Amazed that we have stayed in Tier 2 here in Gloucestershire we were expecting to go into Tier 3 as numbers have been rising. Not that it makes to much difference to us as we continue to be sensible with what we do.

Today has been a busy day a bit like what it used to be! Out doing a Bird Survey on the River first thing. A slow start but it soon warmed up both temperature wise and birds. 133 Snipe and two Jack Snipes was a particular highlight as well as five Pink footed Geese flying over, a couple of hundred Lapwings looked wonderful flying down the River in the sunlight. Many other birds to make it an excellent morning. A high tide and the picture below is just before it reached it we thought we had better not hang around!!!

I have mentioned the Tides and the Bore before the bank in the near foreground is being significantly eroded and we note it each month.

I did a decent ride afterwards almost forty miles developing a slow puncture, that needed some air on a couple of occasions!

Tonight we had a resumption of our Quiz League via Zoom first match since lockdown in March and in our match we scrapped home by one point!

Incensed reading about  Rees Mogg’s comments on Unicef what planet does he live on? Well I can answer that a very privileged planet! Marcus Rashford’s humanity towers over his spitefulness!

Finally a Tier 2 quiz but on Children’s Books as I mentioned them in yesterday’s blog . Yes I know I did one before!

a) Who illustrated the Gruffalo?  b) Who wrote Where the Wild Things Are?  c) Which English City is where Philip Pullman anchors his Northern Lights Trilogy and subsequent Book of Dust books?  d) Where is Swallows and Amazons set?  e) Who does Lucy have tea with in Narnia?