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female smew
reed bunting
Saturday, 5 January 2019
NEW YEAR BIRDING
My first birding trip of the year was to Rutland water with my sister, during a visit to Cambridgeshire, . We arrived early on a cloudy but dry and still day. A reasonable number of species seen (50); highlights included marsh harrier and a jack snipe, which was only a few metres from one of the hides, but so cleverly camouflaged whilst resting, that you could only make it out with binoculars!! Also good to see a great white egret fly in and land right next to a little egret. Other species of note included smew, goldeneye and goosander. Regretfully we were not able to add four of the five grebe species on the reserve to our list, as they could only be seen through a telescope :( An interesting addition to our visit was watching an otter swimming around amongst a few swans on an area known as the Northern Arm.
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