Arrived 10am at RSPB Fairburn Ings.

Positive IDs of Clydebirder, Bassist and Alanjns being flushed from the car park!

Fabulous day with bright sunshine.

Day list:
Tree Sparrow
Kingfisher
Bullfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Magpie
Wood Pigeon
Stock Dove
Crow
Meadow Pipit
Common Gull
Tufted Duck
Long-Tailed Tit
Shoveler Duck...

Spent a couple of hours visiting the main nature reserve at Rutland Water. Hides galore! Managed to visit over 10 of them.

A very good place to visit with birds-a-plenty.

No Ospreys although we heard they had been about two weeks ago.

Highlights included:

Kingfisher
Lapwing
Great-crested Grebe
Kestrel
Redshank
Green Sandpiper
Egret
Mute Swan
Grey Heron
Cormorant
Coot...

Well, we're finally coming up to the 26th September when I will be joining the others at Fairburn Ings near Leeds.

We're meeting in the car park at 10am in case you fancy popping over!

Identifying the birds will be easy with John at hand – it's how we will identify each other will be the issue!

On the way up we hope to take in a reserve or two in the Cambridgeshire area.

My intention is to try to Blog in using my iPhone, so watch this space and...

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This has been solved to some extent by adding in the Latest Active Threads setion on the Forum Home Page.

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