Usual selection on offer at Elmley NNR this afternoon... Fun watching the waders power up The Swale on the rising tide. #KentBirding #ElmleyNNR #birds

Privet alive with Meadow Browns at #ElmleyNNR There must have been thousands across the reserve today! @KentWildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
#butterflies

Apologies for the positive post on this platform; here's a beautiful young Curlew chick, part of an inspiring "headstarting" project at #ElmleyNNR in Kent, trying to increase numbers of this endangered bird. It will be released into the wild in July, wish it well.

White Tailed Eagle,Mull

Golden Eagle flying very in the spring warmth above Mull

Bald Eagle perched on a pylon at John Heinz National Wildlife Reserve near Philadelphia

Distant White Tailed Eagle shimmering in the heat haze at Elmley NNR, Kent

We’ve had a month of big raptors
White Tailed Eagles and Golden Eagles on Mull, Bald Eagles in Pennsylvania and then a WTE pitches up on our home patch in Kent 💕 #addBird #Birding #ElmleyNNR #UKbirding #USbirding

Corn Bunting perched on a wooden gate

Distant White Tailed Eagle through the heat haze

Little Owl giving us the side-eye

Cinnabar Moth

First Corn Buntings of the year for us at #ElmleyNNR today. White Tailed Eagle was considerably larger than the usual fence post raptors seen there… even at a distance through heat haze. The Little Owl was downright judgmental 😂 Also loads of Cinnabar and 6 spot burnet moths.

Fab day at Elmley NNR today. Barn Owls out all day! Short Eared Owls very obliging. Hares feeling frisky in the spring sunshine. And a BlackTailed Godwit originally ringed in The Netherlands in May 2024
@kentwildlife.bsky.social
#Kent #Sheppey #ElmleyNNR

Bearded Reedling, jewel of reedbed #elmleynnr

This is all I got (besides the lovely beardies of course) so very envious of you seeing the owls @sarahlonges.bsky.social #elmleynnr

Happy New Year #sharemondays2025 people - ticked off another first for me last week and saw some fabulous #beardedtits at #ElmleyNNR what lovely creatures they are with a sweet little cry #fsprintmonday @sarahlonges.bsky.social so pleased I went, despite the cold @rspb.bsky.social

A Reed Bunting has ventured out from the reeds in the relative open, just a bare-leaved shrub for a perch and cover.
Then away, as passing walker behind me reminded it to return to the reeds.
#ElmleyNNR today

Merlin #elmleyNNR