Wednesday 18th October

On Wednesdays about two dozen football pitches are set up on the Downs, this tends to displace the birds probing the grass to quieter regions. Coming to Sea Walls, I spotted a heron down by the drain outlet, he was still in the same position when I got to the peregrine watch (around 10.30am this morning). An alternate sunny and misty morning, with a low tide and lots of mud. I think the gulls on the mud and at the river edges, are common gulls rather than black headed, they have no black on their wing edges. Another heron flew along to the outflow,though I could not see where he landed.