What a glorious morning, the rain pouring down, another 11mm deposited on the Park in the last 24hours.
The wind blowing at over 32mph constantly, making the rain drops feel like little daggers as they splatted my face. Still fantastic to be walking along the clifftops where attempting to pass me was a Shag, which was being stalled as it headed to the west, coming the other way at great speed, looking almost uncontrolled was another Shag!
As the waves were crashing against the rocks, a Guillemot emerged from the breeding ledge, where on inspection the flat rock was covered in well over 100 of these black and white Auks.
Floating on the grey water a large blob of seaweed, which must have been wrenched from the seabed by the force of the water.
Making less hard work of flying was a single Fulmar, the thin grey wings and white body, cutting through the wind.
Around the lighthouse and the calls of Rock Pipits could just be heard, and water was spraying powerfully up through the blowhole and over the cave ledges.
As I took a break sheltering behind a wall, just in front of me a Blackbird flew across between two patches of Blackthorn scrub and below this a Dunnock was perched.
A little slippery in places with the mud and puddles across the meadows and downs, but the footprints of a Fox showing very well in this, the thin shape quite distinct, as were the double slots of a Roe Deer.
Just a few splashes of colour spotted including he orange berries of Stinking Iris, the pale pink berries of Japanese Spindle and the bright pink of European Spindle, while in the woods Yellow Brain Fungus adds a patch of colour.