I went to Rutland Water this
morning as there was a Pectoral Sandpiper present from crake hide. I went straight to crake hide in pretty windy
conditions and found the juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper feeding alongside a Snipe
to the right of the hide. There were
plenty of wildfowl from lapwing hide but all I managed to pick out of note were
nine Pintail and a Yellow-legged Gull flew over.
There was a nice Black-tailed
Godwit feeding close to shoveler hide on lagoon three but little else of note
and lagoon four produced nineteen Egyptian Geese and four Pintail. Back at the centre I found three more
Black-tailed Godwits and a single Garganey, which is a good October bird in the
counties.
I made a very brief call at
Eye Brook Reservoir on route home where I counted twelve Pintail but little
else.
After I had left Rutland Water
there were six Gannets, an Arctic Skua and three Great Skuas observed and there
was also another Gannet at Eye Brook Reservoir.
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