Thick fog across the park this morning, everything still and quiet and not a lot to spot.
Out across to the meadows, in Smithfield the Hereford Cattle were grazing, their large brown and white bodies emerging from the gloom.
The squawk of a Jay alerted me to this member of the crow family, a flash of blue just visible as it flew gently through the mirk.
The black and white Magpies also in evidence alongside Carrion Crow emerging from the Black Pines of the Copse. Overhead the noisy croak of a Raven caught my ear, but upon looking up it was not visible through the cloud layer.
Later by the cliffs the Jackdaws were swooping acrobatically in and out, so all five of our resident Corvids spotted today.
Every now and then a splash of purple noted amongst the grasses and this turned out to be the small flowers of Lesser Knapweed, along the ridge on the downs a few pale blue Small Scabious flowers are still to be found.
The wet conditions have brought a few of the molluscs into view with Discus Rotundatus, Lapidary Snail (Helicigonia lapicida) and the small spiral Cochlicella acuta on the cliff edge.
The twitter of a Rock Pipit drew my eyes from the ground to enable me to watch 2 of these slightly greyish Pipits flitting, landing and flying along the rocks.
Below the waves were thundering against the rocks producing a swirl of white froth above which a few Herring Gulls were flying.
In the woods the sounds of Goldcrests could be heard as they moved in the tope od the branches of Sycamore, Holm Oak and Hazel, while in an Elm a Chiffchaff was seen.