I went to Rutland Water first
today and it was much colder particularly in the northwest wind. I walked to shoveler hide on lagoon three
where I found a red-headed Smew against the reeds on the far side. There were hundreds of Lapwing in flight and
very high and I suspected that there was, or had been, a Peregrine about. I eventually found a Green Sandpiper and
Redshank and five Snipe dropped in. The
Teal in particular appeared very restless and were flying around quite a
lot. Eventually the Peregrine flew over
the lagoon, swooping low, but failing to catch anything.
Peregrine over lagoon three
I then walked onto lapwing hide
but other than a couple of Little Egrets and five Goosanders there was little
else. On the way back I called a smew
hide and a couple of views of a female Kingfisher and a single Snipe flew over.
Male Goosander
Female Goosander
Kingfisher
A second visit to shoveler
hide produced further views of the Smew and a Sparrowhawk.
There appeared to be quite a
few more Fieldfare and Redwing around today in the meadows and I saw quite a
few during my time travelling.
I called briefly at Eye Brook
Reservoir where I saw twelve Siskin and four Lesser Redpoll and two distant
Buzzards.
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