23rd Sept Wednesday - Sunny intervals am, a brief cloud/shower as front past through them sunny pm, 20C

Willey; during the morning a Nuthatch in the Church lane hedge and Mistle Thrush in Church Yew tree.  Two Ravens over and a Red Kite.

Shawell Sandpit/Landfill area; evening

More ducks present with  36 Teal, two each of Wigeon and Gadwall, plus Tufties and Mallard.  Three Mute Swans.  Usual Little Gulls and Gulls.

56 Lapwings at the south pit.  The adult and juv Buzzard still around the spinney.

Ravens and other corvids and a Red Kite around the landfill area.

22nd Sept Tuesday - sunny until later afternoon, light SW, 25C

Willey; I noticed a Small Tortoiseshell on the ivy in the Church garden hedge mid-morning.  Very very few seen this year again.

Theddingworth; afternoon.

Butterflies in the walled garden area were four Small Coppers, a Clouded Yellow, a Small and Large White.

On the lake  (half dry) 22 Mallards and two Grey Wagtails.  Two Ravens over.

21st Sept Monday - very warm, 2C, light SW_W, Sunny

WIlley; several Red admirals spotted during the day.  A Red Kite over and Nuthatch calling 0)915.

Shawell Sandpit/Landfill; evening

A quick look, dusk is creeping ever earlier now!

A Great Spotted Woodpecker in road side trees.

A 1W Caspian and 2 1W Yellow-legged Gulls.  

Not so many ducks this evening, 10 Teal though.  c50 Greylags and c35 Canada Geese - hoping a PInk-footed will drop in locally now they are returning to Norfolk.

A Grey Heron (not often seen here).  A single Buzzard in the spinney trees.

20th Sept Sunday -

 Lilbourne Meadows; morning.

A feeding flock c40 Linnets near the Island pool.  On the pool only Canada and Greylag Geese and a Mallards. 

Four Meadow Pipits on the fencing and a few Skylarks on the rough meadows.

Four Greenfinch and several Goldfinches around the game cover corner.

Rutland Water; afternoon.

Caught up with the Lesser Yellowlegs which has been present a couple of days.  Other waders included Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Greenshank, Spotted Redshank, Ringed Plover, Snipe, Ruff and Green Sandpiper.  A single Common Tern.

A Hobby was hawking Dragonflies over lagoon 2.

Butterflies included a Clouded Yellow, Common Blue, Small White Red Admiral, Speckled Wood and a worn Brown Argus.

size compared to a Greenshank

19th Sept Saturday - cloudy until pm then sunny spells, breezy SW increasing blustery SW later, mild 22C

 Willey; first thing a Kite over Earls Furlong field and two Ravens over the Perkins long spinney area.

Shawell Sandpit/Landfill area; morning.

Now 12 Teal and seven Shovelers, both increasing slowly.  A Common  Sandpiper.

Five red Kites and 15 Ravens over the landfill area.

39 Lapwings at the south pit.

One Caspian Gull and 30 Great Black-backed Gull, plus the usual LBB and BH Gulls.

Stanford Reservoir; late afternoon.

Estimate 110 Shovelers from part count, a few Teal c10.

Four each Little Egrets and Grey Herons.

Spillway four Grey Wagtails.  Six Chiffchaffs around the pump house, plus other in waterside trees.

A Green Woodpecker. and single Swallow.

18th Sept Friday - sunny intervals, mod SW 19C, late afternoon/evening cold front passes, fresh-blustery SW, some light rain, feeling cool.

Lilbourne Meadows; morning.

Four Meadow Pipits and Skylark and Grey Heron on the meadows, Green Woodpecker heard.

Island pool, npoth9ng new.

Single Kestrel and Swallow.  Two Linnets and c10 Goldfinches around.

Bitteswell- Ash Tree Farm; afternoon.

Rather quiet bird-wise, a Buzzard over, Green Woodpecker on the wildflower meadow.

A Common Blue, two each of Red Admirals and Speckled Woods.

17th Sept Thursday - a little light rain early, then sunny intervals, mod W becoming fresher later, 19C

Frolesworth Manor Lake; morning. 

A walk around the lake area, Mute Swan family still, Tufted, Moorhens, Coots and two Great-crested Grebes.

Three Swallows over, c 20 Linnets on the game food area and a single Greenfinch in the hedge. 

Four+ Chiffchaffs.

Theddingworth, afternoon.

In a walled garden area, a Clouded Yellow, 2+ Common Blue and 3+ Small Coppers.