Sunday 6th January

Sunny and frosty ... and my bike slipped going round a corner! No damage apart from a couple of scrapes and too my dignity; a fall brings home how unsafe two wheels can be. From Sea Walls I could see a large wader on the mud a couple of hundred meters down stream. Possibly, it was a Curlew from the way it moved, it looked larger than some gulls at a similar distance. Otherwise Mallard, tight groups of Black Headed Gulls and occasional Redshank, three Cormorants reared snake-like heads on the river. Nothing at the Peregrine Watch.