I went to Eye Brook Reservoir
first today and found that the water was dropping quite nicely. As a result there were six Green Sandpipers
and a Redshank at the inlet. The pair of
Shelduck had two young today and a third adult was also present but other
wildfowl only included Mute Swan, a Greylag Goose, Teal and Mallard. There were at least nine Common Terns present
and just as I was about two leave a second-summer Yellow-legged Gull
arrived. The only bird of prey I saw was
a Buzzard perched in a tree in a field on the Leicestershire side.
I moved onto Rutland Water and
went to the Egleton car park and walked to shoveler hide on lagoon three where
I stayed for quite some time. There was
a superb summer plumage Black-tailed Godwit and I eventually located ten Green
Sandpipers. There was plenty of wildfowl
on the water, which included the two Shelduck with two young and a single
Shoveler but there was nothing else of note.
Like my last visit there were numerous Sand Martins over the water and
an Osprey paid a brief visit before disappearing over south arm three. Two Little Egrets were also observed and two
Sedge Warblers were heard and two Reed Warblers observed.
Black-tailed Godwit on lagoon three
Black-tailed Godwit on lagoon three
Black-tailed Godwit over lagoon three
Black-tailed Godwit over lagoon three
Black-tailed Godwit over lagoon three
Green Sandpiper on lagoon three
Green Sandpiper on lagoon three
Little Egret over lagoon three
Little Egret on lagoon three
Little Egret on lagoon three
I had met Bob in shoveler hide
and went with him to bittern hide but other than further views of the Hobby we
saw little else and moved to plover hide on lagoon four. The pair of Ringed Plover still had three
young and another was observed sitting on island ten. There was also another six Ringed Plovers further
away that included at least one juvenile and a tundra Ringed Plover, that were
clearly migrants. Two recently hatched
Common Terns were observed with the adults and a Little Ringed Plover was
observed giving a distraction display to a Ringed Plover before returning to a
nest between islands two and three. The
Little Ringed Plovers were seen to exchange positions on the nest. A Red Kite also flew over the lagoon and two
more were seen further away.
We called at sandpiper hide on
lagoon four were there was a first-winter Little Gull and we also found another
pair of Little Ringed Plover and a Ringed Plover with a second bird on a nest
on island ten. There were also at least
five Yellow-legged Gulls amongst the Great Black-backed Gulls on the lagoon and
three distant Buzzards were observed over Burley Wood.
We walked back to the car park
and after some lunch I returned to shoveler hide to find three first-summer
Little Gulls not too far away from the hide and was able to get some nice
photos of at least two of them. The
Black-tailed Godwit and several Green Sandpipers were still present and a
Yellow-legged Gull flew over.
First-summer Little Gull on lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull on lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull over lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull over lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull over lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull over lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull on lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull on lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull over lagoon three
First-summer Little Gull over lagoon three
Second-summer Yellow-legged Gull over lagoon three
I had a brief look, from the Bird Watching Centre, at lagoon one but other than three Little Egrets there was little else.
Male and female Pheasant from the Bird Watching Centre
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