A cloudy, cool day, with a strong autumnal feel. It is an hour before high tide when I get to the playing fields and gulls are assembled in their roosts. Herring Gulls on one end, 21 of them, Black-headed gulls at the other, 51. There are a few scattered Common Gulls and a single Lesser Black-backed gull too.
Lesser Black-backed gull, Black-headed gull and Common Gull.
In the drain, a flock of Long-tailed Tits and Blue tits feed on the poplars, which are quickly losing their leaves.
Long-tailed Tit.
At the cemetery, a pair of Bullfinches and a Chaffinch were feeding on bramble seeds.
Male Bullfinch.
Chaffinch.
It's high tide and the Wilmington bridge is opening to let a barge through. As the bridge is completely open I scan the river wall and there is a Redshank roost, on the exact same spot they liked last year. I count six (top shot). As the barge goes through, and some workmen are on the wall by Rix, the Redshank vanish.
A barge goes down river.
The Redshank now awake.
A Pied Wagtail calls from Trent Aggregates.
A very wet cat by the drain. Looks like it fell or crossed the drain!
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