Monday, Tuesday 5th,6th November

Redshank on the mud (and there was a lot of it) below Sea Walls on both days. Monday was very dull but today, Tuesday was sunny and more interesting. A quintet - Heron, Black Backed Gull, Cormorant, Crow and Mallard were all within yards of each other beside the Storm drain outlet, with a number of other gulls and ducks in the river nearby. At one point the Cormorant adopted the 'Batman' pose with its wings out, so there must have been some food at the drain. At the Peregrine Watch, just as I was about to leave, a Peregrine appeared, circling in and out of the trees, and moving right until it landed to perch in the top of a birch tree at the top of the right hand quarry. The Gorge Peregrines seem to use this technique to flush other birds, mainly pigeons out, this time it drew a blank, and I did not wait to seem if it resumed the hunt.

Friday to Sunday, Novemeber 2nd to 4th

Friday: This morning was glorious - the sun was reflected from the river so strongly that it blinded me! On the mud just below Sea Walls - as usual on this side of the river - was a Curlew and several Redshanks, making the most of the new mud exposed by the ebbing tide. On the other side of the river, a Heron was fishing. At the Peregrine Watch I saw a Raven sitting in the Banana Tree! That should keep the Peregrines out!
Saturday: Another glorious day, there were some Redshank (plural Redshanks?) on the mud on the usual side of the river below Sea Walls. At the Peregrine Watch I had a glimpse of a Peregrine going in to the woodland opposite between the two quarries, it was carrying prey, a little later it moved, still carrying, up into the top of the quarry above the Banana Tree.
Sunday: Today was very foggy when I left Bishopston, but it cleared on the Downs to a misty blue sky. I could not see any Redshank, but there were three Herons, two on the Downs side and one opposite, Sea Walls. No Peregrines, but the stay at the Watch was made very pleasant by the absence of any traffic on the Portway, which was closed for repairs to the Gorge rocks.