Kingsbury Water Park.

I decided the other day that Kingsbury Water Park was well overdue a visit and today didn't disappoint with some great early morning weather and plenty of birds to see especially waterfowl on the fifteen lakes situated in over 600 acres of country park. Birds spotted today were Treecreeper, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Chaffinch, House Sparrow, Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay, Rook, Carrion Crow, Blackbird, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, Little Egret, Shoveler, Goosander, Gadwall, Wigeon, Pochard, Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot, Pekin Duck, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Mallard and Cormorant. It was great to see plenty of Great Crested Grebe pairing up and doing their courtship dance/display, hopefully there will be plenty of Great Crested Grebe juveniles born this year because they look great with their black and white striped heads and basically you don't see enough of this stunning looking elegant bird. There were plenty of Robin's about today all eager enough to take a bit of bird seed or biscuit that was on offer, so was a lone male Chaffinch even though he was being bullied out of the way by a pair of Robin's. Strangely enough I didn't see a single Raptor today, which is unusual for such a big site. The only bad things about today was seeing a one legged Mallard drake which you could tell had lost it's leg due to some discarded fishing line that one of the chav's with sticks had left behind, hopefully he'll stay close to the other Mallards, Greylag Geese, Canada Geese and Pekin Ducks he was with and the poor chap will be okay, the other sorry sight was seeing the remains of a dead swan, if it had to die, then hopefully it was killed by another animal and not at a (so called) humans hands, which worryingly is on the rise. It doesn't seem that long ago from last year when I was looking forward to the summer migrants arriving i.e Swallows, Swifts and Sand Martin's and here we are again twelve months later and they are just weeks away from arriving again, which is nice.