I was back at Rutland Water
this morning to help with the wildfowl.
Whilst we were waiting for everyone to arrive I saw the drake Smew in
the fishponds. Erik and I then went to
the Old Hall to count south arm three.
We were quite exposed on the north shore and it wasn’t easy counting and
so we just counted the birds close to the
Old Hall and those on the far shore, which were mainly Coot. As it was so windy we went around to Lapwing
hide and completed the count in relative comfort. Erik picked up the Long-tailed Duck quite
some distance off, to the right of the island, and he also found a red-headed
Smew near the shore on Brown’s Island. I
did locate a Green Sandpiper on the same shore and we had our only Little Egret
from crake hide.
Chris Park had found a Great
Northern Diver in Whitwell Creek and then it or another in the bay east of the
Sailing Club and so Erik and I went to check out the one near the Sailing
Club. After parking up we walked along
the footpath to view the bay and I found the bird, a juvenile, after just a few
minutes, and it was still pretty close allowing good scope views. Another nice find was a Grey Wagtail along
the shore line.
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