Bough Beech & Sevenoaks

Cold and damp, but there was plenty to enjoy at BB & Sevenoaks last week.

Weather vane at Bough Beech

The Reservoir is quite full at present, which means many of the waterbirds are forced away from the causeway and therefore harder to see, but there were plenty of Cormorant, Mute Swan, Mallard, and Coot.

Pied Wagtail and Common Sandpiper made short appearances and a trio of Common Tern took turns in feeding, and resting.

Common Tern

An early highlight was a lovely cup of tea at BB Visitor Centre, and although the feeders were relatively quiet, it was great to watch birds feeding up before the next wave of rain rolled in.

Time to move to Sevenoaks for lunch and another case of "hide hopping".   Common Kingfisher flew past a couple of times, Ringed Plover chased around from one island to another, Egyptian Geese had young, but the highlight for me was seeing a Great Crested Grebe carrying a juvenile on its back.   The youngster mirrored its parent's pose perfectly.

Great Crested Grebe and young

After the rain there were slugs out in force on the paths, which needed to be avoided, black ones, brown ones and even a yellow/white one!



But you'll have to wait for the next post for those!