Another 2 weeks has passed & still no joy in getting onto the RSPB website at Elmley - a real conundrum. I have been sent another possible fix that I will try when I return to Kingshill Farm, but I'm currently at Northward Hill, hence the chance...

Hopefully anyway. Apologies for the complete lack of blogs over the past month, but as RR mentioned on a recent Forum posting, I'm still experiencing major problems accessing the RSPB website from Elmley & no-body seems to know why that is...

I thought that we'd got rid of it, but once again certain bits of the reserve are experiencing a "bloom" of blue-green algae. It's not actually an alga at all, as it's "proper" name is cyanobacteria. These are photosynthesising...

Ah. What other blog takes it's title from obscure Deep Purple tracks...? Every so often someone comes along and beats me to a good bird at Elmley. When I went out last night to switch off the generator, I noticed that someone had written "LEO...

A day off on Saturday, so an opportunity to get off Sheppey & I decided to head off & try to see some new species of odonata. Or dragonflies & damselflies to you & I. Heading south from Elmley, the lifting bridge was up over the Swale...