Description
On a ridge above the Thames Marshes, Northward Hill nature reserve offers miles of trails, marshes and hayfields, bustling with birds. Northward Hill is a working farm, with grazing cows and sheep. In summer, there’s plenty of wildlife to enjoy in the day and evening, including butterflies and dragonflies, bats and moths. The scrubland is rich in slávik obyčajný and penica obyčajná. You can see birds of prey like kaňa močiarna and sokol lastovičiar that hunt dragonflies over the marsh. šabliarka modronohá nest on reservoir islands. In winter, large numbers wildfowl gather on marshland floods and there is a huge roost of havran čierny and kavka tmavá at dusk. 4,000 havran čierny look spectacular as they prepare to roost in wood. Wintering thrushes, finches and buntings gather in scrub. drozd červenkavý and drozd čvíkota can be seen in the orchards below wood. You could also encounter a myšiarka močiarna.
Details
Access
Leave M2 at junction 1 and join the A228, signposted Grain. Turn left off A228 for High Halstow. In the village turn left onto Cooling Road towards Cooling. After approximately 1 mile, the reserve is signposted as a right turn.


