I was out at Rutland Water
today as there was a meeting at lunch regarding the management of the lecture
theatres at the Birdfair, which starts tomorrow.
I went to lagoon four first as
there had been a Sanderling present yesterday but all I could find was an
Oystercatcher, four Little Ringed Plovers, eighteen Ringed Plovers, four
Dunlin, a Greenshank and a Redshank. There
was also a juvenile Shelduck, a Pintail and two Little Egrets.
From shoveler hide there was
another five Dunlin, a single Ruff, nine Snipe, five Green Sandpipers and a
Greenshank. There were fewer wildfowl on
the lagoon toady and nothing unusual other there was another Little Egret.
Dunlin on lagoon three
Crake hide produced two more
Little Egrets, five Snipe and two Green Sandpipers and a Kingfisher and from
lapwing hide two Green Sandpiper flew by with a third on Brown’s Island with
five Curlew. There was a lot of wildfowl
but most were some distant away and other than another five Little Egrets
nothing of note could be found.
Teal from crake hide
Green Sandpiper from crake hide
Green Sandpiper from crake hide
Snipe from crake hide
Juvenile Pied Wagtail from crake hide
From the Bird Watching Centre
it looked as though there had been some disturbance on lagoon one as most of
the wildfowl were right at the back of the lagoon with nothing on the closer islands. Birds did start to return to the islands and
I eventually fund another Green Sandpiper and seven Little Egrets.
During the morning I had three
sightings of Osprey with singles over lagoon three on two occasions and three
over south arm two/Manton Bay area and I also counted forty-seven Common
Tern. There were plenty of Sand Martin
over lagoons one and three and two Swift over lagoon three.
A Weasel ran across the road
between Great Glen and Kings Norton.
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