Sevenoaks Nature Reserve with Dave

This morning i picked up Dave at 07.30 and went to Sevenoaks Nature Reserve for a llok at what was possibly about, we spent about 70 mins walking the left hand side of the reserve and had a very impressive 35 species which are as follows:

BLACKBIRD

BLACKCAP

BLUE TIT

CANADA GEESE

CHAFFINCH

CHIFFCHAFF

COOT

CORMORANT

DUNNOCK

EGYPTIAN GEESE

GARDEN WARBLER (HEARD ONLY)

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

GREAT TIT

GREYLAG GEESE

JACKDAW

LAPWING

LESSER WHITETHROAT

MAGPIE

MALLARD

MOORHEN

MUTE SWAN

REED WARBLER

RING NECKED PARAKEET

ROBIN

SAND MARTIN

SHELDUCK

SONG THRUSH

STARLING

SWALLOW

SWIFT

TUFTED DUCK

WHITETHROAT

WOODPIGEON

WREN

As you can see an impresive list for such a small amount of time

Dungeness RSPB

Mandy and I left at about 9.45 this morning and drove down to Dungeness for a spot of birding action, the sun was bright and warm although a light breeze was chilly.

We walked around the whole reserve in just over 2 hours and had a definate 24 species, this is excluding Gulls, they are a nightmare to me......

Our list of definates is below:

BLACKBIRD

BLUE TIT

CANADA GEESE

CARRION CROWS

CETTI'S WARBLER (HEARD ONLY)

CHAFFINCH

CHIFFCHAFF

COOTS

CORMORANTS (LOTS OF)

GREAT CRESTED GREBES

GREAT TIT

GREYLAG GEESE

LAPWINGS

LITTLE GREBE

MAGPIE

MARSH HARRIERS (PAIR)

MOORHEN

MUTE SWANS

OYSTERCATCHERS

PHEASANT (HEARD ONLY)

REED BUNTING

SHELDUCK

SHOVELOR

TUFTED DUCK

REED BUNTING

MUTE SWAN

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

MARSH HARRIER (MALE)

TUFTED DUCK

MARSH HARRIER (MALE)

LONG TIME NO BLOG!!!

I have not blogged since last october, so, I decided that today was a day to start again.

I picked up Andy and we took a drive to Sevenoaks Nature Reserve for a spot of birding, we spent about an hour and 45 mins there, walking around to all the hides, people were saying that the Bittern was still in residence along with a Goosander, we saw neither I'm afraid to say, although we did have 32 species!

They are as follows:

BLACKBIRD

BLACK HEADED GULL

BLUE TIT

CANADA GEESE

CARRION CROW

CHAFFINCH

COOT

CORMORANT

DUNNOCK

EGYPTIAN GEESE

GADWALL

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

GREAT TIT

GREYLAG GEESE

HERRING GULL

JAY

LAPWING

LITTLE EGRET

MAGPIE

MALLARD

MOORHEN

MUTE SWAN

PHEASANT

POCHARD

ROBIN

SHOVELER

SNIPE

TEAL

TUFTED DUCK

WOODPIGEON

WREN

The weather was awful so no photos i'm afraid

Bough Beech with Denis

This morning I drove to Bough Beech for a spot of birding with Denis, I did ask Dave but he was already out moling in Goudhurst. The water level at BB is well down at the moment and there appears to be a fence going up on the large side of the reservoir? Sheep were seen grazing where the water used to be and a couple of Deer were spotted drinking from the waters edge.

The days list is quite short as not much appeared to be about, what was is as follows:

GREY HERON

BLACK HEADED GULL

GREYLAG GEESE

CORMORANT

MALLARD

MAGPIE

TEAL

MOORHEN

PHEASANT

WOODPIGEON

CARRION CROW

CANADA GEESE

WIGEON

HERRING GULL

SNIPE

CHAFFINCH (HEARD ONLY)

GREEN WOODPECKER (HEARD ONLY)

ROBIN

BELOW ARE TWO PHOTOS SHOWING THE VERY LOW WATER LEVEL

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Sundays Blog on a Thursday!

Last Sunday I picked up Dave and drove to Sevenoaks Nature Reserve at around 7.30am, the weather was rather dismal but as we climbed higher towards Sevenoaks the cloud lifted and a glorious blue sky was in our view, lovely jubbly......

We was there for about 1 and a half hours approx and the list is as follows:

Coot

Pochard

Blackbird

Tufted Duck

Wood Pigeon

Chiffchaff

Blue Tit

Jay

Moorhen

Wren

Magpie

Mallard

Mute Swan

Canada Geese

Carrion Crow

Teal

Gadwall

Kingfisher

Grey Heron

Greylag Geese

Lapwing

Black Headed Gull

Chaffinch

Firecrest

Swallow

Sand Martin

Cormorant

Baby Pigeon (SQUAB) I believe they are called

Grey Heron

Fox just off centre right looking for its brekkie

Male Chaffinch

Denis's New Moth Trap 1st Outing (not good)

I think we are correct in our IDing, the top one we think is a Square Spot Rustic? and the lower one a Flounced Rustic?

Click on picture to enlarge.

Thanks for looking.