Male Common Darter on the Thames path at Rainham Marshes
Comma butterfly on pink Sedum/Stonecrop flowers near the car park
Tall Cardoon plants with large seed heads at the edge of the car park
Bee in the centre of a still-flowering Cardoon
Upside-down Comma butterfly
White butterfly on a Buddleia flower
and on a Sedum
Cat bird watcher at the marshes
Marsh frog resting in the stream
Lapwing in front of the Purfleet hide
Juvenile Little Grebe - a parent was fishing nearby
A juvenile male Kingfisher put on a performance in front of the MDZ bird hide. Photographs were taken through the glass window, which is covered with camouflage netting with some camera lens-sized holes so that the birds don't get scared off.
Unidentified caterpillar on the path
A Migrant Hawker dragonfly was hanging from a shrub
Black-tailed Godwit with slightly windswept feathers at the Shooting Butts hide
Same Little Egret in two completely different poses
Peaceful view on a lovely day - with lots of electricity pylons in the distance
Bath time for a Shoveler duck
A couple of Gadwalls on the move
Lapwing and Snipe
plus a few Black-headed gulls and a sleeping Black-tailed Godwit
It was great weather and I enjoyed a lovely walk along part of the Thames path outside the reserve and then a long walk all round the reserve itself. I must go there more often!
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