LETTERS FROM SHEPPEY

Life, Times and Natural History from the Isle Of Sheppey in Kent.

Saturday, 24 December 2022

After the drought - eventually.

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 So, my last posting left us with the return of the wildfowlers, all set for another six month season shooting wildfowl alongside the reserv...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2022

One dark winter's morning

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As someone who sleeps badly and as a consequence rises early, nothing frustrates me more than these dark winter's mornings that seem to ...
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Sunday, 20 February 2022

Season Crossroads

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 Today was the last day of this winter's wildfowling season and it will not resume now until the 1st September.  That now means that my ...
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Monday, 31 January 2022

Coming up to date

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 After the recent couple of postings that have seen me looking backwards to very earlier times, it is now the last day of January and time p...
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Saturday, 22 January 2022

The Library

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 From a very early age a place of both refuge and information for me was the local library. From either of the two places that I lived in in...
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Thursday, 13 January 2022

Retrospective times

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 Since my last post we have now entered into another new year, one that will be my 75th and I guess that, as I have lived here on Sheppey al...
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Friday, 24 December 2021

In the Beginning

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 We're now in that fag end time of the year when if like me, you get no enjoyment out of all this Christmas stuff, life can get a tad te...
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Derek Faulkner
I have lived on and rambled around on Sheppey all of my life and I'm interested in anything to do with its wildlife and history. Retired in 2006,aged 59. Was a Voluntary Warden on the Swale NNR at Harty, Sheppey from 1987 to June 2012, when Natural England scrapped the posts. I still visit that reserve most days and have been re-instated as a Voluntary Warden by Elmley Conservation Trust, who mange the reserve for Natural England. I first joined the Kent Ornithological Society in 1959 but I very rarely birdwatch anywhere other than on Sheppey. I have the one Jack Russell dog, called Ellie, who is normally with me on the reserve as I carry out my regular patrols. Ellie was born in Sept 2011.
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