Into the wilderness of Elmley Marshes
Elmley Marshes looking back towards Kingshill Farm Elmley Marshes is a vast, flat expanse of grass and marsh land on the southern side of the Isle of Sheppey, where it runs along the northern side of the Swale estuary. Distance is a great word to associate with this place. The two mile drive from the entrance to the car park tests your driving as bird life is rich in the fields, channels and pools but the road is narrow and snakes around floods and gullies that if your car went in, well that would be that. So at 5mph and one eye on the road and one scanning the landscape, it was easy to pick up the lapwings; some divebombing the car other seemingly oblivious to it and therefore making viewing them very close up a treat. A marsh harrier quartered in the distance and little egrets flew up from one channel and the down again to be hidden from view. Disinterested Lapwing Once at the car park at Kingshill Farm, there was the slightly strange sight of golden plover, dunlin and fieldf