Sunday 20th April

Whilst it was a very grey and misty morning, the horse chestnuts trees on Saville Road have candle-like blossoms amid their bright new greenery. On the river a high tide with very little mud, just enough under Sea Walls for a solitary Mallard. I stood at the Peregrine Watch for around twenty minutes, there were no Peregrines, but the three young Ravens were clambering and flapping around their nest - fledged and about to fly. Two Swallows sped past me towards Sea Walls, I did not see them again, the red on their chests very obvious and their short tails probably showing that they were young birds.