Thursday 5th March

The cold has returned so I was on foot at the Peregrine Watch. A large flock of Sea Gulls was circling above the river, looking like pieces of paper in a wind. Walking back along the Gorge rim I spotted a Redshank just below the Donkey Slide, then, just before Circular Road stopped to look for a Robin singing. He was high up in some ivy on an ash tree, without his red breast he would have been impossible to find. Coming back behind Zoo Bank there were three kinds of Tit - Blue, Coal and Great, all in pairs, and flitting around the top of the hawthorn bushes. Add Blackbirds and Thrushes, Magpies, Crows, Pigeons and Jackdaws.