Birding can be like the game Snakes & Ladders some times , like today !
Andy Bond & myself went out to Roadford Reservoir in West Devon to see if we could see the Lesser Scaup & the American Wigeon .
We got the 1st Winter Drake LESSER SCAUP ok but after searching for the Wigeon in different places around the reservoir we just couldn`t find it ! only to find out later that it was there all the time .
We also saw a few GOLDENEYE & TUFTED DUCK , a Female RUDDY DUCK &
8 Female GOOSANDER .
We then had to stomach missing 2 more birds that we went for , the Great Grey Shrike on Woodbury Common & the Glaucous Gull at Budleigh Salterton , oh well there`s always tomorrow !!