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Reculver Waders

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Friday before last, after finding the tame kestrel, I headed down to the beach. Starting at the western end the first thing of note were a couple of brent geese

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Cormorant and a ridiculously tame kestrel

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On Friday I headed to Reculver to try and find some tame waders and hopefully snow buntings. To the east of the castle there was a cormorant perched on a post

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Curlews and lapwing at Elmley marshes

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On Monday my trip to Minster (which had only few gulls) was diverted to Elmley Marshes. On the drive in we again passed quite a few nearby Curlews

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Waders at Oare marshes

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On saunday I popped over to Oare Marshes and there were plenty of birds about. On the sea wall there was a turnstone running about

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Seasalter meadow pipit

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Apologies for the lack of posts recently, to be honest Ive simply not had many photos to post about or the time to write some interesting stuff about wildlife in general. Last weekend was quite unproductive, with very little seen (I missed out on the Shrike at Stodmarsh, despite visiting the site Sunday). But I did get this meadow pipit at Seasalter on Sunday, which was a nice consolation :smile:

Skylarks at Reculver and whimbrels at Seasalter

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Last Sunday went to Reculver in search of waders. Unfortunately the beach was nearly covered by the tide when I got there, and being Sunday morning the area was swarming with dogs and their walkers. I held out little hope of seeing anything but gulls, but went for a nice walk anyway. On top of the cliff is Reculver country park, which is a long thin park with a path running along the cliff and another along the border and a 10m or so band of long grass between the two. Amazingly, despite the constant stream of dogs on both paths, the long grass held 2 or 3 skylarks

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Raptors at Grove ferry end of Stodmarsh NNR

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On Sunday I popped over too Stodmarsh near Canterbury, parking at the Grove Ferry end. As I entered the reserve I noticed a few butterflies feeding on the Ivy flowers, including this painted lady

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Oare marshes - waders

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Last month on a visit to Oare Marshes, the waders were on show. The were quite a few ringed plovers

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Oare marshes - my first ever yellow wagtails

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Last weekend I went to Oare Marshes, where they currently have some polish ponies grazing the marshesThst the swale bridge in the background

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Oare Marshes preview

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Here is a common darter I photographed last weekend at Oare Marshes.More to come