My first day back at the reservoirs after some warbler-related adventures in Senegal… feeling a bit chilly now! On Lisvane: a good count of 39 pochard, 32 tufties, 4 mallard, 10 little grebes, 1 GC grebe, 3 coots, 3 Canadas, and nothing unusual among the gulls.

On Llanishen, where the south pool is very full: 1F pochard (as far as I know this is the first pochard on Llanishen Res since the draining of the reservoir), a mind-boggling 17 coots, 1 moorhen, 13 mallard, 12 Canadas flew in, and 1 dead Canada floating in the south pool. Only 4 snipe and 5 teal visible from the fence, but as recent counts have revealed, there are undoubtedly many more hiding among the flooded vegetation.