With heavy traffic preventing a normal journey home last night I ended up at my parents for the evening and so at about 9.30 I decided to stop for a look on Rainham West in the failing light. With reduced traffic noise and no wind, it was a pleasant half hour well wasted in order to get a free Bridge trip home! Plenty of warbler song with Reeds and Sedges still going strong and two Grasshopper Warblers were reeling again between me and the A13 suggesting that second broods may be on the way. A Cuckoo flew past low and silent and Cetti's Warblers periodically scared the life out of me.
Those of a nervous disposition when it comes to flying insects would have been suffering from deep trauma though as the sky was full on swirling columns of dancing, gyrating Gnats.... they were undoubtedly mostly non biting males but walking through them was not the most pleasurable of experiences and despite a good dinner I seemingly found room for a few the raving throng!
11-6-15