After the spring and summer blitz on jigsaws over the first lockdown and subsequently, a winter hiatus was broken with this above, one of a two-pack purchased from Age UK the day before everything shut for LD2.
A short car outing yesterday (within reasonable Covid rule distance) on a suitable tide, saw virtually nothing from the harbour mouth, neither grebes, divers nor sea duck and only few distant waders. Moved to the sea front where it seemed as if all the town's dog walkers were out and the prom and beaches covered in people. The walk to the furthest east of this hideous eyesore of a site took ages at such a slow hobble with just 60+ Sanderling for company, being continually moved along the shoreline by an endless stream of pooches!! Other birdlife was pretty much nil and, unsurprisingly, no obvious signs of the previous day's Black Redstart. However, both Little Owls were at home roosting 30 yards apart in the recesses in the old fort wall albeit typically motionless.
