Spent 90 odd minutes in the Purfleet Hide at Rainham Marshes this morning. Very productive a fly by Kingfisher was a year tick as was a Spotted Redshank over the back of Purfleet Scrape and at least three Water Pipits and eventually the Jack Snipe were seen. Also had a Corn Bunting along the seawall early on.
Sorry about the images below, they are really heavily cropped!
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| Water Pipit - this image doesn't do it justice, it was a smart bird with a pinky wash to the breast starting to appear |
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| Jack Snipe - it came in to the open briefly and literally ran across the exposed gap to the next small batch of vegetation and disappeared! |
