Last night at the KOS meeting (birds of Spain) Terry Laws told me he had found a Whooper Swan on Abbey Mead lake during the morning,he had also seen a Peregrine and Little Egret in the area.I couldn`t get out until this afternoon but I quickly located the bird on the streamside lake and managed to get extremely close,so I would presume its the same bird that turned up in the area last year.

Although I didn`t see the Peregrine I did see the Little Egret flying over towards the scrape area and also noted that Coot numbers have fallen a lot over the past week or more along with Tufted Duck and Gadwall.