Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It was still quite snowy on the reserve when I arrived this morning. There’s been a big thaw over the weekend, thanks to a splash...

Sunday was an absolutely beautiful day! Sunny all day, hardly any wind, fabulous. And lots of people agreed, as I've not seen the car park as full in a long time. Which made it even worse, as I was still feeling like death on a stick, trying to shake...

Having proclaimed Sunday's red kite as "Bird of the Year So Far", it didn't take long for it to be topped! Not by some hyper-zonky mega-crippler, but by a bird that until fairly recently was so common in Kent that large numbers were...

..as Thin Lizzy once observed. Returning tonight from the weeks shop, as I pulled up outside the farm, the unmistakable shape of a dead rabbit appeared in my headlights. "Odd" I mused, "I'm sure that wasn't there when I left"...

I've not been too inspired to write much over the past few days, as the weather here has been so blah. I'm starting to forget what a blue sky looks like! It's just mist & low cloud (not even any much-needed rain) and a nagging northerly...