Ashdown Forest has been in the spotlight of the birding world recently with a juvenile short-toed eagle having temporarily taken-up residence. Being something of specialist feeder from mainland Europe, it is presumably finding Ashdown’s heathland reptiles rather tasty!
Over the past week, there’s always a gaggle of twitchers on station at Gills Lap car park, high up on the Forest, glasses and ‘scopes trained on the valley to the east, for it appears to commute to feed between here and an area over to the south of Wych Cross.
I’m still to see it, though I’ve watched this specie in southern Spain…