After a morning at Finchingfield to see the Tour de France go through (during which time I saw my first House Martins of the trip), David and I spent the late afternoon and early evening of Monday July 7 at Lee Valley, including an hour at the Rye Meads RSPB reserve.
At Rye Meads we headed to the Gadwall and Tern Hides to see the pair of breeding Black-necked Grebes. This has been of much interest here, but these are the Eared Grebes of the Kachina Wetlands! We then walked down to the Warbler Hide at the end of the reserve, seeing nothing and then spent a few minutes waiting for the Common Kingfisher that eventually showed at the Kingfisher Hide. Sadly we were then told that the reserve was closed and we missed the 7 Green Sandpipers that we know just outside another of the hides!
We then headed to Lee Valley park, first to see the Egyptian Geese in with the Canada and Greylag Geese on the Goose Field and then to the Great Weir where a Little Egret was probably the best bird.
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| Egyptian Goose |
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| Canada Geese |
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