Brookie's Diary
• Friday, August 15, 2008 - Rutland Water and The Birdfair
Once again down to Rutland Water for the birdfair stopping at our favourite B&B at Woodnewton, Bridge Cottage. Firstly on the Friday we stopped at Blatherwycke Lake. Here we saw Hobby, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, and Buzzard in the air along with Swallow and House Martins. Around the lake birds included Common Tern, Little Egret (2), Grey Heron and of course the usual Mallards, Mute Swans and Canada Geese. This lake is becoming a great place to stop off on our way to the B&B picking up a great array of birds.
We the turned around and headed back up the road to a new RSPB place we had seen on the way in at Finshade. Here we added Marsh Tit, Goldcrests, and Coal Tit to the growing list.
Saturday the 16th we spent at the birdfair looking at the usual photos, holidays we liked to go on, meet friends. I did buy a new book this time one on gulls. Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America by Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson, must have book on gulls. Also a new pair of binoculars, Minox 8 x 32 BL. These are a great pair of binoculars, they have great reviews and I am very happy with them.
On the way back from the fair we stopped off at Manton Bay to find Green Sandpiper, Comon Sandpiper, Dunlin, Curlew Sandpiper, Black Tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Ruff and Ringed Plover.
Back at the cottage I decided to have a sit by the river and play with the new bins seeing Red Kite overhead and Kingfisher and Mandarin Duck on the river. List for the weekend |
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