Yesterday morning one Wood Mouse was caught from some ten mammal traps set. It was shown to the Nature Nursey before being released.
At the vase of a Sycamore near the carparks were the beautiful white flowers of Wild Onion. In the dappled shade of the diagonal path a Speckled Wood of course fluttered. In the distance perched upon the lowest Mile Marker sat a preening Kestrel.
A Buff tailed Bumble Bee skimmed past a Stinking Iris flower and head for the blooms upon Gorse. At the base of the Gorse amongst Wild Madder, Bramble and Wood Sage was the distinctive zig zag of a basking Adder. The reptile was a good fifty centimetres aware from the diagonal path ready to disappear into cover if it felt threatened or too hot. Its head beside its tail meant its body was bent in two halves to maximise on the sunlight.
Of course, Jackdaws cackled, and Guillemots gargled beside the sea cliffs. Field Bindweed crept alongside the coasty path edge with white flowers and leaves like flint arrow heads in shape. Nearby a Dwarf Mallow was in flower showing what I saw as lilac flowers. Offshore ten Herring Gulls and Great Black Back Gull headed west following pot fishing vessel FY851 which unusually had three persons on board. Meanwhile, more noisily under motor and sail sloop “Feisty Fox” also headed west.
Upon Lighthouse Green, three Meadow Pipits hunted for insects upon the short turf. It was hear that I saw my first Cinnabar Moth and flowering Bee Orchids of this tear. Inn a cluster of fifteen some ten stems flowered upon the short grassland.
I closed the gate to shut the Herford Cattle of the green and notice a Roe Deer approach the electric fence from the un-grazed side. Whilst the mammal could easily have jumped said fence it clearly realised the grass was indeed green on its side! I saw two but believed I heard three male Stonechats near of the scrubby margins of the green. Plenty of Small Blues both the dark drab females and obvious blue males were seen with a good selection beside the coast path below the Lighthouse. A Wall Brown basked on the bare soil of Ant Hill that showed sign of excavation. What a splendid morning… welcome to June and the Summer!