LETTERS FROM SHEPPEY

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

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

The Swale Barge Race

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The annual Swale Barge Race took place a couple of Saturdays ago in warm and pleasant weather and was it's usual spectacular sight. The ...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

Glorious Harty

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Early morning today on Harty and the reserve saw one of those visits where it was just such a real privilege to be out and about on such a g...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Birdwatching

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Walking across both the reserve and the two RSPB fields alongside this morning, it was humid, very windy and sunny, before all the clouds ev...
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Saturday, 25 July 2015

Famous Last Words

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Well, well, "famous last words" as they say and mine were to title my last blog "The Drought Goes On". Yesterday and ove...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2015

The Drought Goes on

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Those of you who know the Harty Road will recognise the next photo, it's Capel Fleet at "Capel Corner". This normally wide and...
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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Rumbles in the Countryside

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Driving through the farmland spinney/copse whatever, that gives us access onto the reserve yesterday I was struck by how much it has all fil...
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Thursday, 16 July 2015

Harvest Time

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Dragging myself away from the Test Match for a while, time for another blog. All across Harty the fields are golden with ripe rape, corn an...
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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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