I travelled by train to Purfleet and then walked to Rainham Marshes along the road and Thames path.
A Goldfinch was having a bath in a large puddle just outside the visitor centre
A Lapwing was standing on the shore
Two Shelducks were in the shallow water at the edge of the river
My first (and only) photograph of a blurry distant Cuckoo!
Cruise liner heading for London
Common Whitethroat on blossom (in the reserve and viewed from the Thames path)
Avocets marching along the riverbed at low tide
Dunnock with wild rose
Inside the nature reserve, cows were blocking the view from the Purfleet hide
Male Shoveler duck
Female Shoveler duck
Pair of Shovelers
Shoveler drake on the move
Shoveler drake putting on a show of head bobbing and following the female
Great-crested Grebe with a small fish
Two Common Pochard drakes
Pair of Canada geese with young goslings
Hovering Kestrel
House Sparrow on the roof of the Purfleet hide
Pair of nesting Great-crested Grebes in front of the Purfleet hide
Little Grebe
Redshank on its own
then joined by its partner!!
Whimbrel or Curlew - I'm not sure!
Marsh Frog
Reed Bunting
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