its all luck

the waders were absent at Chowder this afternoon but as I walked back to the car the sun broke through briefly so I took the camera to have a go at the late nesting Common Terns; while photographing them a caffuffle in the edge of the reeds revealed a Little Grebe in hot pursuit of a juvenile Black-necked Grebe 158! If the sun had not come out I would probably have missed this bird! the eclipse drake Red-crested Pochard was on the same pit and the two star birds were together for a while. Still missing silly birds like Ruff, Green Sand, Whinchat, Black and Arctic Terns though