Just catching up on a recent visit to the rewilding project at Knepp. It’s less than an hour for home and we wanted to go back to see how the storcks were doing.
Knepp is one our favourite places to visit and is somewhere where you are always, always guaranteed to see something! We went for the storks, but saw so much more.
There’s been a new car park built since we last visited, complete with a new mobile cafe, so you can refresh and stock up before you head off on a walk. They’re also in the process of building a brand new cafe/restaurant and farm shop at this site. The plans do look very impressive, although I’m a little apprehensive about what the impact of attracting more visitors will have on the wildife. Lets see.
Just on the walk down from the car park to the trail (we chose the white trail this time, which takes you past most of the stork nesting sites), we saw an exsquisite Beautiful Damoiselle and then coming up to the farm buildings, there was sure enough our first siting of a stork’s nest, complete with two chicks visible. We saw a whole host of various butterflies, roe deer and a tamworth pig, with 4 piglets all feeding from the sow.
On the loop, we found more stork nests (even two in one tree), lots of roe deer and, for the first time in years, a slow worm, just wriggling it’s way along the path. Incredible.#
Knepp really does not dissapoint and I’m sure we’ll be back again soon.
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