Tuesday 21st January

A day out with my mate Andy saw us heading for Cheddar Reservoir in Somerset to look for a female Smew that has been there for quite a while . We arrived to find the reservoir shrouded in mist so we thought that we would have no chance at all of finding it , but we walked along the edge for a bit when Andy shouted out I got it , I ran over to where he was and looked out in the mist to the far side and said to him that I could not see it and he laughed and said it here right in front of us so we spent quite a bit of time just enjoying this bird .
We then went on to Maiden Castle in Dorset where we saw 400+ European Golden Plover , 5 European Skylark and a single Corn Bunting .
Our last stop was at Radipole Lake in Weymouth where we saw 5 Mediterranean Gull in the car park , and in the reedbed outside the center there were 3 male and 2 female Bearded Reedling showing very well in deed , was super little birds these are .