Saturday 27 March 2010

14:00 Sunny intervals 9 o C. Wind w 13mph. Humidity 73%. Pressure 1005 mB. Visibility very good. High tide today 21:24, 8.74m



A fresh day, with a brisk west wind. The moorhen is still around. The swans seem to be starting a nest on the pontoons, near to where the terns nested last summer.



Albert Edward Dock
Blackheaded gull x 100
Lesser black backed gull x 20
Common gull x 10
Mallard duck x 10
Cormorant x 8
Coot x 5
Moorhen x 1
Mute swan x 2

Saturday 20 March 2010

12:00 Light Rain 9 o C. Wind N 8mph. Humidity 96%. Pressure 1000 mB. Visibility very poor. High tide today 13:40, 8.85m

What a difference a day makes. Miserable, grey, drizzle all morning, still feeling mild. Far more cormorants in the dock today, perhaps a sign of storms elsewhere. Fewer gulls though.

Albert Edward Dock
Blackheaded gull x 50
Lesser black backed gull x 10
Common gull x 5
Mallard duck x 10
Cormorant x 12
Coot x 4
Mute swan x 2

The garden pond is currently full of croaking frogs, the singing is so loud the double glazing hardly seems to muffle it. It's a regular Frog Chorus when we go outside.

There was a moorhen in the shrubbery this morning, eyeing the garden pond interestedly. I wonder if it's the one I saw in the dock basin earlier this week.