Teal Drake

Down into Lancashire for one of my periodic regional meetings.  Lovely weather but the traffic on the M6 was beyond a joke.  Fortunately the business was concluded on time and after a nice lunch with the weather still fine I heard the reserve calling.

So off I went to Mere Sands Reserve.  Many changes since my last visit, a new building has been erected and the thinning out of the trees coupled with the clearing of Rhododendron  is progressing well.

However it wasn't a particularly interesting day from a bird point of view.  They were all except the Teal and a single Coot far to far away for photography.

Birds seen:

Canada Goose,
Tufted Duck
Mallard
Goosander
Teal
Coot 
Moorhen 
Blackbird
Robin