Last update: Thursday
29th July 2010 at 21:10

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less than ten occasions in the county and those in blue
are county rarities (generally between 10 and 50 records
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It has been brought to my attention that there have been
problems with the Fatbirder Top 500 counter which until
yesterday was at the bottom of this page. This had apparently
been infected with a password-gathering trojan, and as
a result some computers may have been infected. NB this
applied to ALL websites using the counter, not just the
LROS site. Although the problem is said to have been fixed
now, I have removed the counter as a precaution against
any future problems. This should serve as a reminder,
if one was needed, to make sure your antivirus software
is always kept up to date, and also to use the latest
versions of whichever browser you use (Firefox and Google
Chrome are generally considered to be less prone to security
holes than Internet Explorer). As a further precaution,
I would advise anyone who has visited any site with the
Fatbirder counter on to run a full virus scan before logging
on to e.g. Internet banking.
A reminder to everyone to please read the Guidelines
page before sending in bird news. The Latest Bird News
page and Twitter feed are intended to alert birders to
scarcer species that they might be interested in seeing.
Records of common species, birds in gardens etc should
be submitted via LROS Recorder or paper record slips (see
the Bird Recording page
for details), and are summarised in the monthly Field
Notes in The Grebe.
Photo
Gallery updated 30th December 2009.
Listing page updated 4th June
2010.
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JULY
Thursday 29th
Lockington GP: Yellow-legged
Gull & 2 Little Egrets.
Albert Village Lake/Tip: 5 Yellow-legged
Gulls.
Wednesday 28th
Rutland Water: drake Common
Scoter, North Arm; Whimbrel &
4 Greenshanks, South Arm 3.
Measham: Grasshopper Warbler
singing at Five Ways Wood
Tuesday 27th
Shawell GP: 4 Yellow-legged
Gulls & 2 Common Sandpipers.
Eyebrook Res: 2 Common Sandpipers
& 3 Little Egrets.
Cossington Meadows: Black-tailed
Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 6+ Green
Sandpipers & 2 Little Egrets.
Monday 26th
Rutland Water: Sandwich Tern,
Spotted Redshank, Black Tern,
Little Gull & Common Sandpiper,
Lagoon 4; Green Sandpiper, Lagoon 3.
Cossington Meadows: Black-tailed
Godwit, 2 Common Sandpipers, 5 Green
Sandpipers, 6 LRPs, 4 Little
Egrets & 1 Hobby.
Eyebrook Res: 2 Dunlin
& 2 Little Egrets.
Sunday 25th
Rutland Water: Garganey
& Ruff, Lagoon 1; Black Tern,
Lagoon 3; Greenshank, 3 Dunlin
& 1 Ruff, Lagoon 4; 10+ Green Sandpipers
& 5+ Little Egrets around the reserve.
Cossington Meadows: 6 Green
Sandpipers.
Brascote Pits: 1 Common Sandpiper.
Saturday 24th
Leighfield: Whinchat
briefly.
Rutland Water: 6 Little Egrets,
2 Green Sandpipers & 2 LRPs,
Lagoon 3.
Friday 23rd
Misterton Marshes: Quail
singing early afternoon.
Fleckney: immature Marsh Harrier
over cut rape field south-west of the village at 09:00 (SP637924).
Eyebrook Res: Greenshank,
2 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Common Sandpipers
& 2 Little Egrets.
Thursday 22nd
Eyebrook Res: Black-tailed
Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green
Sandpipers, LRP, Ringed Plover
& Little Egret.
Leighfield: 1 Redstart.
Wednesday 21st
Cropston Res: Black-tailed
Godwit, 2 Dunlin, 2 Common
Sandpipers, Green Sandpiper, 5 LRPs
& colour-ringed Little Egret at the inflow.
Burley Wood: 12 Crossbills.
Tuesday 20th
Rutland Water: Black Tern,
North Arm; Little Gull, Greenshank
& 8 Black-tailed Godwits, Lagoon 4.
Cropston Res: 7 Common Sandpipers,
1 Dunlin & 5 LRPs at the
inflow.
Monday 19th
Bradgate Park: 13 Crossbills
flew across the park into Warren Hill Wood at c.13:00.
Cossington Meadows: juv Med
Gull, Tern Pool; Wood Sandpiper,
Upper Marsh; also 1 Common Sandpiper
& 4 Little Egrets.
