A very late afternoon walk around the "block", but there were some good highlights with a mouse under one of the metal sheets where I normally find Slow-worms, a pair of Stocks Doves in Bumpers Lane Quarry, a Great Spotted Woodpecker along the Wakeham Railway Cuttings where there was also a Chiffchaff singing.
Mammals Recorded:
Bunny
mouse sp.
This mouse was under one of the metal sheets, where I often find Slow-worms.
I kept very still and was able to record it looking at me.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
2 Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Meadow Pipit
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
A pair of Stock Doves in Bumpers Lane Quarry
Wherever you are on Portland, you will still hear Robins singing.
A male Blackbird and a........
.........female looking for food.
This Chiffchaff was calling and occasionally singing along Wakekam Railway Cuttings.
Its not just Robins singing, but also male Chaffinches.
A Goldfinch along Bumpers Lane.
Bees Recorded:
2 Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Plants:
Primrose (Primula vulgaris)
Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
Primroses
Ted:
Ted having a look over Penn's Weare........
..........until he decided it was probably too steep to venture down.
Ted's just realised I'm not following him down into the Cuttings Quarry.