A miserable wet day, with just one window of opportunity to get out for a walk, when the rain stopped for a couple of hours between 10:00 and midday.
Main highlights were 33 Rock Pipits at Church Ope Cove where there were also 2 Black Redstarts and an adult & juvenile Pied Wagtail.
Other highlights were huge flock of tits, crests and Chiffchaffs along the Railway Cutting, which consisted of 12+ Long-tailed Tits, several Great Tits & Blue Tits, 4 Chiffchaffs, at least 10 Goldcrests and a Firecrest. The latter heard but not seen. Also here were 7 Blackbirds (5 together in a May Tree) and 4 Song Thrush.
Here is a break down of the birds noted this morning:
Wakeham Wood: 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest and 5 Long-tailed Tit
Bottom Combe Quarry: 4 Greenfinch
Wakeham Railway Cuttings: 4 Chiffchaff, 10+ Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest, 12+ Long-tailed Tit, 7 Blackbird and 4 Song Thrush
Penns Wood: 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest and 6 Long-tailed Tit
Church Ope Cove: 33 Rock Pipit, 2 Pied Wagtails and 2 Black Redstarts
Mermaid Track: 1 Sparrowhawk over
Here are a few images from today:
Church Ope Cove, where today there were 33 Rock Pipits, 2 Black Redstarts and 2 Pied Wagtails.
Black redstart number 1.
And Black Redstart number 2, with a Rock Pipit in the foreground.
After a few days with just a handful of Rock Pipits, today saw 33 on the beach.
An adult Pied Wagtail and...........
...........a juvenile. Both on the beach
A Grey Squirrel along the Railway Cutting at Wakeham.
I'm pretty sure this is a Rusty Dot Pearl moth, which I came across in Wakeham Wood.
Vineyard Snails on Penns Weare. And thousands of them, though many are empty shells.
Mammals Recorded: Grey Squirrel
Birds Recorded: 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, 33 Rock Pipit, 2 Pied Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin, 2 Black Redstart, 12+ Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 8 Chiffchaff, 14+ Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest, 23+ Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Goldfinch and 4 Greenfinch
Moths Recorded: 1 Rusty Dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis)
Wasps Recorded: German Wasp (Vespula germanica) and Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)