{"id":28009,"date":"2020-09-01T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=28009"},"modified":"2021-01-05T09:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T09:33:52","slug":"a-trip-to-rutland-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/a-trip-to-rutland-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to Rutland Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A leisurely walk today around the Egleton Reserve at Rutland Water was a welcoming change from my local patch. Just a few more birds to look at here! <\/p>\n

Great White Egrets were everywhere and I must have had a minimum of 11 birds, along with a minimum of 20 Little Egret and a Spoonbill. A female Pintail and 2 Red-crested Pochard were best of the ducks. A Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin and a Ringed Plover were best of the waders. Still 5 juvenile Shag from last weeks gales were on rocks at the Dam Wall. A female Pintail, 6 Common Tern and hundreds of Cormorant on Lagoon 1.<\/p>\n

Lots of Migrant Hawkers  and Common Darters, with a single female Southern Hawker, on the wing in the very warm sunshine.<\/p>\n

Not the best of weather for photography, with most birds distant, so a few record shots to remember the day.<\/p>\n

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Great White Egret – a regular species at Rutland Water these days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Migrant Hawker – a mature male<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Southern Hawker – a mature female<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wood Sandpiper – a year tick and bird of the day for me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shag – juveniles – remnants from last weeks gales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shag – one of the five that were on the rocks by the dam wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red-crested Pochard – an eclipse drake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mute Swan – proudly showing off their offspring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A leisurely walk today around the Egleton Reserve at Rutland Water was a welcoming change from my local patch. Just a few more birds to look at here!  Great White Egrets were everywhere and I must have had a minimum of 11 birds, along with a minimum of 20 Little Egret and a Spoonbill. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[658,18,657,656,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-658","category-birds","category-birdsof2020","category-trips","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}