Recent sightings and Hen Harrier Day - now with added Packham!

What a week it has been, it's whizzed past - it's Hen Harrier Day tomorrow already!

Let's start with a few recent wildlife highlights:

• Bearded tit are still showing nicely on the Northern Boardwalk.
• Waders have included black-tailed godwit, ruff, dunlin, green sandpiper and little ringed plover on Aveley Flash.
• Swift, swallow, house martin and cuckoo have been flying overhead.
• Yellow legged gulls are on the River.
• Wasp spiders are around, and some willow emerald damselflies have been seen in the woodland.

Willow Emerald Damselfly by Dawn Cowan

It’s arrived – tomorrow is Hen Harrier Day 2018.

And so not only do we have:

Please join us and add your voice to the call for the illegal persecution of our birds of prey to stop.

We want our Hen Harriers back!

The event begins at 11am, in the Marquee field. The reserve opens from 8am.

With Hen Harrier day happening tomorrow the cafe is offering a special breakfast option. A Deluxe Breakfast Roll offer for our morning visitors (available until 11am, when the rally will begin).

A freshly baked crusty white baguette with fried onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and either bacon/sausage/vegetarian sausage filling! Served with either a tea or filter coffee for £6.50, grab yours tomorrow morning!

Friday 10th August 2018 - an update

• RSPB Rainham Marshes:- Marsh Harrier, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Avocet, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper, 52 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff, 2 Redshank, Common Tern, Barn Owl, 4 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 3 Bearded Tit, Skylark, 5 Sand Martin, 15 Swallow, 6 House Martin, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, 6 Yellow Wagtail-juv Cuckoo, 5 Swift