Tuesday 20th February

I walked over to the Gorge via Whiteladies Road. It is Chris's birthday next Sunday - I bought a copy of Orhan Pamuk's "Istanbul memories of a city". At the peregrine watch I could see the two redshank on the mud just below the cliff, they were feeding and flew around occasionally. Looks like this is a pair now. Otherwise only mallard, black headed and lesser black backed gulls and common gulls. I wonder if there are any other types of gull that I'm missing. It is difficult to see differences.