Messing about in the mud

This is one of a pair of Cormorants which was paddling along the muddy bank of the river until I arrived and then they decided to leave - jolly rude!

I had a chat with one of the many birders today who are looking out to sea where there are hundreds of Sandwich Terns and apparently in and among them is an Elegant Tern which is obviously having a bit of an identity crisis - or maybe it just fell in with the wrong crowd - either way there's a lot of interest in it!