Out and About.

Rutland is starting to pick up with the return of the first Tufted duck, Wigeon and Teal. Canadian geese numbers are also on the up along with Greylag.

Quite a few Snipe showing around the reserve, although quite distant at times.

A lone Greenshank has been present over the past couple of days moving between lagoon 2 and 3.

Plenty of Little egrets around along with a Great white egret from the wet meadow hide.

One thing that shocked me this week was stumbling into not 1 but 3 Hornets nests. One at Paxton pits the other two at Rutland, I have never seen hornets back in the north west.