Despairing of rail services I decided to have a tram ride up to Bury for a walk around Elton Reservoir.
A couple of bird feeders had been put back up in the trees by the car park and they were busy with great tits, chaffinches and blue tits with goldfinches and coal tits getting in when they got the chance. It's early in the season to be looking for siskins or redpolls but I had a look for them anyway, just in case.
The sailing club end of the reservoir was very busy. A couple of dozen each of black-headed gulls, Canada geese and mallards loafed on the mud bank with a few cormorants and lesser black-backs. A couple of pairs of gadwall dabbled by the mud bank while half a dozen teal dabbled at the shore. Thirty-odd coots squabbled and dived on the open water and a couple of mute swans fed by the far bank.
No joy finding the juvenile garganey that's been on the reservoir but I'd only gone a couple of hundred yards along the bank before I had to rush off home to sort something out. Real life has to intrude occasionally.
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