The first report I saw of the Eleonora's was when Brian sent a text around 11am and that went on for a few hours each time an update came on bird guides.
Shall we go for it or not, will it stay, probably not. this went on until it got too much and we decide to give it a try, so just before 3 o'clock the three of us meet up & head off to Worth marsh in Kent.
The traffic heading over the Dartford crossing was very busy and the road's all the way were slow, but we got there around 5.20 pm with news that the Falcon was still around.
We drive down Jubilee road & see some of the Dungeness boys & they send us down an uneven dirt track to find a volunteer lady from the Sandwich RSPB group and a very pleasant
lady. she was doing a fantastic job of steering everyone into a large field to park.
Off now to find the bird. we follow the flow down a narrow track until we meet a group of birders all with cameras ready, but we are told to head a bit further down the track to be able to see the Eleonora's.
Down the track, we soon meet up with a group of about 60 birders and we are onto the bird to give us all another lifer. It is sitting on the outside of a tree to give us good scope views.
After a good time spent watching the Falcon & seeing it do a few short flights, we head off to Worth in the hope of getting a better view of the falcon.
It turns out to be a great decision when we find a small group of birders in a farmer's field.
On joining them we find the bird a lot closer sitting on a fence post and we get a bonus when we see 2 Hobbys sitting on the next two posts and on the telephone wires behind us a female Red-footed Falcon to give us a year tick to round off a good trip.
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| The Eleonora's Falcon |
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| The Eleonora's Falcon |
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