After a trip to the tip, it was a trip to the Bird Observatory and a walk around the quarry, huts and lighthouse before stopping off at the Crown Estate Fields.
Main highlights were:
Purple Sandpipers : 1 east of the Lighthouse and 4 by the obelisk
Rock Pipits: 12 recorded with 8 on Portland Common.
Redwing: 1 just north of the Crown Estate Fields
Plus:
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 1 flew north over the back garden when I got back home.
Mammals Recorded:
6 Brown Rat
Birds Recorded:
Cormorant
Shag
1 Buzzard
3 Kestrel
5 Purple Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
12 Rock Pipit
1 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Blackbird
1 Redwing
1 Song Thrush
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
A Common Buzzard in the Crown Estate Fields
A single Purple Sandpiper just east of the Lighthouse and..........
.............four more...........
....................by the Obelisk.
There were at least 12 Rock Pipits around The Bill. This one has a leg ring ACC. I will check its origin.
Red-hot Poker (Kniphofia)
This is a Red-hot Poker (Kniphofia) in the Obs Quarry and is supposed............
............to flower between March and November. More on this plant here.
