The bird of the day was a male Golden Oriole which spent at least an hour singing in the trapping area during the morning. The Patch continues to provide considerable interest with at least 22 Mediterranean Gulls, a first-summer Little Gull, an adult Roseate Tern and a first-summer Arctic Tern there along with the Mediterranean x Black-headed Gull hybrid (see picture on DBO website). An Arctic Skua also flew west offshore.
David Walker (from DBO website)
Grey Squirrels From Greyfriars visit the school grounds once the pupils have left in order to plunder the waste bins. In former times they have made do with a few brown apple cores.
Recently, however, the government has intitiated a scheme to supply all KS1 children with fruit on a daily basis and a good deal of it gets thrown away. Today, it was bananas and the squirrels have been gorging themselves. They delicately strip the pith from inside the skin before extracting the fruit which they attack rather in the way I eat sweetcorn.
There’s one out there now - if only I had a camera as good as Barry’s, I could post a heart-warming picture. The downside is that banana skins are strewn all over the paths. If I were to break a wrist, could I sue the squirrels?