4th October 2020 - Burton Mill Pond and Brooklands

I gave it an hour at dawn for the juvenile Purple Heron found by Dave and Penny Green the day before at Burton Mill Pond. The weather was awful it was chucking it down with rain and it was very windy, I packed it in at 8am but didn't think the bird had departed overnight given the weather conditions. I did see two Kingfishers, five Great Crested Grebes and a Hobby. 

I headed to Brooklands afterwards where I met up with David and in a brief search we found a female Tufted Duck on the lake along with four Teal, a Little Grebe and a singing Cetti's Warbler. The weather was really deteriorating by now so I headed home and got some jobs around the house done.