On the approach road a Jay flew for cover whilst a pair of Magpies loitered about the car park. A Carrion Crow flew up from the gas compound and took to the air travelling with the wind.
Cut Sycamore saplings revealed the fact that work had begun in reclaiming parts of the wooded coast path. Near the timeline a Grey Squirrel raced up a Holm Oak trunk then scampered along the lowest branch to disappear at its furthest reaches. However, I turned to discover another (or perhaps the same) Squirrel chattering at me from a fork in the trunk.
A pair of Carrion Crows departed from a parapet of caravan Terrace Bridge. I delighted in being able to see the previously hidden “waterfall” down the terrace rock face. In truth it was more of a persistent chain of water drops splashing onto puddles on the ledges below them.
The waves break off Durlston Head suggested it might be a morning to see Gannets. Upon Durlston Bay’s rocky shore line a white buoy had been washed ready up to be reclaimed. Great Black Gulls and Herring Gulls travelled westward along the cliff tops against the wind!
Key points where I and adjacent vegetation were buffeted by the wind were, Durlston Head, the Observation Point and the Gully Mouth. Tamarisk was constantly wind beaten whilst a dried stem of Teasel seemed to “shimmy, shimmy shake”. Upon the sea detached mats of Sea Kelp drifted. Whilst I had seen Guillemots leave the cliffs arch out and following the wind, I was surprised when I saw five upon the swell. A good forty plus of the seabirds occupied their cliff cave. Meanwhile, a pair of Fulmars flew in semi circles off the cliff face in their familiar way. A Shag put in an appearance and I finally saw a Gannet flying west as I approached the Measured Mile Markers. Anvil Point Lighthouse had its lamp in action whilst at the gully mouth below the blow hole sent occasional clouds of sea spray in land as it “exhaled”. Meanwhile, upon the wave cut platform at Tilly Whim waves hit the rock face and sent spray up vertically only to fall as a saline shower which created puddles on the ledge.
Near the walling centre I noticed the nibbled leaves and fronds respectively of Bristly Ox Tongue and Harts Tongue Fern. I suspected they had been Rabbit nibble and it made me think of Turnerspuddle Heath where there is both Gorse and Holly topiary created by rabbits!