Rutland Water: Sandwich Tern,
Lagoon 4.
Fosse Meadows: Grasshopper
Warbler singing this morning (please do not
enter the plantation).
Sunday 18th
Cossington Meadows: 5 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers & 2 Dunlins.
Friday 16th
Eyebrook Res: 1 Whimbrel, 1 Little Egret & 5 Black-tailed Godwits.
Wednesday 14th
Rutland Water: drake Common Scoter, 3 Greenshanks, 4 Ringed Plovers and 34 Little Ringed Plovers, North Arm; 16 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Ruff, 6 Dunlin, 1 Garganey, 1 Greenshank, 1st-summer Black Tern, 1st-summer Little Gull and 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls around the Egleton Reserve.
Tuesday 13th
Eyebrook Res: 1 Little Egret, 9 Dunlin, 3 Black-tailed Godwits & 1 Curlew.
Watermead CP Birstall: 2 Little Egrets.
Monday 12th
Rutland Water: 6 Little Egrets, North Arm.
Sunday 11th
Rutland Water: 2 adult Yellow-legged Gulls, Lagoon 4.
Friday 9th
Rutland Water: 1st-summer Black
Tern, Little Gull & 3rd-year Caspian
Gull, Lagoon 4; 12 Black-tailed Godwits
& adult Yellow-legged Gull, Manton Bay,
7 Black-tailed Godwits, Lagoon 1; 2 Greenshanks,
Lagoon 3; 16 Little Egrets, 8+ Green
Sandpipers & 8 Yellow-legged Gulls
around the reserve.
Cossington Meadows: 11 Black-tailed
Godwits & 4 Little Egrets, Upper
Marsh.
Tuesday 6th
Rutland Water: Black Tern,
1st-summer Caspian Gull & 6 Yellow-legged
Gulls, Lagoon 4; drake Common Scoter,
North Arm; 25 Black-tailed Godwits, Lagoon
1; 2 Green Sandpipers, Lagoon 3.
Sunday 4th
Rutland Water: Black Tern
& 1st-summer Little Gull, Lagoon 4.
Saturday 3rd
Rutland Water: 4 Black Terns,
1st-summer Little Gull & 4 Yellow-legged
Gulls, Lagoon 4; 11 Black-tailed Godwits
& 2 Ruff, Lagoon 1; 5 Green Sandpipers,
Lagoon 3/Crake hide + Little Egret, Lagoon
3.
Eyebrook Res: Little Egret
& Ruff.
Friday 2nd
Rutland Water: 1st-summer Little
Gull, Lagoon 4; Black-tailed Godwit,
Ruff & Little Egret, Lagoon
1; 5 Green Sandpipers, Crake hide.
Eyebrook Res: Black-tailed
Godwit, 2 Ruff & Little
Egret at the inflow.
Cossington Meadows: 3 Green
Sandpipers & 2 Little Egrets.
JUNE
Wednesday 30th
Rutland Water: 3 Black-tailed
Godwits & 4 Green Sandpipers,
Lagoon 3.
Sunday 27th
Eyebrook Res: 3 Black-tailed
Godwits & 1 Green Sandpiper at
the inflow.
Friday 25th
Eyebrook Res: 3 Black-tailed
Godwits at the inflow.
Rutland Water: Green Sandpipers
at Lagoon 3 (1) and Crake hide (2).
Thursday 24th
Eyebrook Res: Little Gull
& Black-tailed Godwit at the inflow.
Rutland Water: 1st-summer Little
Gull, North Arm; 3 Green Sandpipers,
Lagoon 3.
Tuesday 22nd
Eyebrook Res: Little Tern
& 6 Black-tailed Godwits at the inflow.
Rutland Water: 2 Black-tailed
Godwits & 1 Ruff, Lagoon 1; Little
Gull, Lagoon 4.
Also a male Red-backed
Shrike was apparently photographed somewhere
in the county yesterday, but was not present today. More details
to follow if we get them!
Monday 21st
Rutland Water: 2 Spoonbills,
North Arm this morning till 09:30 when they flew off north.
Sunday 20th
Eyebrook Res: no sign of Spotted Redshanks;
5 Black-tailed Godwits & 1st-summer Little
Gull still.
Rutland Water: 1st-summer Little
Gull still on Lagoon 4; 29 Black-tailed Godwits,
Lagoon 1.
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