I went to Newton Harcourt
Church first thing this morning where I had a single Nuthatch, a couple of
Goldfinch and a Coal Tit before visiting Rutland Water.
At Rutland Water I visited
Normanton first but there was no sign of any Mandarin and nothing else. The dam produced a sub-adult Yellow-legged
Gull but nothing else of note and so I went to the north arm.
There were numerous wildfowl
in the north arm, mainly Wigeon but I also found an adult and juvenile Whooper
Swan and ten Pintail and the ten Barnacle Geese were in the normal area on the
north shore. A Peregrine flew over causing
very little disturbance and four Red Kite and a couple of Buzzard were observed
over Burley Wood. A Great Spotted
Woodpecker was also observed in a dead tree.
Despite an extensive search I couldn’t find the three Black-necked
Grebes that were present yesterday, although they could possibly have been
amongst the raft of ducks on the north shore.
I went to shoveler hide on
lagoon three on the Egleton reserve where I spent the rest of the day in the
hope the Bittern would oblige again today.
It was very quiet but I did find two male and a female Scaup amongst the
raft of Tufted Ducks and I counted fifteen Pintail, although these kept coming
and going. A Buzzard was observed on the
wood to the north and a Jay was seen briefly at the far end of the lagoon. The only waders present were a few Lapwing
and a single Redshank despite the water level being good, although I did have a
brief view of a Water Rail. A
Sparrowhawk made a brief appearance as it circled over lagoon two as did the
Bittern but as seems usual this month both Ken and I missed it again.
Little Egret on lagoon three
Little Egret on lagoon three
Little Egret on lagoon three
Little Egret on lagoon three
Little Egret on lagoon three
Little Egret on lagoon three
Gadwall over lagoon three
Female Pintail over lagoon three
Adult winter Common Gull over lagoon three
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