Walking out across the meadows the flowers are looking fantastic with swathes of yellow Hay Rattle and Rough Hawkbit, while amongst them clumps of Bird’s-foot Trefoil are in full bloom. The Ox-eye Daisies are showing well, the white flowers turned towards the sunshine, tall and erect.
Nearer the ground many of the brown flowers of Common Broomrape can be spotted, this parasitic plant taking its nutrients from the plants around it.
The early summer orchids now coming into flower with Common Spotted Orchids dotted all through some of the meadows while the Pyramidal Orchid is a deeper pink and more triangular and currently less numerous.
Singing from the skies was a Skylark, the long song filling the air waves until it lowered itself, skimmed above the wafting grasses disappearing into the field, hopefully to visit its young.
Perched on the top of an Elder bush was a Yellowhammer, the bright head and body shape, making this an easy bird to identify while the chatting of a Stonechat from near the coast path was tracked to a male on the top of a yellow flowered Gorse bush.
Trundling across the turf, where Wild Thyme, Eyebright and Chalk Milkwort is flowering, were Greater Bloody-nosed Beetles. These large round beetles have a bluish colouration, especially around their joints.
The chestnut fur of a female Roe Deer caught the eye as she turned her head as she watched me walk up the path. She eventually bounded off through the gully and into the woods.
On the water the Guillemots were scattered, over a hundred noted while very few were on the top ledge. The piping sound of an Oystercatcher, caught the ear as it flew west, the black and white bird easily spotted as was its bright orange beak.