On Sunday 16 July the group visited Elmley NNR reserve. It was a warm, dry if humid day where a hat and sunscreen were the order of the day, together with provisions and drink as it is a mile long walk from the car park to the first of the hides around the scrape. With […]
Stodmarsh is my favourite reserve, May is my favourite month to visit it and hence I like to volunteer to lead this trip. So when the promised good weather turned to a rainy, damp morning and a notice in the Stodmarsh car park announced that the section along the Stour was closed again, I was […]
Last Sunday John and Pauline led a lovely walk around this excellent reserve which is now run by the Elmley Conservation Trust. Here is their report: Driving down to the car park, there is still a lot of surface water providing nesting and feeding opportunities, a coot on a nest being one. Many […]
After a few grey dank days it was great to get out in the gentle sunshine of Elmley today. Along the entrance track it was obvious that the area was extremely dry, with rills and pools completely empty. In view of that we were lucky to see a few birds on the way to the […]