Birding the southern Medway

Tideway ramblings on the birds of the Medway, from estuary head (Upnor Reach) to estuary mouth (Sheerness) and the deep water channel beyond.

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

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Tideway ramblings

Birding the shoreline from the estuary head at St. Mary's Island, Chatham, to the estuary mouth at Sheerness and the deep water channel beyond. Don't expect quality writing, quality photographs, or even quality birds. This is just an attempt to understand the estuary birdlife, with the focus on the common species found here.

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Bird ringing: Redshank
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Bird ringing: Linnet

The shoreline site guide

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  • Shoreline site guide (i): Upnor Reach to Motney Hill
  • Shoreline site guide (ii): Otterham Creek to Lower Halstow

Woodpigeon over Bloors

Other blog pages of interest

  • How to bird the Medway
  • Why bird the Medway?
  • The Medway Gulleries
  • The Magpie winter roost at Berengrave
  • back to blog

Birders on the Julie Sue

What's been in the blog:

"Birds at Falsterbo" (1) Arctic Tern (1) Avocet (15) Bar-tailed Godwit (3) Bartlett Spit (1) Bayford Marsh (1) Bedlams Bottom (3) Bedlams Reach (1) Bee Ness Jetty (1) Berengrave (12) Bird Wise (1) birdfood (1) BirdTAM (1) Bishop Ooze (1) Bishop Spit (1) Black Brant (1) Black-headed Gull (11) Black-tailed Godwit (11) Blackbird (1) Blackcap (3) Bloors Wharf (1) Blue Tit (2) books (1) Brambling (4) Brent Cottages (1) Brent Goose (15) Brushed Shore Crab (1) Burntwick (1) Buzzard (1) Callum Hill (1) Canada Goose (1) Cetti's Warbler (1) Chaffinch (5) Chetney (6) Chetney Hill (2) Chetney Marshes (1) Chiffchaff (3) Chinese lanterns (1) Cinque Port Marshes (1) Cockham Reach (1) Collared Dove (3) Common Gull (1) Common Sandpiper (1) Common Scoter (3) Common Snipe (2) Common Tern (1) Coot (1) Cormorant (3) Crow (1) Cuckoo (1) Curlew (19) Darnet Fort (1) dawn ascent (1) Deadmans Island (1) disturbance (8) dog walkers (1) Dunlin (23) Dunnock (1) egg thieves (2) Egyptian Goose (1) Eider (2) Environment Agency (1) escape movement (1) Fallout (3) fat (1) feeding disturbance (2) Fieldfare (3) fireworks (4) fly tipping (3) Friars Saltings (4) Funton (6) Funton Creek (2) Funton Reach (2) G K Yeates (1) Gadwall (1) Garrison Point (1) Gillingham Marshes (1) Gillingham Pier (1) Goldcrest (2) Golden Plover (7) Goldeneye (4) Goldfinch (2) Gore Farm (1) Grain (2) Great Black-backed Gull (1) Great Crested Grebe (4) Great Northern Diver (2) Great Skua (1) Great Spotted Woodpecker (1) Great Tit (1) Green Sandpiper (2) Green Woodpecker (1) Greenborough (1) Greenfinch (3) Greenshank (8) Grey Heron (7) Grey Plover (18) Grey Wagtail (3) Greylag Goose (1) Ham Green (1) Ham Ooze (2) Hawes Wood (1) Hawfinch (1) Herring Gull (2) Hoo Island (3) Horrid Hill (92) Horsham marsh (1) House Sparrow (1) hybrid (1) hybrid geese (1) inshore waters (1) Jack Snipe (1) Jackdaw (2) Jay (1) JulieSue (1) Kethole Reach (1) Kingfisher (1) Kittiwake (2) Knot (13) Lapwing (11) Lesser Black-backed Gull (2) Lesser Redpoll (1) Linnet (2) Little Egret (6) Little Grebe (3) Little Owl (1) Living River Foundation (1) Long-tailed Duck (1) Long-tailed Tit (1) Lower Halstow (4) Lower Upnor (2) Magpie (5) Mallard (3) Marsh Harrier (2) Meadow Pipit (2) Mediterranean Gull (3) Medway Council (1) Meresborough (1) Middle Bank (1) Millfordhope (1) Millfordhope Marsh (1) Motney Hill (5) Motney Saltings (4) Mound (1) Mute Swan (1) nestboxes (1) Nightingale (1) nocturnal migrants (1) Nor Marsh (4) Oakham Island (8) Otterham creek (1) Oystercatcher (18) Peregrine (3) Pheasant (1) photography (1) photoperiods (1) Pied Wagtail (2) Pintail (2) post-juvenile dispersal (1) Rainham Creek (2) Rainham Saltings (1) Raspberry Hill (3) Red-breasted Merganser (6) Redshank (17) Redstart (1) Redwing (2) Reed Bunting (3) Reed Warbler (2) Ringed Plover (9) ringing (7) Riverside Country Park (2) Robin (3) Rock Pipit (3) Rook (5) roost dispersal (2) roost disturbance (2) RSPB (1) Sandwich Tern (1) sea state (1) Seagulls(!) (1) Seaplane (2) Sedge Warbler (1) Shag (4) Sharp's Green (1) Sharp's Green Bay (1) Shelduck (6) Shoveler (3) Siberian Accentor (1) Siskin (2) Skylark (1) Slayhills (1) Song Thrush (2) South Yantlet Cannel (1) Sparrowhawk (3) Spinal Tap (1) Spoonbill (1) Spotted Redshank (2) spring migration (1) spring tides (1) St.Mary's Island (1) Stangate Creek (2) Starling (3) Stock Dove (2) surge (1) surge tide (1) Swale Ness (1) Swallow (3) swell (1) Teal (9) The Shade (1) The Strand (1) tidal surge (1) Tiptree (1) TTTCs (1) Turnstone (10) Twinney Creek (1) Twinney Saltings (1) Upchurch (2) Velvet Scoter (1) visible migration (4) Waddenzee (1) WeBS (3) Westmoreland (1) Wheatear (3) Whimbrel (6) White Wagtail (1) Wigeon (4) Willow Warbler (2) wind (1) Woodpigeon (11) Wren (3) Yellow Wagtail (1) Yellowhammer (1)

Bird ringing; Spotted Redshank

Estuary conditions

  • BirdTAM southern North Sea migration forecast
  • forecasts- inshore waters (BBC)
  • forecasts- surges
  • forecasts- tides (BBC)
  • forecasts- weather (Met Office)
  • forecasts- winds (windy.com)
  • latest rainfall radar images
  • Trektellen- North Sea migration

Rainham Creek

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Chetney beach

Useful estuary birding links

  • Bird Wise (monitoring disturbance)
  • Birdsong- Xeno Canto
  • Bloors Lane Community Woodland
  • BTO WeBS- Online interactive report
  • BTO- BirdFacts
  • BTO- Birdtrack
  • BTO- BirdTrends
  • BTO- Ringing
  • BTO- WeBS (Wetland Bird Survey)
  • Friends of North Kent Marshes
  • Kent birding guide/resources (Fatbirder)
  • Living River Foundation
  • Motney reserve (Wild Spaces Fund)
  • MSEP (Medway Swale Estuary Partnership)
  • RSPB Medway Local Group
  • Site names marine chart (i-Boating)

bird ringing: Kingfisher

Other useful links

  • Iwade- local village news
  • Kent/Essex Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority
  • Marine traffic
  • Medway- council news
  • Upchurch- local village news
  • Wild Spaces Fund- conservation arm of Kent Wildfowlers

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Nor Marsh, high tide

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