Digley Reservoir

The same morning as my early trip to Blackmoorfoot we took Laddie for a walk around Digley reservoir and saw Canada Geese, Tufted Duck (just one) and 3 Mallards (one of which was a domestic cross).

There was a large amount of unusal bird noise and activity going on around us in the sky and surrounding moorland and farmland I will definately go for a proper birding trip to Digley soon as I'm sure there's lots to to see. The local bird club website has reports of Sand Martins which I'll definately look for... there's an old quarry at Digley which would be my first port of call in search of those.

One I'm convinved I also saw a Little Grebe on the water. I was quite a way off but I'm sure it was small, reddy brown headed and diving... but when I got closer 5 minutes later it was no-where to be seen... but nor was there anything else. I'm not happy enough to call it a tick... but I'll be keeping an eye out for it next time.