Black-Throated Diver - Crosby Marine Lake, Lancashire
Perhaps not the 'Black-Throated' species I should have gone for today, but I was glad I managed to stop in on the Black-Throated Diver at Crosby Marine Lake. This juvenile has been present for some time, and with my only previous views of this species being some distant birds on the sea in Scotland, this bird was high on my weekend to-do list! After meeting up with Austin, we arrived and walked the length of the lake with no sign, a BirdGuides report came on and quickly told us we'd walked to the wrong side of the lake! We quickly got on the Black-Throated Diver , and amazingly it just kept swimming closer! Easily my best Diver views yet. A single showy Turnstone was also moving around the rocky shoreline, but apart from that the lake was fairly quiet. The poor light didn't help photography, but it was a proper frame-filler! We then quickly called at Martin Mere on the way back, the weather was even grimmer by this point, but the sight of up to 3 Bramblings at the Jane...