A Pied Wagtail loitered around the mown grass of the Learning Centre whilst two Robin held verbal machine gun fire at each other. Hidden from view I heard a Song Thrush tapping on an Anvil so to release a snail from its shell. Later I saw another Song Thrush with its beak laden with a feast, patiently waiting either me to disappear or its partner to vacate the nest, before enabling it to feed its young. For a short while a Kestrel hovered near the quarr.
Off shore one Gannet headed east whilst pot fishing vessel FY851 raised pots whilst being followed by half a dozen Herring Gull. Jackdaws lingered about the cliff tops with sea mist obscuring views to the distance. I only heard a male Stonechat, however, it was Great Tit galore near Lighthouse Bridge. I managed to observe a family of six of a family forage! I could not help but be amused by someone having placed a dry Cow pat on the bridge parapet, I am sure someone might tried to have imaged a pooping cow perched up there. From the bridge it was difficult to see the noisy birds (other than three passing Goldfinches) thanks to the carpet of Old Man’s Beard. However, the severed stem of the later elsewhere provide a swinging perch for two Great Tits.
Bristly Ox Tongue with it rough warty leave, stood at my waist height upon the bridge from such meagre soil! Finally I got to see the two Bee Orchids beside Lighthouse Road through the gully, sadly one stem had been damaged so the flowers were failing. I venture onto the ridge in search of Mullein only to still find five dead dried stems from last year in their usual quarry hollow. I reflected, as the sea mist form just below the ridge the drifted inland, how ineffective the Napoleonic signal station would have been on such a conditions. In Centenary Meadow I was most taken by an strong stemmed upright vetch which appeared to be Dyers Greenweed, despite being yellow in flower.
Despite the lack of sunshine and the presence of a breeze I saw five Meadow Browns and four Small Blue on the wing. Rapidly a Roe Deer Doe disappeared into the scrub having briefly appeared into view upon a ride. Later more calmly a Rabbit calmly crossed my path also into the safe cover.