Somehow, I convinced my better half a visit to the reservoirs would be a nice way to spend the morning together.
We headed for Lockwood first. At the bottom of Lockwood there was a flurry of juvenile pied wags and many juvenile black-headed gulls. Actually, that's pretty much the long and short of it for the day - juveniles of all our patch species everywhere. There were 3 common sandpipers and a kingfisher at the top of Lockwood.
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| (distant) Common Sandpiper |
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| Cormorant |
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| Grey Wagtail |
The overflow chanel was very low too, but held nothing of interest.
En route to East Warwick, we spent a a bit of time appreciating the blue damselflies, banded demoiselles and the funky-punky red-eyed damselflies.
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| Red-eyed Damselfy |
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| Red-eyed next to a Common Blue Damselfy |
Over EW, a smattering of sand martins could be heard and there were a group of loafing common terns basking at the top end banks. A lone common sandpiper worked its way up the east bank.
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| Common Tern |
Then we went to the Ferry Boat Inn. I painted a coot and she painted an apple.
Most Excellent G & S!
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