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With shallow flooding at times during December, the marshes started attracting in some birds, with peak counts of 53 black-headed gulls, 37 mallard and three herring gulls. After more…

The weather turned much more wintry towards the end of the month, and a hard frost on November 29th may have been responsible for the snipe flock declining…

We are very grateful to our local KCC councillor, Mike Sole (pictured), for providing us with £400 from his KCC Member’s grant. We’ve used it to add five…

There were autumnal signs aplenty in October. A little grebe on the river on October 3rd, occasional meadow pipits and skylarks flying over (left), eight tufted duck and…

The large tags that have defaced the A2 bridge for so many years have vanished! Being in such an exposed and elevated location, they were an eyesore to walkers…

Our hay crop was cut on October 13th and rowed up a couple of days later, but in the early hours of the16th someone set light to it, creating this…

We’re delighted to have been given a Green Flag Award, the quality badge for green spaces. Jon Winder, Chair of Love Hambrook Marshes, said: “Hambrook Marshes this week…

An overflying flock of 26 greylag geese on September 21st was the highest count for six years. After being absent all summer, it was encouraging to see a…

At the far western end of Hambrook Marshes is the wooden Tonford footbridge, leading to a tarmac path over the level crossing and up Tonford Lane. Adjoining the bridge…

Hambrook Marshes, along with a number of other green spaces in the Canterbury district are gaining added protection under new legislation aimed at reducing anti-social behaviour. The marshes will…