Friday afternoon dog walking for Mrs B. A lovely circuit , most noteable for the huge numbers of birds: a tree full of cormorants on an Eyot; a bridge of Pigeons; a pigeon-filled tree opposite The White across; an army of seagulls; a smattering of swans, coots, moorhens herons and geese; and a robin.

No vultures and no ominous feeling of impending doom.