SCAUPS still present

Pip Housden and I visited the MVMP, M Pillinge, Millbrook Station complex for a few hours this afternoon...... almost 50 species found - highlights were 2 singing Cetti's, of which I glimpsed one, by L3 and a "self-found" Oyk on the Pillinge where also 2 Redshanks.

4 Lesser Redpolls were in an alder by the circular path including a pale full summer male but not a mealy how ever much we tried.

Late afternoon at Brogborough Lake and all 4 scaup (2m2f) were close together for once. 24 Goldeneye also seen here and almost a rarity now that the pits have closed, a first-summer and a second-summer Herring Gull, both argenteus, were also found

Martin J Palmer