Out of County experience

I was due to check out some nearby ponds with Daniel yesterday evening but with the forecast ever changing with nice looking easterly fronts sweeping across the Country, we thought we would try our luck at one of the local reservoirs instead.

We opted to go out of county into Northamptonshire to Boddington Reservoir arriving just as the rain appeared and we immediately found four terns flying around, a fifth was found on a buoy which we soon identified as an Arctic (which was a bonus).

A relaxed walk round the reservoir gave us a singing Grey Wagtail at the dam along with a Cuckoo and an Oystercatcher with the hedgerows supplying Dunnocks, Whitethroats, Tits, Bullfinch and Chiffchaffs.

I had not explored Boddington before, it's an excellent little reservoir and probably just as near as Draycote is from me.  Somewhere to be visited more frequently.