The Gadwall were very busy courting in the top picture, with an early morning bittern preparing to fly out to hunt, third was the turnstone hunting the high tide line for morsels of food in the gently falling rain. Fourth is a black headed gull screaming at a neighbour, fifth the clockwork mouse that is the sanderling racing along the tide line, sixth was a great black backed gull with an unfortunate flatfish he had just caught and finally a barn owl taken in terrible light early on our last day
