LOCKDOWN DAY 62 – COVID-19

Today, I stayed at home. I knew the coast would be crazy, with full sunshine and blue skies. My morning was partly taken up with assisting with something....... basically, some people decided to camp overnight at Walsey Hills, directly in front of the building! Breaking the law twice, once for trespassing on a closed nature reserve, which has a padlocked gate and a closed notice and for camping overnight, when no one is allowed to stay overnight anywhere right now. The area was checked out and no rubbish was left, unless of course they did a good job of hurling it into the scrub, maybe Emma (new Warden) will discover that over the next few days, hopefully not though. I obviously can't go into any more detail for legal reasons.

Extremely sad to hear that Wardens had to deal with "at least 12 BBQ's in the dunes, people constantly in the nesting cordons at Holkham, 30 people in the Wells seal enclosure..."Also that beach visitors took no notice of beach closed signs at Holme and parked on the double yellow lines (again) on the very narrow Beach Road and received £70 fines from wardens, but as I commented on Twitter, not high enough, make it £500 and they might think next time and the reports of today go on........ a group of people had a full size barbecue, positioned inches from the gorse by the seat at the top of Gramborough Hill at Salthouse this evening!!! They were asked to at least move to the shingle by a local person, which I believe they did, hopefully the police caught up with them. People also camped at Weybourne last night a local person told me. Also heard that there was a fight going on re a parking place at South Beach, Heacham!! Some people simply don't care, about nature, about others, about anything, except themselves.

I note we have a run of east winds from Wednesday this week and all the way through until the 5th June – I booked the wrong week off work (again)! I had the biggest amount of Starlings with youngsters I have ever seen in my small patio this afternoon – noisy, dominating the bird baths and kicking all the Blackbirds off the bird table! I was very interested to watch three Blackbirds join me to feed, when I changed the bird baths with fresh water – they wouldn't normally do that, but they obviously realised, that it was the only way they were going to be able to feed in peace for a short while. Worryingly I also watched a male Blackbird collect seed up in his beak and fly off – he did this several times, presumably because the ground is so dry and hard, that he couldn't get any worms for youngsters in the nest. Because of this I poured in a few watering cans of water into a patch of earth behind the patio – hopefully some worms will rise up for him. Back to work in the morning.

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