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


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Species shown in red on this page are BBRC rarities or species recorded on less than ten occasions in the county and those in blue are county rarities (generally between 10 and 50 records since 1941). Visit the 'LROS News' page - updated with photos from the Rutland Water Birdfair book launch, 22nd August

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.

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.