I called at Eye Brook
Reservoir first this morning after a late start but it was very quiet with two
Pintail and a couple of Little Egrets being the best.
After some lunch at Rutland
Water I walked to lagoon three where there were six Pintail feeding with other
dabbling duck and a Sparrowhawk, Hobby and Grey Wagtail flew over.
A walk to crake hide produced
very little and two Little Egrets were the only bird of note but there were
masses of duck, mainly Tufted Duck, from lapwing hide.
Drake Teal moulting from eclipse plumage
Juvenile Grey Heron
We called at plover hide on
lagoon four were there were two Green Sandpipers and six Little Egrets. A large party of Egyptian Geese also flew in
and landed on one of the islands, although they were difficult to count as they
were tightly packed and quite mobile but there was close to eighty involved.
A visit to the north arm
produced two nice juvenile Grey Plovers and there were also ten Barnacle Geese
and a Pintail.
After dropping Ken back at the
Egleton car park I returned to the Old Hall but there were only four Ringed
Plovers present. However over a period
of time I began to find a few more and a party of waders dropped in, which
included Dunlin and a Little Stint. I
eventually finished with twenty-three Ringed Plovers, a juvenile Little Stint,
eleven Dunlin and a Redshank.
As the afternoon progressed
the gulls began to increase on the island and an Azorean Yellow-legged Gull was
picked out, looking very similar to the bird present on lagoon four last
autumn. What started off as being rather
day closed with a flourish of good birds.
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