Great Northern Diver @ Grafham water

Just popped down the road to Grafham to give the old bins a quick once over before i set off for Hong Kong on Tuesday, and hopefully chance upon one of the 2 diver species that have been seen over the last few days.
We had to walk a few hundred yards to where there were a few more birders on a headland of sorts and started scanning the open water. It wasn't long before we were rewarded we good views of one of the great northern divers about 100 yards off shore. More birders turned up and everybody started searching for the Black throated diver and in the mean time the g.n.diver slipped beneath the radar and possibly to the far shore and out of view.

Time ran out in the b.t.diver search as an appointment for lunch at Costa coffee crept nearer but on the walk back to the car we did get great views of a Black Necked Grebe loafing around with a few Gadwall quite close to the shore.

The other highlight was a Marsh tit that was flitting about in the bushes nearby where the diver search was taking place, this little chap was well cool, and i hardly ever see them so that was a nice bonus alternative to the usual blue and great varieties that is the norm.

Anyroad one life tick this week and hopefully many more once i get to H.K. Later this week fingers crossed!!!