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• Some images of the week.

                                                                                                                       Thanks to Daniel Lambe-Hyner for the images of Widgeon on the reserve plus Common Buzzard and Kestrel.

  Posted 03 Feb 2019 by Dr Hoo

• This weeks Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS count)

  The following birds were counted on the day here at Northward Hill RSPB Reserve:- A Bewick's Swan, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Buzzards, 125 Coot, 2 Cormorant, 7 Curlew, 15 Gadwall, 1 Green Sandpiper, 10 Grey Heron, 5 Greylag Geese, 2 Mallard, 20...

  Posted 24 Jan 2019 by Dr Hoo

• First week of a new year

  Today was a beautifully sunny, but cold morning on the reserve here at RSBP Northward Hill and the real start back this week for most. Christmas and New Year are over for another year and the kids are back at school. There are plenty of thing to...

  Posted 04 Jan 2019 by Dr Hoo

• The Owls of the North Kent Marshes.

  It has long been an ambition to see (or hear) all five species of Owl on the North Kent Marshes in a day. Today I was not too far off achieving that! I went to Bromhey Farm about 4pm to see if I was required to lock the Cliffe Pools car park gate ...

  Posted 05 Nov 2018 by Dr Hoo

• Final final plastic clean-up at Cliffe on the North Kent Marshes.

  A week or so ago it ocurred to me that the skip we nearly filled up on the 20th of October Clean-up still had room for a few more bags of plastic and having looked at the foreshore on the northern most tip of Cliffe Creek, there were still quite a...

  Posted 02 Nov 2018 by Dr Hoo

• Red list and yellow butterflies.

  Still plenty of the ever beautiful Clouded Yellow butterflies around at Cliffe Pools RSPB, mainly along the seawall skirting the River Thames, witness this (abeit slightly out of focus) photo taken yesterday the 26th of October. The clouded yellow...

  Posted 28 Oct 2018 by Dr Hoo