With reports of three Spotted
Redshanks at Eye Brook Reservoir Dave and I decided to go over and have a look.
On arrival all we could find
were two juvenile Redshanks and despite an extensive search we couldn’t find
any Spotted Redshanks. We did also find
three Ruff, five Snipe, a Common Sandpiper and three Green Sandpipers. There were also five Little Egrets a single
Pintail and a single adult Yellow-legged Gull.
Satisfied we had explored Eye
Brook Reservoir enough we moved off to the Egleton Reserve at Rutland
Water. On checking the book we found
that there was a Spotted Redshank on lagoon four so we set off to sandpiper
hide. On reaching the hide we found a
Little Ringed Plover, four Ruff and three Greenshanks but the Spotted Redshank
was eluding us. Dave suddenly spotted
the Spotted Redshank quite close to the hide but we only saw it fairly briefly
before it disappeared behind island ten, which is where it must have been
feeding all along. There were also seven
Little Egrets and three Pintail on the lagoon.
There were five Buzzard soaring to the left of Burley House and we saw a
couple of Osprey over the north arm,
There were seven Snipe, three
Black-tailed Godwits and four Redshanks close to shoveler hide and two Black
Terns were observed amongst the Common Terns feeding over the water. We had a quick look on lagoon one where we
located a couple of Snipe and three Green Sandpipers and another seven Little
Egrets.
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