Pittswood Birds

I decided that this morning I would only briefly visit the Greenhouse Grounds and Migrant alley, then move on to Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, there I would hope to photograph the Kingfishers  :-)

In the 90 minutes I spent visiting my patch early on, I did encounter some of those more exciting passage migrant Species that are at the top of the agenda at this time of year. A WHEATEAR was sat up on one of the Greenhouse rooves, as was a YELLOW WAGTAIL, of which another 5 flew over the sheep pasture at Migrant Alley.

At least three CHIFFCHAFFS were in the scrubby areas of the Greenhouse Grounds, along with at least 2 WHITETHROATS and 2 BLACKCAPS. A SPARROWHAWK made its almost daily rounds, putting up the SWALLOWS and HOUSE MARTINS, of which their were barely 50 this morning, 2 KESTRELS sat perched on the raspberry support poles, not moving all the time I was there.

Not a bad short visit, tomorrow, being the last day of August i'll do a full patch walk, I may just get another new species for the month  :-)

Chiffchaff

ROBIN

Yellow wagtail (immature) on the greenhouse roof

By 10:30hrs I was sitting in the Willow Hide at Sevenoaks Wildlife reserve, waiting for a kingfisher to place itself on the provided perches. In all I was there for almost 3 hours, but I did finally get my Kingfisher photo's, as well as some of the Little Egret and Grey Heron that were there. A bit of a bonus for the visit was meeting Greenie, from greenie in the wild fame, he joined me in the hide and we clicked away together, getting some nice photo's, good to meet up with you again Greenie :-)

Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Little Egret

Grey Heron