Thursday November 29th

There was a beautiful bright blue sky this morning, producing a blinding reflection from the river by Sea Walls. The high tide, it was still coming in, had the usual effect of causing most of the bird population to go elsewhere, but I did follow a lone Cormorant as it skimmed the river surface, and flew down towards Horseshoe Bend. A Kestral appeared briefly above the water below the Peregrine Watch, she was a marvellous red-brown colour, just like the red colour we saw in the Beech trees a little earlier this year. She hovered, landed and fluttered between the trees beside the railway, no doubt looking for a meal. No sign of Peregrines, but I was assured that they do still perch in the trees over in the quarry, I have not seen them for several weeks.