2 Divers at Lake Lothing

On Saturday 26th November I parked at the south end of Normanston Park and walked over to Lake Lothing, seeing a Kingfisher fly by, 2 Little Grebes seen too. Initially there was no sign of the GND, I bumped into Roger but a tweet from Andrew E from the Cruising Club and we saw the fine Great Northern Diver swimming left along the channel fairly close in but right up against the sun, light was a serious problem here for photos. The bird very slowly swam left/ north and I managed to get onto the concrete jetty, a good vantage point for photography & the light improved but only when the bird had swum further north & was much further away. It appeared quite sleepy and had its eyes closed on many occasions. Hopefully the bird was tired after a big of big meal of crabs and fish and is not ill. From the Cruising club, with Roger, we saw another Kingfisher speed by, we spotted the Red- throated Diver looking south and it was near the wooden wreck for a short while before swimming left and out of sight. James C arrived and we showed him where the RT Dibver had been seen and thought that the GND had swam east along Lake Lothing, little did we know it had doubled back and showed brilliantly briefly by the cruising club barely 20 minutes afater we had left following tweets from James W, that was hard to take, but this sums up the year where I have struggled with bad luck with pics all year. At least I saw the GND. A return visit in the afternoon, in the hope of getting better pics proved fruitless as we didn't see the GND at all. A Little Egret seen briefly by the shoreline, where I joined Rob H and Justin L amongst thers. The Red- throated Diver was still around the wooden wreck this time asleep. Rob H and I enjoined a mini bit of vis mig migration with a sadly now rare sighting of a Lowestoft Mistle Thrush flying south overhead, we heard Grey Wagtail and also saw a pair of Pintail flying south, a male quickly followed by a female. Sadly, no further sighting of the GND this afternoon.