Tring Reservoirs - 16.5.20

A 5.30am start up on the patch for my first visit in months along with Matt + George saw us trying for a few year ticks. We started at Marsworth where a Cuckoo was singing as soon as I opened my car door. A Sedge Warbler was singing from the reedbed along with a Reed Warbler. Out over the water the tail-less 1st Summer Little Gull was still present but soon vanished. 4 Common Sandpiper were flushed by a fisherman and a pair of Mandarin were noted.

Startops had 2 male Yellow Wagtail on the bank and a flyover Oystercatcher.

On Tringford the lower water level had attracted a pair of Little Ringed Plover but there was no sign of the previous days Bar-tailed Godwit or Greenshank.

Wilstone was quiet with just a Lesser Whitethroat and Yellow Wagtail of note.