As it was a pretty decent day, I headed off to Portland Bill this afternoon. Main highlight was 11 Purple Sandpipers just south of the Red Crane.
The only other highlight was the over-wintering Chiffchaff calling in the Obs front garden.
Birds Recorded:
Cormorant
Shag
Kestrel
11 Purple Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Rock Pipit
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
A very confiding Kestrel with........
.............a leg ring.
Six Purple Sandpipers.
And on the platform above them another five.
Here are a few of them bathing in a rock pool.
And a close up of one of them
A very smart looking adult Herring Gull.
A Rock Pipit having a wash in one of the small rock pools
A Raven comes into land with a meal!!
A charm of Goldfinches with the PBO Lighthouse as a backdrop.
General Shots:
The Pulpit
Portland Lighthouse and the Obelisk
Ted:
With the wind in his hair, I think Ted is enjoying this walk.
Well he certainly is here.
