Tuesday 6 February 2018

Nice first visit to Sevenoaks wildlife reserve.

Jimmy & I head off to Sevenoaks in Kent where a Black-necked Grebe has been seen for nearly a month now.
We are paying our first visit here & we find it to be a very nice reserve indeed,the Grebe has been seen mostly on east lake & that is where we start our search,it is quite busy with loads of Lapwings & Teal along with many Great-crested Grebe, a large flock of over 30 Greylag Geese fly in but we see no sign of the Grebe.
So we head round & go in a couple of hides still with no luck, we then try Tower hide & it's only minutes before we have another year tick as the Grebe swims about around one of the islands to our right.A walk along the river bank where we see a Sparrowhawk perched in a tree & on a closer look we find another one sitting a few feet away.
Walking around the paths we see over 20 Siskin plus flocks of Long-tailed Tits the odd Song Thrush but despite a fellow birder telling us he had just seen 2 Bullfinch we never found them.
A really nice morning at a lovely reserve gets us only one year tick but well worth the visit.
                                                         
                                                                 
The first Sparrowhawk
Same one
The second Hawk just above the other one
Map of the reserve
Visitor centre
Tower hide Grebe seen from here
Black-necked Grebe

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