Evening all
Yesterday (22nd October) saw the start of the work to build the new ground level Purfleet Hide in the bank viewable from the visitors centre. It will look out over a re-landscaped Purfleet Scrape and afford excellent views.
To start with the diggers are removing the top soil. The reedy bit will be kept in one pile and the grassy bit in another to be replaced once works have finished to allow the area to naturally regenerate.
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer
I am sorry, but Rainham is not big enough or exciting enough (no disrespect intended) to warrant another enormous, expensive, conspicuous 'hide'. I was disappointed to see the new hide at the western end of the site, it resembled an office block more than a hide & was it really nearly half a million £?
I do hope the Purfleet hide will be in keeping with this low level marsh site, ie low & hidden, & if the RSPB has huge sums of money to spend, please spend it on improving habitat for wildlife & buying more land. The reserve should be about the birds, not us.