Author: [email protected] (Derek Grimwood)

It started early with a walk along Pickleridge at Gann, where it was good to see a female Goldeneye in flight – the first for a few years, lots of Pipits,Wagtails, to be seen as well as Gulls but the most obvious was the background. soundtrack of Corvids, most Jackdaws are “crowling” and there are thousands of them! Along the tide wrack, with surrounding trees high in the sky both near and far, my pictures can’t do the scale justice, a magnificent sight. I later cycled to Marloes Mere hoping to find the two Whooper Swans seen several times, my…