Catching Up

Last weekend Miriam and I went with our friends Sheila and Alan to see Think Floyd, a very good tribute band at Seaton Town Hall. We have seen them many times and they were on good form again as they went through a great set of Pink Floyd numbers including all of Dark Side of the Moon,which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
On the Sunday we picked up She and Alan after lunch and made our way over to Ham Wall RSPB Reserve. This is a very wheelchair friendly reserve with disabled parking right by the first viewing platform. AS we were driving slowly along the track I noticed our friends Sharon & Steve ahead of us and after a quick chat we went on to park up and let them catch up with us.
I was good to see them again as we had not seen them for a few weeks. After a quick chat we got down to some birding and It wasn't long before Steve had found the Garganey that I was hoping was still around.

Distant View of Male Garganey Anus querquedula

We then walked onto the second viewing platform in the hope that the long staying Pied Billed Grebe would put in an appearance, but it was not to be. We did however see the two Wood Sandpipers and have flyover Marsh Harrier and Bittern and I managed to add some summer migrants to my list with Willow Warbler,Swift,House Martin and Reed Warbler.
I started to get very cold so around 4:30 pm we made our goodbyes and headed for home after what had been a very enjoyable afternoon out.