• Rainham marshes closure for our patron the queen
    As a mark of respect to our patron Queen Elizabeth Rainham marshes will be closed on Monday 19th September. Our thoughts are with the royal family on the day of the Queens funeral. Rainham marshes...
  • A beautiful evening....
    It cooled down a little as the day wore on yesterday and it was nice to find visitors sitting at the end of the ramp at the end of the day enjoying a young Grey Heron practice fishing in the shallows...
  • Beautiful beardies...
    No - I'm not talking about Howard (although he is a bearded beauty!)... The bearded tits have been showing off nicely, and I know Howard has done a recent blog post all about these fabulous birds...
  • Beautiful sunset
    and nearly forgot that unlike this evening it was a marvelous sunset last night. I took this one looking into London with the heights of Canada Tower and its siblings (13miles away), the new flats...
  • Fragile Beauty
    Our swathe of lilac Opium Poppies in the Wildlife Garden are only open so briefly before they quickly get pollinated, the petals drop and the seed ripens. Tony Houston timed it just right to capture them...