Hilfield and Rutland

We got back to a sunny Hilfield, with several buzzards and stock doves around, along with all the usual smaller species. On the 19th of August, we went up to Rutland bird fair. After spending hours walking around the superb fair, getting ideas for future holidays and also buying myself a Zeiss spotting scope, we had a quick look on the water. There were a good number of waterfowl, with pochard, wigeon, teal, shoveler, gadwall and tufted duck the species of interest. There were also large numbers of common terns, buts sadly no sign of the black tern that had been seen earlier in the week.