The Cormorants have been missing the last couple of mornings but returned with a vengeance when 3,400 went out on mass down the river early on (this is just short of our record count from last November). Glorious, frosty, winters morning. 3 Turnstone and the camera shy Rock Pipit were along the river bank, 2 Stonechat on the Butts & the overwintering Goldcrest in the observatory compound.