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March 2010 at 21:30
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MARCH
Friday 12th
Albert Village Lake: possible 2nd-winter
Mew Gull reported again at 14:00.
Eyebrook Res: juvenile Shag
on the tern raft briefly around 15:00; adult Kittiwake
dropped in for 5 minutes at 16:15; Slav and
Black-necked Grebes still from the hide, plus
2 Little Egrets.
Exton: male Black Redstart
still around Home Farm.
Cossington Meadows: 2 Little
Egrets.
Thursday 11th
Albert Village Lake: apparent 2nd-winter
Mew Gull again this afternoon.
Rutland Water: 2 Long-eared
Owls behind Fieldfare hide; male Brambling
at the Egleton Visitor Centre feeding station; Bittern,
Lagoon 3.
Anstey Brook: 2 Little Egrets
100 yards upstream of Anstey Mill.
Wednesday 10th
Swithland Res: drake Smew
still on the north side.
Tuesday 9th
Exton: Black Redstart
still at Home Farm.
Eyebrook Res: Slav
& Black-necked Grebes still from the hide.
Albert Village Lake: adult Med
Gull + 3rd-winter Caspian Gull.
Monday 8th
Cossington Meadows: Bittern
flew from reedbed at 11:30.
Rutland Water: male Brambling
by the feeders behind the Egleton visitor centre (also present
yesterday); Long-eared Owl still behind Fieldfare
hide; Jack Snipe in field by cycle track/South
Arm III; 2 Black-necked Grebes, Barnsdale Creek;
2 Smew, North Arm; 6 Scaup,
Normanton & 5 Scaup at the dam.
Birstall: Black Redstart
still in Bridge Green.
Exton: Black Redstart
still at Home Farm.
Swithland Res: drake Smew
still on the north side.
Burton Lazars: 2 Short-eared
Owls this evening.
Sunday 7th
Cossington Meadows: Jack Snipe
& Little Egret, Lower Marsh. Nearby, Jack
Snipe & redhead Smew on the Pec
Pit adjacent to Watermead CP North.
Eyebrook Res: Slav Grebe
still from the hide.
Exton/Tickencote: Little Egret
on stream by the trout farm.
Saturday 6th
Exton: Black Redstart
still at Home Farm.
Birstall: Black Redstart
still in Bridge Green.
Eyebrook Res: Slav Grebe
still from the hide.
Rutland Water: 2 Black-necked
Grebes off Barnsdale.
Late news for Thursday and Friday: at Albert
Village Lake, a 2nd-winter Common Gull considered
by the observer to show features of either the Russian race
heinei, or the American race/species brachyrhynchus
(Mew Gull).
Friday 5th
Swithland Res: 2 Whooper Swans
on the north side.
Eyebrook Res: Slav Grebe
still from the hide.
Rutland Water: Great Northern
Diver, North Arm; drake Smew &
9 Scaup, Normanton.
Thursday 4th
Cropston Res: 2 Whooper Swans.
Burton Lazars: 2 Short-eared
Owls from 16:30.
Swithland Res: drake Smew
still on the north side.
Wednesday 3rd
Exton: Black Redstart
still at Home Farm.
Birstall: Black Redstart
still in Bridge Green, but elusive.
Eyebrook Res: Slavonian Grebe
south of the island, also 1 Ringed Plover at
the inflow.
Burton Lazars: 2 Short-eared
Owls showing well by the flood relief at 17:00.
Tuesday 2nd
Rutland Water: Turnstone,
Lagoon 4; 11 Scaup & drake Smew,
Normanton Church.
Eyebrook Res: Slavonian
& Black-necked Grebes still south of the
island.
Cossington Meadows: 1 Short-eared
Owl.
Monday 1st
Exton: male Black Redstart
still at Home Farm.
Birstall: male Black Redstart
still in Bridge Green.
Rutland Water: Great Northern
Diver, North Arm; 3 Smew, Lagoon 3;
10 Scaup at the dam.
Wistow: Little Egret
on the River Sence near the church.
FEBRUARY
Sunday 28th
Eyebrook Res: Slavonian
& Black-necked Grebes still south of the
island.
