Before venturing out I look through the cliff camera to see one lonely Guillemot visible upon on the ledge. My brief coastal view had two Shag flying towards dancing ledge.
Half well down the gull steps I looked up to see a Kestrel, hovering near the overhead wires. The predator made a controlled gentle descent but may not have actually touch ground as it shortly rose upward on a thermal. At the light house road bridge I finally saw the Green Woodpecker fly up into Sycamore. Its arrival created a vocal response from a hidden Carrion Crow!
In south field I manage to capture by hand a female Great Green Bush cricket, to me most pale in colour but with a six centimetre long body it clearly represented a good meal for something! Today it felt as if Gatekeepers were the most obvious butterfly species on the wing. I even saw a mating pair land with their abdomen tips joined. Their clumsy fluttering continued amongst the sward. Today I had very clear views of Ringlet that rest upon a Bramble flower beside the Small Copse. This our darkest butterflies has been confused at times by many of us when seeing it on the wing recently with the similar Meadow Brown. I saw a couple of Walls and several Red Admirals with the best presence being upon the Buddleia beside the centre. Marbled Whites were seen sipping nectar from scabious
Above the quarr I heard rustling and was surprised to see a rather young Roe disappear into the scrub. I waited in case an adult appeared, however, ordinarily an adult deer runs of distracting attention away from the juvenile.