I was back at Rutland Water to
day to help with the WeBS count. Whilst
waiting for the counters to assemble there was a male and two female Goosanders
on the fish ponds and a Sparrowhawk flew over.
I was designated to count
south arm three and lagoon one and was joined by Mat. There was very little in south arm and
certainly nothing unusual, although we did hear a Chiffchaff singing but were
unable to locate it as it insisted in singing low down on the far side of a
hedge, as it presumably attempted to keep out of the wind.
Lagoon one provided seven
Pintail, an Oystercatcher, a Dunlin, three Curlews and a Redshank. Erik called to say that he had seen the Great
White Egret in Heron Bay and so having finished our count we set off towards
Heron Bay. As we started to walk down
towards the bay I noticed something white in the bushes on the edge of the bay
and suspected that it was the egret, which I was able to confirm with the aid of
the scope. We then went to harrier hide
seeing two male and three female Goosander on lagoon six but other then four
Shelduck on lagoon one we saw nothing else extra from harrier hide. Whilst in the hide Tim called to say that the
Woodlark was back in the meadow and so Mat went off to look for it has he had
not seen it yesterday. I called Erik
again to let him know about the lark and he informed that he had seen three
Green Sandpipers on lagoon seven and I decided to go and have a look for
them. I did manage to find one and also
saw a couple of Pintail, three Dunlin and a Redshank. I then called at Shelduck hide on lagoon five
and found four Dunlin and a Redshank, which I assumed would have been those
seen on lagoon seven.
Finally before going back to
the centre with the count numbers I called in Snipe hide to view the wet meadow
where there were fourteen Shelduck, three Pintail and a Little Egret.
I made my way back to the
centre to hand in the count figures but unfortunately I didn’t have time to go
and have another look at the Woodlark.
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