Spent this morning waiting for the Marsh Sandpiper to wake up! I was told it had been active earlier, so it must have worn it's self out and was a sleep with two Greenshanks right at the back of Aveley Pools so distant! But this is the first to be seen in the London area for 34 years, so quite rare for the capital.
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| Marsh Sandpiper asleep with two Greenshanks |
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| still asleep! |
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| A secretive Water Vole |
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| Whimbrel on the foreshore |
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| Avocet on the foreshore |
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| Small Tortoiseshell butterfly |
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| Walking along The Thames there was a proper gale blowing, ideal yachting weather but unusually for Rainham it was a warm blow! |
