An extra early start this morning as I met some local climbers and tech guys who are helping to diagnose the problem with the cliff camera. As they were down the cliffs, I sat on the top of the cliffs watching the birds.
On the water over 150 Guillemots, sometimes in a straight line, sometimes in groups, a constant growling coming up from the ‘bazaar’ (as its called). In amongst were Razorbills, tapping beaks as they pair up, 52 of these much blacker birds counted this morning.
A superb opportunity to watch the Fulmars, four of these majestic ‘tube-noses’ skimming close to the rocks, cackling as they passed, at times almost close enough for me to touch.
Low across the water a Shag was carrying a dangly twig or pieces of seaweed, while another bobbed displaying its crest. Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls also gliding by.
A super view of a Peregrine Falcon as it dashed across in front of me, its swept back wings and back a blue-grey, as it turned I was able to see its yellow legs.
Some more flowers coming into bloom, with the white petals of puffy Bladder Campion alongside the thicker leaves and flowers of Danish Scurvy Grass.
Near the Lighthouse a Rock Pipit was displaying, fluttering down with its tail cocked and singing loudly, possibly to the other Rock Pipit standing on the rocks below.
A Linnet hopped from rock to rock while others were in the nearby Tamarisk.
Moving like clockwork across the path a Greater Bloody-nosed Beetle, as a flock of Goldfinches flitted from twig to twig, the weak sunlight catching the gold wing bars.