It’s the first day of Meteorological Summer, and the weather is remaining fair with a westerly moderate breeze, so by no means a scorcher today! I start the diary off at the Learning Centre, many a Chiffchaff can be heard, and seen were Magpies, Blackbirds, Wood Pigeons, a Blue Tit going into its nestbox on the Learning Centre building, and a Wren made itself heard. Walking towards the Lighthouse path the Ox-eye Daisies and Birds-foot Trefoil are many, and the cuckoo spit formed by the Froghopper for their nymphs can be spotted everywhere. Onto the tarmacked path a Wren sings away in the scrub of Brambles, Blackthorn and Hawthorn behind the Walling Centre. Inside the Walling Centre, where we usually have our bonfires to get rid of any scrub cutting during the out of nesting season period, it is full of yellow flowers from what I believe is a plant called Black Mustard.
I continue the path onto lighthouse field, I spot and hear many birds here – Whitethroat, Crows, Goldfinches, Jackdaws, Skylarks, Dunnocks, and a Herring Gull, and there are still much yellow flowers from the Birds-foot Trefoil, Horse-shoe Vetch and Kidney Vetch. Down in the gully below the bridge, I stop at one of my favourite areas in the park to spot and listen to the birds singing away – fauna heard and spotted are Wren, Chiffchaff, 4x Humans, Blue Tits, Dunnocks, Whitethroat, Wood Pigeon, Magpie, Robin, Blackbirds, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, and in the background or above me I could hear Skylarks, 3x Linnets, Goldfinches, as well as the unique song from a Yellowhammer.
I continued my walk down to the lighthouse and past Tilly Whim. Down on the Clifftop trail it was the many seabirds and generalist birds that could be spotted and heard – of cause, there were the many Guillemots, stinky as I walk above their cave, a few Razorbills, as well as Fulmars and Herring Gulls. The Generalist birds spotted were a few Ravens, many a Jackdaw, Wood Pigeons and Feral Pigeons. Furthermore, there was also a Blue Tit amongst the Tamarisk, and Linnets, Goldfinches that flew above me from time to time.
Enjoy your Sunday.