Was going to have a walk around the sailing lake today,but it sounded like the battle of the Somme was taking place!!!! Never heard shooting like it.........so opted for the railway pit instead,only had the 400m lens as i wasnt expecting to try and get portrait shots,so all images are taken with that.Great Northern diver showing well at times,a Lesser Redpoll in amongst a flock of Goldfinch,female Stonechat along the ditch....also 7 Red-crested Pochard (5 males 2 females) on the small pit across the road from railway at the Gonalston end.Did find another casualty of the shooting on one of the islands!!!