Shustoke Reservoir.

Great visit to Shustoke Reservoir this morning which was obviously to see the birds and wildlife but also to see how low the water levels are and it didn't 'disappoint', they were shockingly low which I suppose is no real great surpise, still amazing when you see it with your own eyes, it is currently being topped up by water from the adjacent Fly-Fishers Pool, can't see that making much of a difference but at least they are trying to do something about the situation all the same.

On the water itself that was also fairly strange, not a single Mute Swan or Canada Goose but there were a lot of (maybe over fifty in total) Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail and even Yellow Wagtail with plenty of this year's juveniles in attendance, I've never seen so many at one location, they were clearly loving the waters edge where there will still many insects in and around the algae, there are also a lot of Teasel and wildflowers just down from the grass on the edges of the reservoir of which Linnet have taking a real liking to, first time I've ever seen them venture that far away from the fields, that could possibly be though as some of them have been intensely farmed and there are clearly plenty of seeds and insects around the reservoir, good to see a fair number of Cormorant on the water as well today, above the water there were a few Swift and Swallow but the House Martin number were in their hundreds, always great to see them flying overhead, it was also good to see Lapwing and Common Sandpiper it fairly decent numbers.

Birds seen today were, Blue Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Robin, Wren, Dunnock, Linnet, Grey Heron, Cormorant, Lapwing, Swift, Swallow, House Martin, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Magpie, Great Crested Grebe, Liitle Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Tufted Duck and Mallard.