Whimbrels, Wheatears and warm weather
It’s sunny! I can go birdwatching in a force 9 gale but when it’s sunny is better. A morning down at good old Rainham Marshes was the plan (no plan really). My routine is to walk along the Thames path to the landfill site and the wander back to the visitor centre and do a steady lap there. The walk along the Thames path at 8:30am meant the sun was nicely behind me giving the best light and viewing conditions a man can get. Rainham, a hotspot for Whimbrel this spring Oystercatcher The foreshore of the Thames had a single Whimbrel , a few Oystercatchers and a few small groups of Shelduck . Overhead, a party of Common Terns argued with each other other something or nothing. From here, I walked through Wheatear alley and not surprising in the least I saw a Wheatear . Fancy that. Northern Wheatear In every clump of reed or dense vegetation, the random chattering of Reed Warblers – they sound as though they are talking to themselves – sounded out. They keep themselves ...