It was another trip down to the cove today, with the main highlights being a male Great Spotted Woodpecker in Penns Wood and the female Black Redstart, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail plus just 2 Rock Pipits at the cove.
Overhead two Common Buzzards drifted slowly south, followed later by a Kestrel.
I could be wrong but it did look like the Long-tailed Tits were looking for a suitable nest site, just behind the huts. No nesting material was seen, but they were in the same area they nested two years ago. Time will tell.
There were a few hoverflies and flies on the flowering Alexanders.
Birds Recorded:
2 Buzzard
Kestrel
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
2 Rock Pipit
1 Pied Wagtail
1 Grey Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
1 Black Redstart
Blackbird
Long-tailed Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
One of the two Common Buzzards over the cove.
A male Great Spotted Woodpecker in Penns Wood.
A nice pose by one of the two Rock Pipits on the beach...........
...........a few seconds later it had a Kelp Fly in its beak.
A Grey Wagtail at the cove.
Black Redstart
Here are a few images and videos of the female Black Redstart at the cove, including two sequence shots where she flies up and catches a Kelp Fly.
Slow motion
Chaffinch
A very brief song by a male Chaffinch
Hoverflies, Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Hoverfly sp.
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Calliopum tuberculosum
Kelp Fly (Coelopa frigida)
Fly sp
Hoverfly sp.
Top to bottom
fly sp.
Common Dronefly
Calliopum tuberculosum
hoverfly sp.
General Shots:
This was part of the old Weymouth to Easton Railway Line, which ceased to be in 1965.
Ted on the trail of something he's sniffed out.
On the horizon is the Vehicles Carrier "Glovis Splendor" flying the flag of the Marshall Islands......
.........It is on its way from Pyeongtaek (South Korea) to Zeebrugge (Belgium). More on this vessel Here.
This is the General Cargo Ship "Edzard Cirksena" flying the flag of Antigua Barbuda. It is on its way from Rotterdam (Holland) to La Pallice (France). More on this vessel Here.
One of the local fishing boats "Girl KP" in Church Ope Cove. This boat was first registered in Poole as PO24.