A wander down to the sea for the early this morning, but little showing other than 2 Gannets gliding majestically towards the east.
However a few flowers providing splashes of colour in the gloom with the pale lilac Sea Aster waving tall above the walls and the pale green Rock Samphire sheltering lower down.
As I peered over the Observation Point wall I saw the wonderful sight of a Peregrine Falcon perched just below. A quite superb opportunity to enjoy the subtleties of this amazing bird of prey. The bright yellow feet with jet black talons, black eye ringed with yellow and yellow top to the beak. The wind was ruffling the feathers showing a few brown feathers in amongst the slate grey back. What a privilege to get so close, the Peregrine just eyeing me occasionally as it turned its head.
Overhead a flock of 40 or so Meadow Pipits flew south, followed a little later by some Pied Wagtails. In the scrub of the gully a small group of 35 Goldfinches were twittering and tinkling drawing my attention to them, which then allowed me to spot the brown capped Blackcap hopping through the adjacent Old Man’s Beard.
Above me a Kestrel hovered in the air, a couple of feathers being twitch to keep it perfectly still as it searched for breakfast, with nothing spotted it turned to show the long tail and pointed wings as it floated further away.
The call of a Green Woodpecker alerted me to the yellow rumped bird, which also allowed me to see the Wheatear which was on the dry-stone wall.
A Roe Deer bounded out of the woods and across the field, the chestnut colour not quite blending into the duller background, that colour change will continue over the next few weeks