Greater Scaup

This beautiful male Scaup turned up on our local pit on Sunday - it gave us the run around as it seemed to like commuting between a couple of pits.

Scarlet Elf Cup

Started the day with Laughton Forest hoping to see Lesser Spottted Woodpeckers but failed miserably however did see 2 stunning male Bramblings, 30ish Redpolls, 2 Nuthatch and at least 3 Great Spots drumming.  We then moved on to Messingham where we were shown these beautiful Scarlet Elf Caps unfortunately the photo doesn't do them justice - on the bird front we had 2 Woodcock, 1 Bittern, 12 Snipe, at least 3 Water Rails calling and Wayne picked up this female Scaup on the small pond behind the reserve.