Thursday 27 December 2012

RSPB HARTY


Continuing my theme of recent posts regarding the flooding at Harty, Sheppey, some of you will recall visiting the two RSPB fields below Muswell Manor, Leysdown last winter in order to spot the Lapland Bunting flock that had built up there. The buntings were feeding on the weed seed in both of the fields and the flock built up to around 60 odd birds.
The two fields are seperated by a raised bund and I took these photos this morning at sunrise, standing on the bund looking towards Shellness Hamlet. All four photos are of the left-hand field, which as you can see, indicates the extent of flooding both on those two fields and on The Swale NNR alongside. Hard to believe buntings were feeding in this field last winter. (Sorry about the darkness of the photos but sunrise was being threatened by approaching dark rain clouds at the time)




2 comments:

  1. Lovely lighting Derek in the shots, the best part of the day although it was all to brief as usual.

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  2. Thanks again for the comments Marc. I don't have the interest in photography that you guys have and my camera is only a small Fuji, with which I hope to simply give an idea of what I was looking at.

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