Thursday August 5th

Colder today, the tide was coming in, but with a lot of mud still visible.   I'm surprised not to see any Redshank, they are not seen very much recently.   At the Peregrine Watch two birds were visible over in the yew tree, and on careful looking two more could be seen nearly opposite in the trees.  One in an ash, the other in a dead tree;  the latter Peregrine was moving around in the tree, and eventually disappeared from view.  I think that all of these are the youngsters, so I'd glad they are all surviving.  No sign of their parents though.
At Sea Walls I watched a youngster in a bright red helmet abseiling down the well used vertical face near to the Gully;  well supervised by experienced climbers, but nevertheless a brave young lady!  A couple more were lined up for the drop, an several were already down at the bottom of the cliff.