It was not especially windy this afternoon but that did not stop a very big tide creeping up on us. It completely sumerged the saltmarsh and overlapped the Victorian seawall and the lower platform adjacent to The Garrison...
I snuck out and took some low level shots. So much plastic rubbish still down there.
Thankfully there was no ummph behind it and it soon dropped without making much of a splash...
All the Snipe, Rock Pipits and Reed Buntings were dislodged from their homes but I was too late to see if any small rodents made it to safety but the gulls were still ominously lurking...
Otherwise it was the main marsh that stole the show today with a near continuous spectacle of swirling Lapwings, Goldies, Dunlin, Starlings and duck to keep you checking for a predator and it was quite a good day for those too with two Marsh Harriers, three Buzzards and a couple of Peregrines out and about.
'Nature's Biscuits' on the move! - Tony Orwell
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Howard Vaughan, Information Officer
Great shots but how awful to see so much rubbish. I wish more people would stop and think a bit more.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.