American Wigeon + Osprey at Rutland.

Off to Rutland on Saturday for the American Wigeon. On arrival we park the car & head off to Dunlin hide, it's a fair walk to the hide on a grey old day.The lagoon is full of Wigeon but we find it hard to pick out the Target bird,we spend over two hours before the bird swims out from the bank & after getting good scope views things get better when it swims down in front of us for great views of it.
While waiting for the Wigeon to show we were entertained by a single male Ospey that was busy building a nest ready for when he finds a mate from the 21 that are here.
There is an imbalance of more males then females of maybe 2 to 1 so he may have to wait a while for a mate.
2 Little ringed Plover drop onto a scrape to give us a year tick.
Before heading home we head to Kelham Bridge to try for a tick for me as I need Willow Tit that the boys got weeks ago, I was with them but ended up in the wrong place when they got there's.
Not a lot of time spent there but no luck this time.

The American Wigeon

Brian's Osprey photo