Back from my own summer wanderings to find some evidence at the reservoirs of migration / post-breeding dispersal just beginning: yesterday (1st) 1 greater black-backed gull, 8 BH gulls (7 ads with 1 juv), juv kingfisher and today 2 common sandpipers. Also good numbers of wildfowl building up, with 88 Canadas (plus the two Canada-greylag hybrids which often turn up here in late summer), 124 coots, 48 tufties, 4 pochards, 18 mallards (plus a farm duck), 2 mute swans, juv and adult moorhen, 2 gc grebes (nest building again!) and a little grebe. The water level has dropped over a foot in the last few weeks, leaving several coot nests stranded high and dry on the banks! Also of interest, the Llanishen silver jackdaw made a brief visit to the corvid roost.