Call Noah, the floods have arrived!

Floods in May, I am dreaming?! I arrive home from work, ignore the waiting wife and children and head straight out to the floods. After all, I've seen the family hundreds of times before, whereas I have never seen floods in May in Cuddesdon. And could the habitat look any better? There are loafing flocks of Lesser Black-backed Gulls at the edges, while Yellow Wagtails zip past overhead:

And almost immediately something very unusual :

A pair of Gadwall shoot past, only the second Cuddesdon record after a small flock on some winter floods over a year ago. Then this floated past:

A bastard hybrid of Canada Goose and Greylag Goose. And who said local patch birding was a whole load of effort for no reward? There was little else of note, a few Mute Swan, 6 Tufted Duck and some more Gulls, but the potential is enormous. Little Egret? Common Tern? Species an arable patchworker can usually only dream about.

Nobody could say I didn't get stuck into the floods today...