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With time still at a premium I'm concentrating on local to limit travel time and maximise birding time and I'm quite enjoying it to be honest. Yesterday I dropped George to school in Hornchurch then popped down to Rainham for a couple of hours before my other duties for the day. The Spotted Redshank was still on Wennington although the water levels suggest not for long and a qui...

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KGV

Another day and another walk along the bank of the King George V reservoir with Jim. No sign of yesterdays star bird with most of the Swallows and house Martins having moved on overnight leaving around sixty or so Sand Martins with a scattering of Swallow and House Martin. The Scaup was seen by Ian L on the south basin among the now 150ish Tufted Ducks. A few Mallard and Gadw...


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I'm currently running around looking after family as much as I possibly can but I have made a commitment to myself to squeeze in a bit more time for birding and as such I'm dropping into KGV and Rainham when I can. Travelling time is a few minutes for each so I'm spending more time birding and less time driving although I do crave a good day on the coast.

Over the last ...


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The last four days has seen a couple more visits to KGV with Jim and I've carried out two RSPB volunteer farm surveys too.

The KGV walks produced more Wheatear and our first Sedge Warbler on the patch this season. We missed a Great Egret whilst there that three of the other four birders there all saw. We heard Kingfisher again so I'm sure we'll actually get to see one a...


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A quick walk round Rainham on Friday gave me my first Common Tern of the year when two birds flew down river early morning as me and Steve B scanned the river waiting for the reserve to open. At the entrance to the reserve I had my first Willow Warbler of the year and on the reserve my first ever booming Bittern for Rainham marshes. This Bittern has now boomed for over a week so...

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