Horrid autumn- 31/07/17

It's about time I started some short blogposts here.

So, although I usually steer away from sightings highlights, I've toyed with an idea for some time now of recording an autumn as can be seen within the bowels of the Country Park, from Horrid Hill. The Spurn of the South Medway (if you change your compass view and squint hard). Each day I visit, there'll be a short factoid paragraph, then a few of the counts from the notebook.

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31/07/17

07:15-08:30, neap tide, in

Point- Cetti's Warbler (3rd day), Meadow Pipit dropped in.

Viz mig- 1 Yellow Wagtail 16 Swallow, 11 Sand Martin (all west).

Offshore-

Sharp's Green Bay- 3 Turnstone back on the barge roost. Greenshank. 

Nor- Greenshank, 12 Grey Plover, 8 Dunlin, 7 Whimbrel. 

Bartlett- 4 Common Tern.

Friar's- 20 Grey Plover, 24 Curlew, 43 Turnstone.

A picture post, from July 2013

A Motney Hill sunset

The flash, Eastcourt Meadows

Starlings

Black-tailed Godwits, Otterham

Young Oystercatcher, Chetney

From Raspberry Hill

Spring tide: low-lying Chetney, with a submerged Greenborough beyond

A Motney Hill dawn

Slaughterhouse Point on a spring

The view from the Saxon Shoreway, Upchurch

Black-tailed Godwits, Motney

Rainham Docks East, morning roost

And we're back

A hectic spring monitoring local breeders had helped re-enforce a bit of a writer's block, now shifted thanks to a nudge from my number one (only one?) reader this past week. Several long ramblings are being readied. You have been warned..