This on a pretty dull and grey morning at RSPB Northward Hill, The Cuckoos x 2 were extremely vocal and the lone Nightingale singing up to a few days ago (on the way to Ernie Hemsley Viewpoint) has finally stopped singing. Plenty of Whitethroats were vocalising in the scrub and the highlight of the day was seeing a pair of Nightingales in the appropriately named Nightingale Tree, so-called because you could almost guarantee hearing a male singing from mid April to the end of May in it. I'm guessing they are a breeding pair.
Stuart, a local birder was on site and apart from the usual ducks, waders and gulls text me some extras he'd seen, these include a Red Kite over the entrance track, a Cattle Egret over Ernie Hemsley V. P. and a Little Owl.
A Stoat carrying a baby Rabbit and a Red Fox. A pair of nesting Lesser Whitethroats at the bottom of the hill track.
He also saw a pair of Stock Doves and a pair of Egyptian Geese, as Stuart said,"not back for a grey day!".
The North Kent Marshes are a very special area and worth preserving at all cost.