Rutland has been highlighted in a report about its birdlife.

The Daily Mail has picked out the county as among Britain's best, citing the osprey and other species.

The newspaper also cited a YouGov survey commissioned in January by the RSPB revealed 63 per cent of people said watching birds and hearing their song added to their enjoyment of life since the beginning of the pandemic.

In addition, more than half of those surveyed also believed lockdown has made them more aware of the nature around them.

The Daily Mail commented : "Rutland Water is a huge patch of open water that has the great benefit of being a day trip for an awful lot of England because it is geographically more or less bang in the middle.

"The ducks and geese are always about, and the place has one superstar species: ospreys (once extinct in Britain). They were reintroduced to Rutland more than 30 years ago and dive for fish in the most extravagant fashion. They arrived back in late March, coinciding nicely with the relaxing of restrictions."