What a beautiful sunny day, certainly a pleasant change from the rain and gale force winds we've had here for the past week. So it was off to the woods again to check on the Yellow-browed Warbler and though the Long-tailed Tits were about, the warbler wasn't. As I made my way down to the cove via St Andrews Church a Great Spotted Woodpecker was heard calling from below the slope.
As I followed the path down I came across another flock of Long-tailed Tits with the Yellow-browed Warbler leading the flock. Also here were 2 Firecrests, 3 Goldcrests and not for the first time 2 Chaffinches. The flock moved up the slope towards St Andrew's Church and disappeared over the wall.
As the flock moved away I made my way down to the beach. No Black Redstart, that's long gone now, just the "resident" wagtails with the pair of Pied Wagtails and the Grey Wagtail. There were the usual Wrens flitting about on the beach and also 9 Rock Pipits. On the north bank of the cove I also came across 2 more Firecrests. They do like it here.
Also on the beach was a Whelk egg case. Just the one here, though if you went to Chesil Beach you would find hundreds washed up, after Storm Eleanor.
Here are a few images from today:
Rufus Castle from Church Ope Cove
Looking south along the beach.......
.......and north
A Raven puts the breaks on as it comes into land.
A very large and powerful corvid.
A male Great Tit sends out a warning.
In the Hebe a White-tailed Bumblebee
The male Pied Wagtail looks on at the........
.......female catching flies.
One of the 9 Rock Pipits on the pebbles.
And another.
This is the "resident" Grey Wagtail
Quite at home here next to the sea.
Empty Whelk egg case.
Also 1 White-tailed Bumblebee on the Hebe.
Ships Today
This the Antigua Barbuda, cargo boat the ARMS Saimaa on its way from Kiel, Germany to Loviisa, Finland. More on this General Cargo vessel Here.
Wakeham
In the neighbours back garden this afternoon a pair of Collared Doves.