• Strong winds, high tides, zooming clouds
    Gone is that biting Nor'westerly of yesterday and back to howling Sou'westerlies we go.... In between the torrential squalls there have been some bright sunny spells when the Golden Plover and Lapwing...
  • Another Huge Tide
    It was not especially windy this afternoon but that did not stop a very big tide creeping up on us. It completely sumerged the saltmarsh and overlapped the Victorian seawall and the lower platform adjacent...
  • Big Tide; Huge Ship!
    It was also a very big tide today with no wind to ruffle it leaving it like the proverbial mill pond. I wandered out to check for any rodents or shrews caught out by the rapidly rising water but there...
  • Tides
    Hello My name is Gemma, I work at Academy films in Central London. We are hoping to film on Monday the 15th of April on the Marshes for a short film called 'Glance'. We have just been send the Tilbury...
  • Huge tadpoles!
    This is the time of year when the Marsh Froglets start to emerge. You can often see them loafing around on the emergent vegetation with various numbers of legs and enormous tails. Funnily enough, when...