Park run volunteers busy themselves setting up for this morning’s event, as I pass through the car park. The rising sun shining off the still water down in Durlston Bay. A Painted Lady Butterfly flutters past landing on a Hemp Agrimony flower head.
Down in the dell dark red Fushia flower pop out of the mass of green Mares Tail. The remaining flowers on Buddleia attract several butterflies to their sweet-smelling flowers. On the other side of the bridge small birds’ flit in all directions from tree to tree. In the large Sycamore laden with helicopter like seeds, nearly ready to fly off, Great Tits and Blue Tits flit amongst the branches. The call of a Chiffchaff pulls my attention to the higher branches where several of the small birds can be seen.
On caravan terrace several Gate Keeper Butterflies flit form one fluffy flowering Hemp Agrimony heads to another. A lone Small White Butterfly joins them, its bright white wings making it stand out against the pale pink flowers. A woosh of wings as a Peregrine Falcon swoops past and out of sight round Durlston Head.
Round Durlston head where I spot the Peregrine again, soaring along the tops of the cliffs, before disappearing out of sight again round anvil point. Several Jackdaws and Herring Gulls laze about on the various ledges along the cliffs, though for the most part the cliffs are quite this morning.
Tamarisk branches droop down covered in tiny fluffy pale pink flowers, gently swaying in the light breeze. Round the corner before the dolphin hut bright yellow Ragwort lines the seaward side of the path, bringing a pop of colour to the path.