I got out my car and looked up just in time to see a Peregrine Falcon swoop past and head towards the cliffs. As I head through the wooded area towards the diagonal path going down to the cliffs, the trees around me sway aggressively in the strong winds. Leaves from a nearby Ash swirl by as the wind rips them form the tree.
From the diagonal path I can just see the tops of the mile markers where a Raven has come to land on the top of the top mile marker. Another one swoops past a the same time disappearing in the direction of the castle. Apart from these two Ravens a flock of Collared Doves swoop past as well a group of Goldfinches. A Peregrine Falcon loops around a few times above my head before diving down belove the cliffs.
I head up alongside the dell past the mile markers the wind coming off the sea providing a push from behind up the hill. A Hen Pheasant appears form no were battling the wind as she clumsily fly’s / falls to the bottom of the dell. While looking out across the dell Carrion Crows, Magpies and Jack Daws can be seen heading in their preferred direction with determination to beat the wind.
I pass of the light house road and through to the top of the field, where a big bouncy Dalmatian comes running up to say hi. As I get into oxeye a group of around five Herring Gulls fly through heading back to the sea from in land.
As I get to the far side of saxon a Skylark flies up from the ground and zooms off somewhere over a patch of bramble. Another simply flies up struggles against the wind for a minute before giving up and landing back in the same place.
I start to head back to centre as it feels like its going to rain. Of the far side of taskers, a flash of colour alerts me to the fact a Jay has just flown past disappearing into a patch of Blackthorn. As I get back and sit down to write this my suspicions were confirmed when it started to rain.