13th Feb - rain, wintry mix am too, mod NE, 4C

Another very wet and unpleasant days weather.

A single Red Kite over the Perkins fields/long spinner area at 0900h.

Checked Stanford Hall for White-fronts after lunch, only Canada Geese though. Popped in to Stanford reservoir to check the five drake Common Scoter reported by Chris, they were riding out the big waves in the centre of the res.

12th Feb - Cloudy, light N, 7C, drizzle and light rain pm.

Stanford Hall; afternoon.

21 Russian White-fronted Geese feeding on the parkland grass with Canada and Greylag Geese.

A Great Egret was near the main lake and an Oystercatcher near the small lake.

Lilbourne Meadows; afternoon.

A Curlew dropped in among the Lapwings on the field flood pools, however, something spooked the Wigeon and Lapwings and if flew off, hopefully not too fay ( M Alibone saw one here yesterday).

A Green Woodpecker called.  Quite a few Redwings and Fieldfares in the lane side hedge as I drove along the lane.

11th Feb - some showers, mostly cloudy, brief sunny interval late pm, light SW, 12C - but feeling cooler

Willey; a couple of Red Kites over mid-day.

10th Feb - cloudy, showers, light SW

Lilbourne Meadows; morning

A good count of 36 Gadwall on the field flood pools, otherwise the other current regulars were present in smaller numbers.

9th Feb - a few sunny intervals, mod SE, 9C

Welney WWT; afternoon

Washes fully flooded and Lady Fen area water-logged but held most birds.

c15 Cranes were mid-distance, great to see and hear them before they flew off.

Whooper Swans, Black-tailed Godwits, Marsh Harrier and Great Egret.  Thousands Lapwing and large Golden Plover flock.

8th Feb - mostly high cloud, except showers occasionally, light SE/S, 10C

Rutland Water; afternoon.

Checked out the dam area, generally quiet, however I did get some decent views of the Red-necked Grebe which has been present a couple of days.

I also checked out the North Arm, there was certainly a perception that wildfowl numbers were lower then normally expected for February.  Fortunately a Black-necked grebe was present, although mostly asleep!

Otherwise the usual expected birds were seen around the site.

7th Feb - light rain am un til, about m id-day, then a few short light showers pm, light SE, 10C

Lilbourne Meadows; afternoon.

I did pop down this morning, but the rain was miserable and on meeting Stuart, who had already had  a look around, he informed me there was not too much new about, except an Oystercatcher, so I decided to comeback straight after lunch.

I did find the Oystercatcher on the island pond with Lapwings. 70 Golden plovers were also in the area.  A Buzzard was around and a Kestrel hunting.

Around field flood pool I counted 48 Pied Wagtails.  Otherwise the other expected recently seen birtds.

Three Roe Deer feeding on the bank.

Stanford Res; afternoon.

When I arrived I could see there were some Geese on the water at the dam end.  On scanning through the Greylags and White-fronts I spotted four Tundra Bean Geese.   I got a couple of poor record digiscoped pics and then they were off.

Fortunately thy moved to the cereal field behind the dam area and I managed a few more pic before they walk over the brow out of view.