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⚫May
Sunday - 31/05/26
Little Stint - Rutland Water NR - 1 still at Lagoon 4.
Saturday - 30/05/26
Little Stint - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 4 from Plover Hide.
Friday - 29/05/26
🟣Car Trips Sanderling - Rutland Water NR - 3 at Lagoon 4 from Plover Hide also Lesser Whitethroat near bug hotel & Garden Warbler in same area.
1505 - Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Manton Bay.
Hoopoe - Eyebrook Reservoir - over towards Stoke Dry cp but no sign since.
Thursday - 28/05/26
Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - still at Lagoon 4.
1018 - Osprey - Staunton Harold Reservoir - ad fishing.
Wednesday - 27/05/26
1454 - Black Tern - Eyebrook Reservoir - 2 S of the island.
Monday - 25/05/26
☹️ Kentish Plover - Rutland Water NR - no sign of the male this morning.
Common Scoter - Shawell - female at Shawell Sand Pit.
0757 - Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - again at Lagoon 4.
Sanderling - Rutland Water NR - 5 at Lagoon 4 from Plover Hide.
Sunday - 24/05/26
Garganey - Stanford Reservoir (po) - drk *1423 at the dam
Kentish Plover (4th day) - Rutland Water NR - male still at Lagoon 4 from Dunlin Hide also 2 Sanderling *1053
Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 1 in South Arm from Goldeneye Hide.
Saturday - 23/05/26
Kentish Plover - Rutland Water NR - male still on island 5 at Lagoon 4 from Plover Hide *1750 from Dunlin Hide
Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - still at Lagoon 4 also Ruddy Turnstone.
Friday - 22/05/26
Kentish Plover - Rutland Water NR - male still on island 5 at Lagoon 4 from Plover Hide *0836 with Ringed Plover . *1130 . *1442 . *1545
Sanderling - Rutland Water NR - 3 at Lagoon 4 on island 5.
Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - still at Lagoon 4 also Sanderling still.
Thursday - 21/05/26
🟠 1524 - Kentish Plover - Rutland Water NR - male at Lagoon 4 for third day *1613 from Plover Hide . *1711 . *1934
1455 - Garganey - Rutland Water NR - drk still at Lagoon 4.
1015 - Arctic Tern - Rutland Water NR - still , from Waderscrape Hide.
0832 - Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - still at Lagoon 4 also Sanderling.
Wednesday - 20/05/26
🟡BTO Walks Hobby - Rutland Water NR - also Garden Warbler, Arctic Tern & Glossy Ibis.
0610 - Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - still on island 9 at Lagoon 4 *1115 from Plover Hide . *1330 . *2000
1020 - Garganey - Rutland Water NR - drk still on island 2 at Lagoon 4.
Sanderling - Rutland Water NR - 1 still at Lagoon 4.
Tuesday - 19/05/26
1545 - Arctic Tern - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 4.
Garganey - Rutland Water NR - 2 inc a drk still at Lagoon 4.
Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - still at Lagoon 4 also 4 Sanderling.
Monday - 18/05/26
® Caspian Gull - Wanlip Meadows LRWT - 1s reported on Wanlip Scrape.
1441 - Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - again at Lagoon 1.
1330 - Sanderling - Rutland Water NR - 1 still at Lagoon 4.
☹️ 1045 - Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - flew off high over North Arm.
Garganey - Rutland Water NR - 2 inc a drk still at Lagoon 4.
Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - still at Lagoon 4.
Saturday - 16/05/26
Garganey - Rutland Water NR - 2 inc a drk at Lagoon 4 from Dunlin Hide *1311 from Plover Hide
Glossy Ibis - Rutland Water NR - 1 on Island 5 at Lagoon 4.
☹️ White-winged Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - no sign at Lagoon 4.
Friday - 15/05/26
White-winged Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 2 at Lagoon 4.
Thursday - 14/05/26
1117 - Grey Plover - Rutland Water NR - 1 still on island 5 at Lagoon 4.
Wednesday - 13/05/26
Sanderling - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 4.
Common Scoter - Swithland Reservoir - drk at N end.
Tuesday - 12/05/26
Grey Plover - Rutland Water NR - 2 at Lagoon 4.
