Thursday 7th June

A very cold dull morning, not a time to linger. I looked at the peregrine nest from Sea Walls but could see no sign of the birds. However at the peregrine watch I saw the female come in twice (I was there for half an hour around 9am), though could not see whether she had any prey for the youngsters. The male was circling lazily in the middle of the Gorge for a while, then went in to the nest area. Two cormorants cruised high over Leigh Woods down river, a heron and another Cormorant went upstream near the water. On the Jackdaw Tree a curious site - two of the birds very close together, one with his head buried in his/her chest and in a kind of 'sad' posture, the other up really close and looking as if she/he was trying to console the other! Eventually, the cold drove me home to breakfast.