Wistow: 1 Little Egret
on River Sence by Great Glen - Fleckney road.
Saturday 27th
Exton: male Black Redstart
still at Home Farm.
Eyebrook Res: Slavonian
& Black-necked Grebes still south of the
island, but no sign of Green-winged Teal, Pink-feet or White-fronts.
Rutland Water: 11 Scaup
between Normanton Church and the dam.
Friday 26th
Rutland Water: 2 Bitterns,
Lagoon 3; Long-eared Owl behind Fieldfare hide;
2 White-fronted Geese east of Manton village;
12 Smew & 9 Scaup around
the reservoir.
Burton Lazars: 2 Short-eared
Owls + male Merlin showing well near
the silt trap.
Swithland Res: drake Smew
still off the dam.
Newton Harcourt: 2 Little
Egrets by the River Sence, west of the village where
the Wigston to Fleckney road crosses the valley.
Thursday 25th
Exton: male Black Redstart
back at Home Farm this afternoon (last reported on 4th January!).
Eyebrook Res: drake Green-winged
Teal, Slavonian Grebe, Black-necked
Grebe, 2 White-fronted Geese &
2 Pink-footed Geese still.
Wednesday 24th
Shawell A5 Pool: 1st-winter Glaucous
Gull & 2nd-winter Med Gull this
morning.
Eyebrook Res: Green-winged
Teal, Slavonian & Black-necked
Grebes south of the island, also 2 White-fronted
& 2 Pink-footed Geese, but mobile.
Rutland Water: Great Northern
Diver, Barnsdale Creek; Short-eared Owl,
Lagoon 1; 11 Scaup off Normanton Church; 6+
Smew around the reservoir.
Albert Village Lake: 3 adult Caspian
Gulls.
Tuesday 23rd
Eyebrook Res: 68 Whooper Swans
from 07:20 till 09:40 when they flew off north. Slavonian
and Black-necked Grebes still; 2 White-fronted
& 2 Pink-footed Geese at the inflow, but
again no sign of the Green-winged Teal.
Shawell: adult & 3rd-winter Caspian
Gulls, adult Med Gull & adult
Yellow-legged Gull on the tip this morning.
Monday 22nd
Eyebrook Res: Slavonian
and Black-necked Grebes still south of the
island; 2 White-fronted & 2 Pink-footed
Geese at the inflow, but no sign of the Green-winged
Teal today.
Burton Lazars: 2 Short-eared
Owls again along Sawgate Road.
Swithland Res: drake Smew
still at the dam.
Sunday 21st
Cossington Meadows: 2+ Short-eared
Owls, Swan Meadow. Photographers (and everyone else)
- please STAY ON THE FOOTPATHS on this LRWT nature reserve.
Nearby, 2 redhead Smew still on the Pec Pit.
Eyebrook Res: Slavonian Grebe
still + White-fronted Goose.
Rutland Water: 4 Bitterns
roosted in the Lagoon 3 reedbed; 2 Long-eared Owls
still behind Fieldfare hide; Black-necked Grebe,
Barnsdale Creek; 18 Smew & 11 Scaup
around the reservoir.
Burton Lazars: 2 Short-eared
Owls over fields either side of Sawgate Road, c500m
east of the village. Park by the silt trap.
Shepshed: 1 Jack Snipe
again in the field by the M1 off Hathern Road.
Saturday 20th
Eyebrook Res: Slavonian Grebe
south of the island and Black-necked Grebe
off the Fishing Lodge, also drake Green-winged
Teal at the inflow.
Birstall: Black Redstart
again in Bridge Green on the Hallam Fields estate this morning.
Cossington Meadows: at least three,
probably four Short-eared Owls showing well
over Swan Meadow/Rectory Marsh from 15:55 onwards.
Albert Village Lake: 2nd-winter Glaucous
Gull, adult & 2nd-winter Caspian Gulls.
Rutland Water: Slavonian Grebe,
Black-necked Grebe & Great Northern
Diver, North Arm; 1 Long-eared Owl
behind Fieldfare hide; 7 Smew, Lagoon 3.
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