Clouded Yellow Butterfly in November

It was a beautiful sunny day when I visited Oare Marshes last week and if you count the Starlings there must have been over 5,000 birds around and about, 2,000 of which were made up of Dunlin, Avocets, Golden Plover, Lapwings, Black Tailed Godwits, various Geese and on the not bird scene, beside a few […]

Low flying Marsh Harrier

Oare Marshes on a bleak, slightly drizzly, dark, cold and overall dismal day makes for good birdwatching in my opinion, not good necessarily for good photos though. It always reminds me of the opening scene in the original 1950’s production of Dicken’s ‘Great Expectations’ and wandering around you’re half expecting for the Convict to suddenly […]

Blue Tits eating Peanuts

Blue Tits taking control !         Yellowhammer in Garden – Stonechat, Dungeness – Siskin, Conningbrook Lakes         Reed Bunting, Dungeness – Seal at Warsash – Pintails & Teals, Oare Marshes         Oare Marshes – Nuthatch, Eastwell Lake – Merganser, Eastwell Lake         Great Egret, Rye Harbour – Long Eared Owl, Dungeness […]