The waterlogged landscape of Kent looked well in Boxing day’s sunshine, the river Stour at Godmersham in spate and filling its floodplain, with the forecast of more rain to come tonight, the floods won’t retreat anytime soon.
Jack and I grabbed the window of fine weather to head to Dungeness under blue skies and with no wind. Little egrets have become part of the local scene for a decade or so – but today they were outnumbered by great white egrets, we saw at least three. While watching one fish along the edge of the reeds a bittern flew by.
With Cetti’s warblers exploding in song from waterside scrub, water rails squealing from the reeds and marsh harriers – it took a glossy ibis flying in to roost to round off the afternoon.
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