"Nice South Easterly will keep the tourists at bay", says I. "No chance", say the tourists, "It's high tide and the beach is underwater".
Its amazing how much noise people can make! Still, the Ravens were in attendance above the cliff which bears their name, and as I head through the gate I pick out a common sand feeding along the shoreline; unfortunately everything else had tucked itself well away in the scrub; I could pick out chaffinch, wren and black bird, and my brave little sedge warblers were still bringing in food for their brood.
The pair of carrion crows were again at the picnic table, doubtless doing well from the days visitors, and 7 oyster catchers stood sentry around the rocks. Apart from that, the real interest lay offshore; the wind carrying past a stream of gannets, shearwaters, shags and common gulls, which joined the evening flight-lines of black-backed and herring gulls moving south.
It wasn't long before the south easterly did me in and I slunk off to the house.
Totals
- Raven - 2
- Carrion Crow - 2
- Wood Pigeon - 2
- Blackbird
- Wren
- Chaffinch
- Sedge Warbler
- Common Sandpiper - 1
- Curlew - 1
- Oyster Catcher - 7
- Shag - 6
- Manx Shearwater - lots!
- Gannet - 12
- Common Gull - 3
- Herring Gull - 1 ad, 4 juv
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