Yesterday a few of my birding pals and I were involved in a Gull Roosting Count for WWT Slimbridge. It was a beautiful late afternoon with the scrapes all iced of over. However, two hours standing around meant toes felt like ice I even had 3 pairs of socks on! At our station we only had 250 or so Gulls while just along from us they had well over a couple of thousand! We felt quite inadequate! Sadly we had to endure the Hunt galloping past – they will say it was trail hunting but the evidence suggested otherwise!

In the evening to warm up my Book Club met. We were doing Books of My Life where each of us talked about books from being very young through our formative years and beyond. A super evening with a really diverse collection of books from our respective lives! I do enjoy our Book Club discussions!