Wednesday 18 September 2024

Wildlife at Rainham Marshes - 13th September 2024

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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