I went to Eye Brook Reservoir
first this morning in the hope of seeing two Wood Sandpipers that had been
present fro a few days. I had a Red Kite
close to Blaston on route but otherwise the journey was quite uneventful.
I arrived at Eye Brook
Reservoir to find the road bridge closed and so I went to the corral, which had
been improved since my last visits by the introduction of some gravel and it
was easier to see over the fences.
I scanned the far shore and
found one of the Wood Sandpiper and a Common Sandpiper but the Wood Sandpiper
flew just after I had got the scope on it.
I re-found it closer to the road bridge where the second was also
present with a Ruff and a Snipe. With
the viewing restricted I called it a day and went to south arm three at Rutland
Water.
There were two Pintail, three
Ringed Plover and six Dunlin on the island and two Common Terns were feeding
over the south arm but there was little else of note.
I moved off to the north arm
where there were ten Barnacle Geese, which were obviously the regular wintering
party from who knows where. There was
also a single Bar-tailed Godwit on the north shore, which is a good bird here
and particularly so in the autumn. I
also found a single Common Sandpiper and another Common Tern over the
water. On the reserve I walked to
goldeneye hide on Lax Hill, calling at snipe, harrier, fieldfare and gadwall
hides on route but saw very little with a Snipe on the wet meadow being the highlight. After some lunch I walked to lapwing hide
where there were masses of duck, the best being a Pintail in flight. The Spotted Redshank was still present at
crake hide and there was also five Snipe and loads of Teal. A Sparrowhawk also put in an appearance,
setting on bush before being harassed by a Common Tern.
I found a Garganey on lagoon
three but there were no waders today and grass cutting on lagoon four ensured
there were hardly any birds at all.
Finally I called at redshank hide on lagoon two were there were another seven
Snipe and six Green Sandpipers just in front of the hide. There was also a Ruff and a Greenshank to the
right and two Hobbies flew over.
Little Egrets on lagoon one
Marsh Tit at the Egleton feeding station
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