The Long-tailed Duck was very confiding this morning – pity I didn’t have my camera. This morn it was between the sails and the locks end. However the yellow high speed ribs were doing circuits full of screaming girls and insisted on doing high speed water-borne donuts as close as they could to the barrage shoreline and thus the bird, creating waves that were breaking over the wire meshing there. Obviously the LTD is a sea duck so waves wouldn’t bother it but they were coming within 20m of it and when we walked back from the Cardiff end I couldn’t find it. Not much else – couple of Rockits, a Mipit and a Pied Wag.