On the final day of January I decided to use a couple of hours I had spare in an afternoon to pay a visit to a small nature reserve called 'Ripple' just off the A13 by Creekmouth situated within the industrial estate. Despite being worried that I might end up at some underground night club in East London (the name mainly) I found the entrance and wandered in.
My main reason for going was the Dartford Warbler seen a couple of days previously that I wanted to find... unfortunately there was none.
However, it was a lovely little area with a good amount of birdlife in there. Although nothing as astounding as a 'Darty', I saw: Robin, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker (a very large individual), Carrion Crow, a single Redwing, Great Tit, and House Sparrow.
Could be worth a look closer to migration time in order to try and catch a migrant or two!
Oh and I saw a couple of Rabbits and a young, very bedraggled Fox!
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