The reserve entrance firmly closed
No Entry and No Parking
The boarded up Screen Hide
Fortunately I can walk or cycle to Dengemarsh, but hopefully this situation wont last for too much longer as I am wasting away, I have now lost 4 stone from 15st 9 down to 11st 9.
Cuckoo's are still chasing each other around and Bitterns are still booming, but there is a definite mid summer feel to Dengemarsh as the small birds are quite muted and busy nesting.There has been a trickle of wader migration with 2 Curlew Sandpipers, 16 Sanderling, 4 Dunlin, a Knot, an LRP, several Ringed Plovers, a stunning Grey Plover and a gorgeous Ruff resplendent in Jet Black. 2 lovely Little Gulls spent a couple of days here, all 3 Egrets can be seen, a single Cattle Egret, 2 Great White Egrets and up to 8 Little Egrets. Common Terns are fishing in every stretch of open water. Every time you scan around Marsh Harriers and Common Buzzards are constantly in the air but very low numbers of Hobbys still. Mediterranean Gulls are still trickling overhead, usually only heard as they tend to be stratospheric.
Another flyby Cuckoo
Poor images of distant Curlew Sandpipers
1 of 2 Little Gulls present
Linnet
Ringed Plover
A young Toad in the garden
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