A gloomy, mild day with no wind. The last walk around the patch this year. On the way via Endeavour I notice more Greenfinches than usual. A Woodpigeon balances on thin branches trying to reach the berries of a small rowan.
Just by the allotments, a mixed flock of Linnets (top shot) and Greenfinches. Linnets have been scarce this year in the patch.
Linnet.
Greenfinch.
Mixed flock of Linnets and Greenfinches.
I count 10 Linnets, which is a record for the site. It's two hours past high tide. The gulls are bathing in good numbers. I count three Great Black-backed Gulls, but more arrive one after the other until there are 6 adults and a juvenile, enthusiastically bathing. I'm starting to believe that the Great Black-backed Gulls have come this year and weren't there last year. After their bath, they fly to the roof of an industrial warehouse at the other side of the river, out of the way. Two Cormorants are sitting in their usual floodlight and mast.
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