The sound of mooing to be heard across the meadows, the Hereford Cows are munching, giving the grass that grows after the hay cut a quick once over.
As I approached the sun shone down on their ginger hides making for a lovely sight, trotting around their feet were a scattering of Pied Wagtails, long black and white tails wagging.
Taking off from the ground flocks of Meadow Pipits, the sight and sound of their call making for relatively easy identification. Many more of these birds flying across the sky as I undertook my patrol.
Suddenly emerging from the long tufts of grass in Saxon Field were 3 Pheasants, looking tall as they strutted quickly across in front of me, their brown markings quite mottled and beautiful.
A few splashes of yellow dotted across the fields with the pale yellow of Common Toadflax showing very well drawing it to my attention, elsewhere the more golden composite heads of Rough Hawkbit to be seen.
Goldfinches galore this morning, a wonderful sight as they flitted and landed in the tops of the bushes, the sun catching the feathers to highlight the golden colours. They took flight as a mass, tinkling and dancing as they moved across the sky.
Down towards the coast, a glorious white winged Gannet flew past, skimming just above the grey churning waves.
To the east the sun was shining through a whole in the cloud, shafts of sunlight producing a ring on the water, after admiring this I turned around to look west to discover that the sky and the sea had joined into a dark grey mass. As I thought – look s like rain” it promptly chucked water from the skies, leaving me to shelter under a very pricky Gorse bush!!!
Perched on the white flowers of Old Man’s Beard was a Red Admiral, red wing flashes showing well against its dark background.
A few large Badger latrines spotted, the remains showing they are still eating Blackberries. Also last night Pipistrelle Bats were on the wing and a Tawny Owl was calling, at least until the heavy rain and lightning hit again.