Christine's walking & birds blog

The Iceland gull brightened up a windy, rain-spitty sort of day, landing on the river and then emerging onto land to do a bit of preening. 

Yesterday, we walked the same round and saw an otter - and a song thrush. Song thrushes are often on the beach at the moment, probably searching the seaweed for food along with rock pipits.

Also yesterday: As we made our way along the bull park a flock of birds went over heading north - and too fast for me to get a picture. "Pigeons?" I wondered - but Greger said they didn't strike him as pigeons. Another possibility would be golden plover; we hardly saw any last year and the idea that they are on the move already makes the heart skip a beat.