As I started my walk this morning the wind could be heard rushing through the trees all around me, causing my hair to fly in front of my face and making it hard to see. I walk along the top of long meadow passing a Dog Wood that has started to turn a beautiful purple colour. I pass through to the top of the play trail where I admire the sun rising over the sea making the sea below glisten. Two Carrion Crows fly past becoming silhouettes as they pass by the rising sun.
I walk down past the dell which is being bathed is a golden glow from the sun. As I carry on down the steep path to the cliff top path, I walk through a couple of Robins having a conversation over the path. The only thing giving their location away is the constant song they are producing.
As I turn the corner at the bottom of the hill the wind picks up as the path becomes more exposed. Tamarisk gently sways in the wind, seeming to take the beating from the wind in its stride. As I get to a culverted viewpoint and lean over the wall to see if I can see anything, I quickly realise I need to hang on to my sunglasses to stop them flying off my head in the wind. I pass a Sycamore tree full of helicopter shaped seeds already to fall and form a new tree. Some do fall as I pass being picked up by the wind and spinning away to find their new home.
As I get closer to Tilly Whim a Peregrine Falcon can be seen hovering above my head, before getting ushered away by a particularly angry Carrion Crow. When I get to the mile markers, I start to walk along the edge of the dell stopping to watch a Stonechat and a Linnet hope around a Holm Oak for a while before heading on. Further up a Goldfinch passes by and disappears down into the dell.
I now walk along the top of the light house field where a cock Pheasant wonders out in front of me completely oblivious that I’m there. I wonder through into oxeye meadow where I spoke a Skylark who rushes up into the sky to sing about this newfound inconvenience I have caused.