Wednesday 21st November

A couple of Greater Black backed Gulls were walking, side by side, along the mud below Sea Walls, and I could see their beaks opening and closing as if they were talking, their back black stripey tail feathers waddled from side to side. All they needed was hands behind their backs ... enough of anthropomorphism, but it is sometimes irresistible! There were many birds on the mud today, half a dozen or more Redshank, a Heron, other Gulls - Common, Herring and Black Headed, a Cormorant in the water, then standing Batman-sign-like digesting its food. At the Peregrine Watch a juvenile Buzzard was flying among the trees, he landed in a tree, when I looked for him again he had gone. The two Ravens were perched just above their nest, then flew down river.