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 […]
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 […]
I have written before that Stodmarsh NNR is one of my favourite reserves and for our trip there this weekend, the conditions were perfect. On this occasion we did an ‘anti-clockwise’ circuit, starting from the Stodmarsh car park and heading towards the Marsh hide and from there on to Grove Ferry via the David Feast […]
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, […]
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 […]
An enthusiastic group met in the car park at Oare, some bearing news of birds they had already seen, wood sandpiper being one, and those that had already left – the Bonaparte’s gull had flown off with a group of black-headed gulls some ten minutes earlier! Tempted by the thought of the sandpiper we […]
The first of this month’s outings was to be at Dungeness on Sunday 9th February. Unfortunately storm Ciara had other ideas, heading for us on the same day. Having decided to bring the meeting forward a day we hoped that anyone who wanted to come would see the email – many apologies if […]
A bright start to a winters day at Elmley on Saturday, where 18 members of the group met up. Enjoying the drive along the entrance track had already given us excellent sightings of marsh harrier, buzzard, several hundred lapwing, ruff (including one which seemed to already be gaining its white breeding plumage), black-tailed godwit and […]