Bit depressing watching this evenings Countryfile programme on TV.   Seem that RSPB reserves on the |Kent coast are actively encouraging Cormorants who seem to be there in their hundreds if not thousand already.  Even try to improve fish stocks to improve the food fish available for the birds.    What chance have we got.!!

Also a highlight on the increasing difficult in re cycling plastic, especially the type use by farmers to
bind hay bales and the like.  Big stocks building in up in open field sites with seemingly no where to go.  No one seems to have an answer.

Looks like we could be in for a cold spell towards the end of the week and thereafter.  Had to happen really.
River low but in good condition.  No reports of much earlier spawning activity still.  WUF tight lipped as usual.