I was at Rutland Water today
to ensure that the lecture marquees for Birdfair were operational. I had checked the sound and light systems in
marquees two and three but wasn’t able to do anything else until the laptops
arrived and so I visited the northern lagoons.
I heard a Chiffchaff and two
Treecreeper as I walked down to Sandpiper Hide on Lagoon Four and found David
in the hide when I arrived. There was a
Little Egret, four Ringed Plovers, four Dunlin, a Ruff, a Common Sandpiper,
three Yellow-legged Gulls and forty-three Common Terns on the lagoon. Scanning Burley Wood I picked up a Red Kite
but there was nothing else of note and I moved onto Shoveler Hide on Lagoon
Three.
David had seen a Black Tern
earlier and I soon found it feeding over the lagoon along with ten Common
Terns. There were two immature Shelduck
resting on the near island along with six Shoveler and good numbers of Gadwall
on the lagoon. To the right of the hide
there were five Little Egrets and a Great White Egret and I saw two Buzzards
and two Ospreys between the lagoon and Burley Wood.
I went to the Events Marquee
and met Chris and Mike and we then went and loaded the lecture slides for the
talks in the marquees and ensured that they and the projectors were functioning
correctly.
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