Priorslee Lake, Telford, Shropshire, Britain.

An hour checking out Priorslee Lake from the car.

Ebird List.

 

I started the day by filling the car up at Sainsburys and the popping just down the road to one of my old birding spots at Priorslee Lake but when I got there I decided to do the count from the car as it was cold and breezy.

Great Egret (Garceta Grande / Ardea alba).

As I scanned the water I picked up Mute Swan (Cisne Vulgar / Cygnus olor), a single Canada Goose (Barnacla Canadiense / Branta canadensis), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Common Pochard (Porrón Europeo / Aythya ferina), Tufted Duck (Porrón Moñudo / Aythya fuligula), Gadwall (Anade Friso / Mareca strepera), Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Great Crested Grebe (Somormujo Lavanco / Podiceps cristatus) and just before I was about to leave 2x male Goosander (Serreta Grande / Mergus merganser) flew in.

Other species included good numbers of Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo), Black-headed (Gaviota Reidora / Chroicocephalus ridibundus), European Herring (Gaviota Argéntea Europea / Larus argentatus) and Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus).

Great Egret (Garceta Grande / Ardea alba).

Around the margins and in the reeds there were a few more species including a Little (Garceta Común / Egretta garzetta) and 2x Great Egret (Garceta Grande / Ardea alba), Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus) and Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica).

I finished birding and then went up the road to see Sue (Jayne's Sister) and Peter before returning to the Village where I popped in and saw Barbara (another of Jayne's Sisters) and finally Brenda (you guessed it, another of Jayne's Sisters ) and Kieth.