St Helens Birds and Wildlife: Black-necked grebe @ Carr Mill Dam

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Black-necked grebe @ Carr Mill Dam

Thanks to info from Dave Owen and Colin McCooey (see his great Flickr feed http://www.flickr.com/photos/94251136@N06/ ) I was able to get there to photograph this wonderful juvenile black-necked grebe.

Also, present was this wigeon which is ringed ... cant quite make out the numbers but hopefully somebody can. They are quite scarce at the dam so I was pleased to find it feeding and resting amongst the canada geese.

Other birds of note included grey wagtail, kingfisher and a lone great black-backed gull looking quite menacing!

With these winds who knows what will turn up next .....?