Monday - 11/05/26
Grey Plover - Rutland Water NR - at least 1 still on Lagoon 4.
LN - 09/05/26 - (nocmig) Black-crowned Night Heron - Empingham - 1 sound recorded overhead early morning on Saturday.
Sunday - 10/05/26
Temminck's Stint - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 4 from Plover Hide also Ruddy Turnstone *1220
Grey Plover - Rutland Water NR - 3 on Lagoon 4.
Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 2 at Lagoon 8 also 2 Bar-tailed Godwit from Plover Hide.
Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 1 again at Lagoon 3 also Ruddy Turnstone.
Saturday - 09/05/26
White Stork (12th day) - Rutland Water NR - 1 in sheep field behind Waderscrape Hide *1316
1146 - Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 1 on Lagoon 3.
Caspian Gull - Albert Village - 1.
Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 1.
Whooper Swan - Eyebrook Reservoir - 1 on the island.
Grey Plover - Rutland Water NR - 1 on Lagoon 4 also 2 Bar-tailed Godwit.
Friday - 08/05/26
Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 2 still this afternoon.
Thursday - 07/05/26
Ferruginous x Common Pochard hybrid - Rutland Water NR - still at Egleton reserve.
White Stork - Rutland Water NR - blue-ringed individual still on Wet Meadow.
Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 8 also White Stork in Manton Bay.
Bar-tailed Godwit - Rutland Water NR - 2 still at Lagoon 4.
Wednesday - 06/05/26
Black Tern - Eyebrook Reservoir - 1 off Stoke Dry cp also at least 3 Arctic Tern.
☹️ Ring-necked Duck - Stanford Reservoir (po) - no sign this morning.
Tuesday - 05/05/26
Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 5.
Bar-tailed Godwit - Rutland Water NR - 3 at Lagoon 4.
Caspian Gull - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 4.
1251 - Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 1 still on island 8 at Lagoon 4 from Dunlin Hide.
Wood Sandpiper - Wanlip Meadows LRWT - 1 feeding in grassy fringe on N side of the scrape.
White Stork - Rutland Water NR - blue-ringed individual still on Wet Meadow.
Black Tern - Stanford Reservoir (po) - 1.
Ring-necked Duck (3rd day) - Stanford Reservoir (po) - drk still off the dam.
Monday - 04/05/26
☹️ Ring-necked Duck - Stanford Reservoir (po) - drk headed E.
White Stork - Rutland Water NR - blue-ringed individual still on Wet Meadow early this morning.
0815 - Kittiwake - Stanford Reservoir (po) - ad past E.
Kittiwake - Thornton Reservoir - 1 then headed N.
Ring-necked Duck - Stanford Reservoir (po) - drk still off the dam.
Sunday - 03/05/26
Ring-necked Duck - Stanford Reservoir (po) - drk off the dam *0833
Arctic Tern - Swithland Reservoir - 2 at N side.
Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 1 still at Lagoon 3.
Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 1 still at Lagoon 4 from Dunlin Hide.
White Stork - Rutland Water NR - blue-ringed individual still on Wet Meadow.
0849 - Arctic Tern - Stanford Reservoir (po) - 1.
Saturday - 02/05/26
Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 1 still at Lagoon 4 *1648 from Dunlin Hide
White Stork - Rutland Water NR - blue-ringed individual again in field by Egleton cp *1035 circled Lagoon 1 then headed E
1050 - Arctic Tern - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Lagoon 1.
LNY - 1900 - Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 2 still at Lagoon 1 yesterday.
LNY - 1730 - Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 1 at Wet Meadow from Harrier Hide yesterday.
Friday - 01/05/26
Black Tern - Rutland Water NR - 2 still at Lagoon 1 *1428
Black Tern - Eyebrook Reservoir - 8 at inflow at N end *1117 x8 still from Stoke Dry cp at w3w *1501 at least 1 still from island bunker also Grey Plover & Bar-tailed Godwit
® 1330 - White Stork - Rutland Water NR - blue-ringed individual reported again from Waderscrape Hide in Manton Bay.
Wood Sandpiper - Rutland Water NR - 4 at Lagoon 4 also 2 Bar-tailed Godwit over.
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