Tuesday 14th October

A very grey looking Peregrine flew into the banana tree. He remained still in the tree, facing the river, for the rest of my stay. His flight was almost like a Pigeon, with fast wing beats. Most unexpected! A little later I mistook a Pigeon for another Peregrine. Ahh me! There were a large number of gulls in groups along the river mud, I expect these are Black Headed Gulls, but as yet without their fine brown heads. I spotted a couple of Redshank just under Sea Walls, and a quartet of Cormorants (in formation), flew rapidly towards the docks. They outpaced the Portway cars some of the time.