Rutland Water and Exton Park - 2/9

An early start at RW on lagoon 1 and the wet meadows led to an unexpected group of 4 Green Sandpipers close to Snipe hide. These migrants should be on their way to Africa by now ! Next, from Harrier hide I found 4 Snipe feeding on the muddy shoreline along with many gulls, Lapwing, etc. As I was returning to the car park another Kingfisher flew across in front of me heading towards the new lagoons. Given that I hadn't seen one for over a year I had now seen one on consecutive days - what a bizarre hobby birding is !!!! The South Arm III produced more of the same as yesterday including an impressive juvenile Osprey fishing out by the island. I now headed to Exton Park for a long walk and turned up a juvenile Spotted Flycatcher, an adult Hobby feeding over the cornfields, a pair of Jays and another Treecreeper, plus several families of Yellow Wagtails. Given the number of Treecreepers seen this month this species must have done very well this year !