I went to see the Black Stork that has made it's way across east Kent and decided to stay for a while on land around Caple Fleet on the Isle of Sheppey. Although always distant for me and when in sight, I seemed to be always in the wrong place which made getting images extremely difficult. The Stork was seen in recently harvested cereal fields on several occasions but at a distance of at least half a mile away and a heat haze made even viewing the bird through my binoculars difficult. I did manage a few record shots of the bird as it alighted from a field and circled, going higher and higher before being lost to view behind a row of Beech trees towards the South Swale nature reserve.
Whilst sitting on a grass bank awaiting the arrival of the Stork, a large female Sparrowhawk landed in one of the recently cut cereal fields.
The only other images I managed from Sheppey was of several obliging Wheatear's on fencing down by the fleet.
This is my 3rd Black Stork seen in Kent, the other two being a visiting bird to a field in Wickhambreaux and another bird seen briefly on the Minster marshes.
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