebe, a pair of Goldeneye, and the continuing American Horned Lark.

Small groups of Wigeon and Shoveler were still present, and half a dozen flighty Meadow Pipit scurried along the exposed margins.