Wednesday 5th February 2014
Birding near Uckfield
On reading on the SOS website about a Little Owl sighting just down the road from Uckfield at Ringmer, Sue and I jumped in the car and made for the Potato Lane/Neaves Lane intersection to look for the bird in the derelict outbuildings. The weather today was atrocious so we grabbed our opportunity during a break in the downpour.
Unfortunately the bird was not there!
However as we were looking, Sue called to me and pointed out a Red Kite hunting over the fields behind us. For the next 20 minutes or so we got some stunning close up views of this majestic bird. It was still hunting when we left just before midday to go for lunch.
I have seen many Red Kites in Sussex but non so close to our home.
Wow!
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