Woke up today to calm, mild (and dry!) conditions. First sighting was of 5 Blue Tits (a record?) visiting my tiny back garden (7 Long tailed Tits had scouted along the boundary fence on Thursday).
Managed out along the river in the early afternoon. Lots of birds about (and a big Red Fox scavenging along the "tideline"). Water levels now well down on where they were earlier in the week (as evidenced by the "strand line" just a metre from the gardens in Moulin Crescent). Lots of detritus scattered right across the Moulin playing fields.
Birding highlights were 40 Fieldfares in the treetops, 40 Black headed Gulls taking worms from the football pitch, 5 House Sparrows at the old farmstead, a Cormorant upriver, a Blackbird tuning up and a Moorhen (not very common round here) skulking in what is left of the riverside vegetation.