We emerged from yesterday’s wet and soggy weather and I start the morning walk with Paul. Crocus and Primrose had started to flower on the castle approach road and Daffodils were in full flower around the castle entrance, signs suggesting that spring is on its way!
Witches Brooms (on Silver Birch) swayed in the wind and a single Robin sang from the top of the nearby Elm. Two Blue Tits hopped happily along the hedge line beside Long Meadow. Durlston Bay is still with a gentle swell and a single Shag glides across towards Peveril Point.
Off Durlston Head thee sun rose and peered through the wispy thin clouds, a few vapour trails mark the sky like pencil lines, bright against the blue sky.
Six Greater Periwinkle hid at the base of the Tamarisk on the Coast Path, while two Great Tits and two Blue Tits hopped along the top. The silhouette of a Shag floated past the cliff and a Rock Pipit followed the line of the gully and off out to sea.
The visible slate grey colour of two pairs of Fulmer swooped around the cliff edge, back and forth checking the ledges and possibly preparing nesting areas.
A Black slug was camouflaged on lighthouse road tarmac, while a Chaffinch follows us along the path back to the Learning Centre. A single Song Thrush sings a top the Hawthorn. Finally we saw a Green Woodpecker as it fly overhead towards the reservoir copse.