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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 Bülbül and Akgerdanlı ötleğen. You can see birds of prey like Saz delicesi and Delice doğan that hunt dragonflies over the marsh. Kılıçgaga nest on reservoir islands. In winter, large numbers wildfowl gather on marshland floods and there is a huge roost of Ekin kargası and Küçük karga at dusk. 4,000 Ekin kargası look spectacular as they prepare to roost in wood. Wintering thrushes, finches and buntings gather in scrub. Kızıl ardıç and Tarla ardıcı can be seen in the orchards below wood. You could also encounter a Kır baykuşu.
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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.