We spent the day at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Barnes reserve today, along with some people from the London Wetland Centre and London Flickr Meetups Flickr groups. It was good to meet Helen again, and to meet Laurence for the first time.

There were an amazing number of cormorants, many youngsters, and herons gathered together in the middle of the main lake, lots of teal, tufties, gadwall, shovelers, a few redshank and a couple of dunlin, 3 or 4 great crested grebe.

The highlight for me was to get some good close views of little grebes in pairs trilling to each other, I’ve never heard their song before. Also, I saw my first woodcock, thanks to a kind fellow birder who helped point my scope in the right direction.