More egrets and return of some winter visitors

 Over the last couple of days I've seen Little Egrets at both Chatsworth and Ashford Lake, I think we will be seeing them as regularly as Grey Heron soon and perhaps breeding somewhere locally in the not too distant future.

Little Egret - upper with Black-headed Gull Chatsworth and with Eurasian Teal at Ashford Lake

The first winter visitors have started to appear, I had my first Redwing on 27 September on Beeley Moor and have seen several small flocks since. The first Brambling was also on Beeley Moor on 2nd October.

Pink-footed Geese have been seen most days but just one or two skeins most days.

An unexpected foreign bird was a Black-headed Gull bearing a Finnish ring photographed at Bakewell yesterday but I think it may have bee around a while. It will be interesting to see where and when it was rung.

Black-headed Gull with Finnish ring

Very quick response from Finland on the ring, it was ryng as a chick in June 2019. It's travelled 1600km form Pori on the Baltic coast to Bakewell.