Dave and I visited Rutland
Water as there had Whooper Swan and both Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in
the north arm yesterday.
When we arrived at the
fisherman’s car park the water was quite choppy and it was difficult to find
birds on the water and all we saw were a few Goldeneye and Great Crested Grebes
and an Oystercatcher on the south shore.
From the end of the Reserve Manager’s road we had no better luck with
the grebes but we did find another two Oystercatcher, six Ringed Plovers, nine
Dunlin and a Redshank. There were only
five Barnacle Geese present and two would have appeared to have gone.
A Red Kite was observed over
Egleton village as we driving to the centre.
At the Bird Watching Centre we
signed in and then looked over lagoon one for a while where we fund a male
Smew, a male Goosander, four Little Egrets and a Curlew flew in during the end
of our stay and there were twenty-one Shelduck with another two on lagoon two.
As both grebes had been seen
during the morning both in the fishponds and the north arm we decided to give
them another go but with no further luck.
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