Visit to Rutland Water Nature Reserve 28th March 2013
After we left Lakenheath Fen we drove up to the Midlands where we stayed at the Barnsdale Lodge Hotel, a very comfortable hotel that we had stayed at previously. It is a bit pricey normally but they do good offers for some dates and we took advantage of this to break up our journey back to Manchester a little bit. We chose it for its close proximity to Rutland Water Nature Reserve where we hoped to see the female Osprey that has arrived back first from Africa and is already checking its nest out. We wondered if, with only a few hours available to us, we would get lucky and see the bird? Continue reading