Daily Diary

I arrived to the screech of a Jay and Martins flying overhead. The later skimmed scrub a tree cover seeking flying ins...

Headed down the clifftop the full expanse of sunshine is revealed, alighting a calm blue sea. Not a breath of wind ble...

The ground unusually was covered in the thick damp dew, the water droplets twinkling in the sunlight. Skimming low ove...

Another bright sunny early morning for a patrol, the clifftop drawing me in today. The numbers of small warblers flitt...

Staring in the Bird Hide, I spot a Robin, Dunnock and a female House Sparrow close by to the bird feeder. Further into...

A strong westerly breeze blowing this morning, as I headed into it a small number of Swallows swooped past flashes of ...

I arrive at Durlston with overcast skies and hardly any wind. As I change my shoes and move within the car park, I hea...

There were showers this morning such that the rain gauge read 3 mm. Mistakenly I picked up my sunglasses rather than s...

With the bright sunshine and blue skies, a stroll down to the cliffs seemed a good option, below the water flat and bl...

Heading out into the strongish breeze blowing from the south-west, the skies above me were dotted with Swallows and Ma...

A foggy morning with just a few hundred meters of visibility off the cliffs until the sea meets a wall of white cloud....

A grey morning, the sound of a Wren trilling from the low growing Privet as I headed towards the woodland. The Wren po...

With Swallows swooping across the patchwork of white cloud and blue skies, a definite feel of autumn creeping upon us,...

The sound of a Robin as it sung from the top of a chunk of haw laden Hawthorn. Above me Swallows were swooping and jin...

A brown blur hurries across south field, as I head through the gate, turning it reveals its white fluffy tail, like a ...

I could feel a nip in the air this morning as I set out down the winding road towards Anvil Point. Much of the grass...

A wet rainy morning stretches out over the park, with 18mm having fallen in the last 24 hours. The clay on the surface...

This morning had an autumnal feel to it, however, occasionally the sun pieced through the cloud. I experienced a brief...

Down to the clifftops where a constant flittering and twittering of Swallows and Sand Martins was to be found, as they...

A beautiful sunny morning with bright sunrise over the water looking out from the woodland coast path, the sun shining...

A wonderful windy start to the day with the west-south-westerly wind turning the sea to a churning mass of grey and wh...

A very autumnal feeling morning this morning, with a fine drizzle coming down across the park, though still rather war...

A grey morning – haven’t had many of those over the last few months – and a breezy westerly, encoura...

The first of September bringing an Autumnal feel to the early morning, the light a little lower, producing a more gold...

Heading into the meadows past Roses heavy with rose hips flopping into the path, passing the Brambles covered in black...

The weather shifts as the Earth tilts further away from the Sun. Shorter days, latening sunrise. South-westerly winds ...

Rain and lots of it! Heading along the top of long meadow where Fleabane is a drooping from the weight of the water on...

This will likely be my last Daily Diary as an Apprentice Ranger here at Durlston, not to worry however – there w...

During the night with an enormous clap of thunder and a flash of brilliant lightning came heavy rain, 7.1mm of it powe...