Falling tide - still 2 ospreys. I reached the shore at 0915 just in time to see the female flying up the Carew River carrying a fish, and pursued by a....rook. I paid it no attention at the time, assumed it was a crow, but judging by the photo it's a rook. The osprey carried on upstream in the Carew/Milton/Radford Pill direction until I lost her. I watched from the "private foreshore" for a while, and saw good numbers of curlew in the salt marsh plus whimbrel, greenshank, redshank, grey heron and little egret.
I walked back up the shore to see if there were any more ospreys, and sure enough a/the smaller male appeared from the direction of Lawrenny church. Had he been in the Cresswell river? He flew up the Carew River, high above the trees on the opposite side. He met up with the female well upstream, she'd presumably finished her fish, and I settled on Nikki's Bench to wait for them to fly back down river, which indeed they did - I was treated to the two of them circling together right in front of me, a scopeful. Eventually I lost the female but the male returned to settle on the usual tall post, where I left him.
