Wed 6th Jan

Catherine had been on the phone this morning to say that the Little Egret was in one of the fields down below the visitor centre over at the reserve at Gruinart yesterday, and had a rather forlorn look about it! Donald James commented to me today that the Woodcock of late have lost quite a lot of body condition, so it is just as well that the shooting ban has come in, especially as there appears to be no let up in this spell of weather.