LETTERS FROM SHEPPEY

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

Monday, 25 November 2013

Shellness Morning

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With the daily walk round the main marsh part of the reserve becoming both a tad boring due to a general lack of birds and mucky lately d...
Saturday, 16 November 2013

Harty Ducks

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As you can see I was on Harty at dawn this morning for one of my early morning patrols around the reserve. The one above was taken from t...
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Thursday, 14 November 2013

It was a green and pleasant land.

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Once apon a time, before Sheppey's countryside became covered in huge housing estates, caravan parks and green energy farms, it was a...
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Sunday, 3 November 2013

More About the Sheppey Light Railway

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After my last post mentioning the Sheppey Light Railway, it stirred me to re-read the excellent little booklet by Peter A. Harding entitled ...
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Railway Gates

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The gate pictured below is one along the reserve boundary, nothing special about it except that it used to be part of the Sheppey Light Rail...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

How warm it is

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The weather remains incredibly warm at the moment, even when its cloudy and rainy, although Sheppey seems to have had a lot less rain than o...
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Monday, 14 October 2013

More rain needed

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After last Friday's 16 hour monsoon and then more rain yesterday, I was hoping to see a decrease in the dry conditions on the reserve wh...
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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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