In the half-light a heard the call of a Buzzard beyond the silhouette of the tree lined track that passed Langton House. A second Buzzard eventually, and briefly replied, with a slight overlap in their calls. I felt the first spots of rain just before reach Durlston. Upon the offshore horizon there was rainfall and I then noticed that grey cloud had followed me east where there were vapour trails in the patches of blue sky between cloud.
Upon the ridge I felt the breeze and glimpsed a Magpie inland upon a dry-stone wall. As it flew west a Herring Gull mewed. Initially five, soon joined by another four Goldfinches also went west. Upon a bark less dead limb of Elder, Jelly Ear fungus clung. A silent male Blackbird perched at top a dense cover of scrub. After it fled it was soon replaced by another then a third arrived but metres away. Water droplets were yet to be shed from Bramble and Rosehip tendrils. At great speed with noisy wingbeats the dozen Racing Pigeons sped north. I had brief snippets of short Green Woodpecker calls.
Jackdaws chuffed with some eleven upon the wires beside a telegraph pole. At one point a band of thirty massed about the gully scrub. A charm of a further seven Goldfinches passed by added the briefest splash of colour. Where lighthouse road passed through castle wood, I noticed leaves still upon the few Cherry trees amongst the evergreens.
The rain poured down and bounced off the car park surface before forming shallow streams. It was not the best of conditions for the contractors who had arrived to improve the round the head coast-path stretch.