British Garden Birds - LRWT Rutland Water

The reserve has 3 main lagoons, which have muddy banks, small islands and reed beds. The lagoons are bordered by willow scrub and parts of the reserve have meadows and hedgerows.

Rutland Water has an Osprey translocation programme which aims to restore Ospreys as a breeding species in central England.

I've only been twice to Rutland Water a couple of times. The first time it rained heavily and incessantly all day, the second time was for the bird fair (2005) and was a glorious day with some great birds, including Osprey and Turtle Dove.

What You Might See
Barnacle Goose Black-headed Gull Black-tailed Godwit Blackbird Blue Tit Buzzard Canada Goose Carrion Crow Chaffinch Collared Dove Common Gull Common Snipe Common Tern Coot Cormorant Curlew Dunlin Dunnock Egyptian Goose Gadwall Goldcrest Golden Plover Goldeneye Goldfinch Goosander Great Black-backed Gull Great Crested Grebe Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit	Green Sandpiper Green Woodpecker Greenfinch Greenshank Grey Heron Greylag Goose Herring Gull House Sparrow House Martin Jackdaw Kestrel Kingfisher Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Little Egret Long-tailed Tit Mallard Meadow Pipit Mistle Thrush Moorhen Mute Swan Osprey Pheasant Pied Wagtail Pintail Pochard Redshank Redwing Reed Bunting	Robin Rook Ruddy Duck Ruff Sedge Warbler Shelduck Shoveler Slavonian Grebe Snipe Song Thrush Sparrowhawk Starling Stock Dove Stonechat Swallow Tawny Owl Teal Tree Sparrow Treecreeper Tufted Duck Turtle Dove Water Rail Wigeon Willow Tit Willow Warbler Wood Pigeon Wren Yellow Wagtail