The day started early at Rutland Water, on arrival we headed straight out to the Bittern Hide, it was now 8:15am, on entering the hide we found out that the Savi’s Warbler had been showing well, we settled in.We waited four hours, the Savi’s was not playing ball, it was heard ‘Reeling’ a few times in those fours hours, those that did get a view was very, very brief.
In those four hours there were other birds to see, Osprey gave good views has they came by, two birds on occasion, we had excellent views of Cuckoo, coming in close to the hide, Marsh Harrier came by on a couple of occasion, there was a a Reed Warbler continually calling next to the hide for all of those four hours. Other highlights too and from the hide were Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, Common Tern, Swift and Sand Martin.
The plan was to see the Savi’s Warbler, then travel to the Great Reed Warbler site then on to the American Golden Plover. Getting back to the car, I decided on a toilet stop before travelling onwards, on arrival back at the car, then my colleague broke the news of a MEGA in Whitburn, an Indigo Bunting, a three and a half hours travel away, North, he needed it for is UK list, it would be a lifer for me.
It was thanks to a person in the area, that people got to see this bird as it was first ID on their bird feeders. They let lots of people into their house to be able to view this visitor, we didn’t see it from here but had views from other gardens nearby.
It wasn’t an exciting day, but there was a lifer at the end of, alas no pictures.
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