Lifer 299! Howay the lads

A lovely weekend up at Phil & Jans cottage in Warkworth with the family - a lifer only 10 minutes down the road at a big reservoir at East Chevington. After a long walk and bumping into some fellow twitchers who kindly gave me a lift back to the original hide , one of them spotted a fine looking PACIFIC DIVER quite close to the edge!
It's supposed to be in Canada or the likes - and has been there a while. A mega ! That's #299

PACIFIC DIVER - A MEGA!!!

Clear sight of the white neck 

Great close views of this MEGA

A walk back to meet up with Anna & Harry on a lovely but windy day - we then had a fab dinner in Amble in a seafood joint - yum!!!

Also on the lake and surrounding sea were
LITTLE GREBE
GOOSANDER
GOLDENEYE

EIDER DUCK (AMBLE)
TURNSTONE
DUNLIN
LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL
LAPWING
STOCK DOVE

CURLEW (WARKWORTH)
37 waxwing were reported right where we walked - but I didn't see them!! Oh well can't have everything..