51.49040,0.23413
- Grid ref: TQ552792
- Lat/long: 51.49040,0.23413
- Postcode: RM19 1SZ
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Rainham Marshes is one of the best places for wildlife in the UK.
Top things to do in Spring
- The amazing cacophony of croaking marsh frogs, day and night
- A myriad of butterflies and bees dancing around the swathes of flowers, while dragonflies patrol the ditches and pools
- Tumbling lapwings defending their territories over the marsh
Top things to do in Summer
- Water voles become very obliging and sometimes come to within a few feet of you!
- Our fabulous adventure playground for families to enjoy
- Explore the Marshland Discovery Zone for both the young and young at heart
Top things to do in Autumn
- Come and see passage waders such as redshanks and black-tailed godwits
- Migrating birds of prey stay long enough to hunt over the marshes
- Exuberant Cetti's warblers burst into song to claim their patch of reeds for winter
Top things to do in Winter
- Swirling flocks of countless lapwings and golden plovers shimmering in the winter sky
- Hunting peregrines plummeting after waders and ducks
- Whistling wigeons grazing the wetlands like feathered sheep
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