TRING RESERVOIRS Saturday

At Wilstone Reservoir today: 1 TURNSTONE briefly at 12.30 (the first at the site in 2009), 1 Juvenile MEDITERRANEAN GULL on mud until flushed by a dog, 11 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 9 Shoveler, 16 Teal, 1 Wigeon, 54 Common Tern and a Red Kite. At Rye Meads: 8 Green Sandpiper, 15 broods of Tufted Duck, 3 of Pochard. At Amwell, 1 Red-crested Pochard (Graham White)