A beautiful mostly sunny morning yet a fairly cold feeling start – nothing abnormal for early February. The first thing I notice as I get out of my car are 2x Jay sitting beside each other on a patch of grass in front of a sign. I also notice the sound of many a Robin, and a couple of Magpies in the distance. Spotted here was another Magpie, Wood Pigeon, many Crows all over – flying above and on top of trees near the Learning Centre.
I quickly head into the Bird Hide to collect the old Binoculars in there – I quickly look out of the window as I grab them and see a Goldfinch and a Great Tit flying from scrub to scrub.
Heading for the Car Park I see a cheeky Grey Squirrel in the lower car park. I take the timeline trail, here I see a Magpie on top of some stones, and one is surrounded by Holm Oak, Ground Ivy and Stinking Iris.
I proceed to head left onto the Coastal Path, I see a Robin and a male Blackbird on top of the dry-stone wall, the Robin flies off, but the Blackbird flies up into a tree full of ivy seeming like it is playing around in there whilst making slight noises. Above me 2x Herring Gulls fly above me and Great Tits/Blue Tits sing in the background. Unfortunately, the brambles to the right of me did not have any small birds sitting and fluttering around in them like in past diaries.
I walk on close to the globe hearing a Chaffinch and seeing 1x female and 1x male blackbird, this is where I can start to hear the Guillemots making the beautiful unique sounds that show of their auk family genes, here Fulmars could be spotted, Shag, Greater Black-Backed Gull, and Herring Gulls, as well as Corvids such as Jackdaws and Crows all flying on the cliffs or above me. All this happening as the sound of Blue Tits sing away to the right of me in the predominantly holm oak woodland with Tamarisk occupying its border. I thought to myself this is an amazing ecotone right here between woodland and coastal cliff habitats – then the sea!
I had to then rush back, as time was getting on – Have a beautiful Sunday!