I decided to leave the camera in the bag unless a chance came a long and then I would use it, today was about seeing how many different species I could find.
Below is a list of the 56 species in order that I spotted them.
1. Robin
2. Fieldfare
3. Black Headed Gull
4. Jackdaw
5. Carrion Crow
6. Pied Wagtail
7. Wood Pigeon
8. Red Kite
9. Blackbird
10. Pheasant
11. Tree Creeper
12. Mallard
13. Blue Tit
14. Chaffinch
15. Dunnock
16. Great Tit
17. Willow Tit
18. Sparrow Hawk
19. Canada Goose
20. Greylag Goose
21. Teal
22. Coot
23. Lapwing
24. Cormorant
25. Moorhen
26. Shellduck
27. Great Spotted Woodpecker
28. Shoveller
29. Tufted Duck
30. Mute Swan
31. Goldfinch
32. Long Tailed Tit
33. Smew
34. Great White Egret
35. Pochard
36. Green Woodpecker
37. Gadwall
38. Great Crested Grebe.
39. Golden Eye
40. Grey Heron
41. Redshank
42. Egyptian Goose
43. Starling
44. Song Thrush
45. Red Wing
46. Magpie
47. Wigeon
48. Pintail
49. Kestrel
50. Curlew
51. Wren
52. Little Egret
53. Rook
54. Reed Bunting
55. Collard dove
56. Common Buzzard
I got lucky with the Smew as I saw the Great white egret land from a distance and headed round to a hide that I thought might give me a view. The Smew was around 100 yards from the bank usually anything less than the Hubble telescope and you can not see them.
Smew at Rutland Water.
The Egret was easy to find in the reed bed but after 30 minutes of waiting for a better shot I came to the conclusion that he was not going to move.
Its a record anyway
Great White Egret at Rutland Water.
Hopefully the weather will be as stated on the forecast for Tuesday and we will have some sun, must try and get the day of work and head out again.
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