Christine's walking & birds blog

Just after this I was caught in a violent shower of rain/hail/snow, and didn't bother to look for the scoters. There was one common scoter present on the 20th.

Also seen on my walk of the 20th: a rock pipit, one of several on the beach/camp-site.....

.....a cormorant on the river bank......

.....and I wonder what the diver and the Eiders were looking at?

Whatever it was, the diver made its excuses and left....

Otherwise - we seem to have lost our seed-eating blackcap and there is still no sign of the brambling, which must have moved on. Life itself drags on, or passes by, from day to day - but one reason to be cheerful is that someone relatively intelligent and normal has replaced the idiot in the White House.