Grey Phalarope

Grey Phalarope, Brogborough Lake, 22nd September 2018

Nightingale

Nightingale feeding young, Brogborough lake, 19th June 2016 by Neil Wright

Nightingale Brogborough Gull Watch

I spent at least 4 & 1/2 hours on site this morning trying to get a half decent shot of the resident Nightingale, which I must say was extremely vocal but remained pretty much invisible throughout bar the odd partial sighting. It spent most of its time either in the middle or on the opposite side of the hawthorns adjacent to the watch point throughout.

All very frustrating when they are literally only a couple of feet away, anyway persistence finally paid off and I got a few shots of it when it let its guard down and a couple of Lesser Whitethroats distracted it.

Other birds seen on site Whitethroat, Blackcap, G S Woodie, 2 Cuckoos (together on tree in lake), Black-necked Grebe, Common Tern, Heron, Great Crested Grebe.

Nightingale

Nightingale, Brogborough Lake, 24th April 2016

Black-necked Grebe

Black-necked Grebe in the gloomy corner of Brogborough Lake, Sun morning 3rd April

Slavonian Grebe

Slavonian Grebe, Brogborough Lake, 24th January 2016

Two hybrid ducks

Hybrid Tufted Duck x Pochard, Brogborough Lake, 24th January 2016

Presumed drake hybrid Tufted Duck x Scaup, Brogborough Lake, 24th January 2016

Slavonian Grebe

Slavonian Grebe, Brogborough Lake, 22nd January 2016 by Lol Carman

Shag

Shag, Brogborough Lake, 16th January 2016 by Lol Carman

Scaup type

Scaup type (possible hybrid Scaup x Tufted Duck), Brogborough Lake, 4th March 2015

Long-tailed Duck

Long-tailed Duck, Brogborough Lake, 24th December 2014 by Martin Palmer

Red-breasted Merganser

Martin Palmer found this at Brogborough last week.  Nice!

Ferruginous Duck

Ferruginous Duck, Brogborough Lake, 11th November 2014 by Martin Palmer.

Barry's Bonxie!

Nearly a county tick for Steve and I, had one not flown over the car as we drove to see this bird.

Great Skua

Great Skua, Brogborough Lake, 14th October 2014 by Martin Palmer

Common Scoter

Immature drake Common Scoter, Brogborough Lake, 2nd January 2014

Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern , Brogborough Lake, 12th October 2013

Slav Grebes

Slavonian Grebes, Brogborough Lake, 14th April 2013

Broggy

Hybrid Tufted x Pochard

Two drake Scaup

Slavonian Grebe

Lots of birds on Brogborough Lake at the moment, including over 1220 Tufted Ducks, and almost 300 Pochards.  Amongst the throng are a Slavonian Grebe, two drake Scaup, and at least two hybrid Tufted x Pochards.

Black-necked Grebes at Brogborough

Two Black-necked Grebes at Brogborough Lake, 20th October 2012.