Despite it being a grey cold day with road diversions to contend with, the majority of the group arrived at the entrance around 9 am and enjoyed a leisurely drive to the car park. With many curlew, lapwing, over 50 mute swan, mallard, coot, black-headed gull, herring gull, crow, rook, starling, grey heron, kestrel, common […]
Just a reminder for those of you joining us at Elmley this weekend that the reserve opens at 9 am, and we will aim be ready to leave the car park for our walk by 10.00 am. Enjoy the drive in, and remember to stay in the car for the duration of the 2 […]
Our outdoor meeting on 4th December is to Elmley NNR on the Isle of Sheppey. Winter is a great time to visit Elmley with potential to see barn, short-eared and sometimes long-eared owl, the marsh harriers coming into roost and large flocks of winter geese, ducks and other migrants which winter there. Entrance to the […]
An apt day to carry out what has now become our annual bonfire volunteer task. Although light rain was falling it was not enough to damped the spirits of our hardy volunteers who gathered in the Northward Hill car park at 9 am. We gathered the tools required, then Emily (Rspb assistant warden) assisted […]
Nine members of the group enjoyed the delights of Swanscombe this weekend. With windy weather forecast it was always going to be a challenge to get good views of the birds, but we managed a creditable selection of birds and plants from this excellent wildlife site. Before we set off some had seen kestrel, […]
Eleven of the group met at this Essex Wildlife Trust reserve on the River Colne. After several windy days we were met beautiful sunny day with an almost cloudless sky. This reserve has a mix of habitats including woodland, scrub, marsh and a relatively new intertidal area where the river wall was breached to allow […]
Fourteen of us gathered at the Old Lighthouse, Dungeness, on a very cold but sunny and clear day. We were met by Jack, one of the Dungeness National Nature Reserve wardens, who gave us a briefing on what we may see around the area and at the RSPB reserve. Making our way out to the […]
Expectations were low as fourteen of us gathered in the RSPB car park on this cold, windy but dry day! On the leaders’ recce only eleven species had been spotted so the first target was to see at least one bird species for every member attending. The second target was to find the notoriously […]