Thursday 10th September

The horse chestnuts are turning to reds and yellows, and a few conkers have fallen. At Sea Walls a party of a dozen and a half young mothers, all with push chairs and infants were busy doing exercises under the tuition of a man in a track suit. They hitched rubber bungees to the railings and were using them to exercise their arms, while half the group used the wooden posts by the road to stretch their legs. I see this group fairly regularly, along with numerous joggers. The greater proportion of those exercising are women.
At the Peregrine Watch the sun and wind were playing tricks with the foliage around the banana tree, so it looked as if a group of Peregrines was flitting around the tree. I didn't have my binoculars this morning so could not tell what was going on. This must have been tricks of the light and the clear blue sunshine. There was a cold breeze from the north.