Port and Wey: 3 Jun 22

Bumpers Lane, The Cuttings Quarry and The Mermaid Track

What a lovely afternoon, though one of the climbers at The Cuttings is probably thinking the opposite, when he fell and dislocated his leg. The Portland Coastguard Search & Rescue team did a great job getting the casualty to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, where the Critical Care Practioners took over.

After watching the rescue and the helicopter take off, Ted and I carried on with our walk. It was a really warm afternoon and a bit too much for Ted, so I made it a short one. Main highlight was a Hummingbird Hawk-moth, which whizzed past be along Bumpers Lane, plus several Silver Y's along our walk

Peering over the cliff top I could hear a Chiffchaff singing from below in Penn's Weare.

Birds Recorded:
Buzzard
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch

Reptiles Recorded:
Wall Lizard

Butterflies Recorded:
1 Dingy Skipper
2 Large White
1 Speckled Wood
1 Small Heath
2 Common Blue

Dingy Skipper

Moths Recorded:
1 Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)
5 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)

Silver Y (Autographa gamma)

Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)

Hoverflies Recorded:

None seen

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Bloody-nosed Beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa)
Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)
Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)

Bloody-nosed Beetle

Swollen-thighed Beetle

Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Scorpionflies Recorded:
Scorpionfly sp.

Scorpionfly

Spiders Recorded:

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

Plants:

Eyebright(Euphrasia officinalis)

Eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis)

And a close-up of one of the flowers

General Shots:

The Air Ambulance looking for a safe spot to land.

Safely down and the crew are already at the scene and treating the casualty

The Critical Care Practioners and HM Coastguard Search & Rescue team, help a climber into the Air Ambulance. Apparently he fell whilst climbing at The Cuttings and dislocated a leg.