After a windy cold night I always feel its worth checking the local lakes in your lunch hour as who knows what may have been blown in ..... their are a few inland common scoters at the moment whilst great northern divers are not unheard of neither.
Carr Mill Dam - Difficult to scan from a single location but being the largest you would hope it would hold something but not today save a large gathering of gulls and the regular great crested grebes.
Taylor Park - quite a few of the commoner species all crammed into a small space, with a handful of tufted ducks. After a quick scan I found a single pochard, fairly unusual in the district.
Eccleston Mere - Again fairly barren but it did produce the highlight of the day with a stunning male goldeneye towards the top end. Also a female grey wagtail kept me company on the way around the far side.
Paul B
Glad to hear about the Goldeneye, I've not seen one on the mere yet this winter.
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