I come out of the Learning Centre realising what a chilly yet fairly beautiful morning it is, yes there is a lot of cloud, but this is particularly high. I am baffled by the high amount of noise coming from the left of me, I realise it is the bird ringers today, so I turn left out of the LC and head towards Boys brigade field with the aim to head to the small woodland and Taskers.
As I pass the bird hide I notice the bird ringers are hard at work, I hear Chaffinch, Linnet, Goldcrest, Great Tit, and Long-tailed Tit, I continue on towards the gate, and I hear a Crow and Jackdaw Quirking in the distance, I decide to stop towards the gate and use my Merlin App to see if there was anything I didn’t pick up. Passed the shrubs of Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Brambles and so on my Merlin picked up a Yellow Browed Warbler, a species of bird just passing through during the Autumn period – I was excited about this! However, I was later told by the bird ringers it was just them using sound to influence one into the ringing site – so this was false reading from the Merlin app.
I head into the next field, continue walking, I spot a Field Maple with a Robin singing, as I waited there two Meadow Pipet’s swop around playing with each other landing on the Field Maple – Probably not to the delight of the Robin, and then they swoop away again.
I pass another gate and into the Boy Brigade field take my Binoculars and see clearly the Isle of Wight, the Solant, Hurst Spit, Milford on Sea, Fawley Oil Refinery past that, Hengistbury Head, Christchurch, and the eastern part of Bournemouth, then Bournemouth was hidden by Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks.
There was so much more I sore in the walk from two female Pheasant to an unidentified butterfly that was too far away to identify and so on, however one must get to the castle.