A bright sunny start with on ominous roll of cloud hovering just above the sea and off the coastline. The sound of a Skylark singing loudly from above the meadows and the sight of Bullfinch welcomed me.
Towards the Lighthouse a sudden flutter from the Wild Carrot and a Willow Warbler took off only to land a few feet further down on the branch of a Hawthorn, allowing a much clearer look of this migrant as it begins its early return South.
With binoculars fixed to a call, I tracked down a male Blackcap as it flitter through the branches of an Apple tree, the fruits starting to swell.
The sound of a Stonechat caught my ear, drawing me towards the Gorse patch where a Common Whitethroat was also perched along with a couple of youngsters.
Basking on the bare earth was as stunning Red Admiral, in its red and white markings. Fluttering nearby was a Meadow Brown and the Gatekeeper.
As my early patrol proceeded the fog rolled in over me and the National Nature Reserve turning visibility to almost nothing!
Therefore I had to focus on the flowers of which there are many. Tall stems are topped with a greeny-yellow flower of Wild Parsnip, many of which have a web covering them of the Parsnip Sawfly. Careful inspection saw the almost caterpillar like grey body with yellow and black spots, crawling across the flowers.
Nearby were two Soldier Beetles on the Greater Knapweed and dangling from the underside of a Ragwort were two mating Six Spot Burnet Moths.
Low to the ground the Squinancywort still provides a carpeting alongside Wild Thyme, Restharrow and both Ladies and Hedge Bedstraws
Appearing through the fog were the Cattle, someone had unhelpfully left a gate open so they were in the wrong field, but as I walked a Pheasant emerged suddenly from the long grass, followed almost immediately by a much smaller one, both flapping up and over the wall to land amongst the cattle.
Last night the sounds of a Tawny Owl could be heard, while Pipistrelle Bats were in flight, Glowworms produced their magical eerie light and a Fox trotted across the path.