Cool morning compared to the last few days, comfortable shorts, and t-shirt weather without being too hot. Bramble bushes line the paths laden with black berries though they don’t taste as good as they did a couple of days ago. Entering south field, a Peregrine Falcon zooms low over the field and off towards Durlston bay with two Carrion Crows in hot pursuit. More Carrion Crows peck around in the recently cut grass or round the bottom of hay bales.
In the grass either side of the path Ragwort is just starting to go to seed, with fluffy seed heads starting to appear where once where yellow flowers. Honeysuckle and Field Bindweed wind there way round grass and brambles. White flowers with a pale pink centre give away the Bind Weeds location, while pale yellow trumpet like flowers adorn Honeysuckle.
Dog Rose bursts its way out of a Blackthorn, adored with bright red plump rose hips. A Common Carder Bee lands of a purple Knapweed flower. In oxeye the fluttering of Blue Tits catches my eye as they hop between patches of scrub.
Heading through the gate into field 6 the scrub seems alive with birds a flock of about 10 or 15 Longtail Tits bounce there way from one patch of scrub to another. On the top of the ridge looking out to sea a dark band of rain clouds is emptying itself over some boats.
The flash of a white tail flies past the unmistakable tail of a Wheatear, it comes to land atop a patch of Blackthorn, giving me the perfect view of this pretty bird. It surveys its surroundings giving me a perfect view of the striking black band across its eyes making me think of ninja.
Walking back up light house road it starts raining filling the air with the smell of newly wet tarmac, though the shower doesn’t last long its very refreshing.