Yippee sunlight! I too had charm of Goldfinch greet me outside the centre as they flew over Ash, Sycamore & Willow. I skirted the edges of deep puddles and passed a few Field Scabious and Greater Knapweed flowers as I approached the Small Copse. Two leafless, but bud showing, Ash moved little in comparison the leaf laden Holm Oak. Beneath them the round leaved Winter Heliotrope sat dormant with flowers to come this season.
Whilst Jackdaws “chuffed” a solitary Magpie investigated a short turf well-trodden downland path. Some thirty Jackdaws were evident above the roadside woodchip plie. Through the downland the yellows of Ragwort and Bristly Ox Tongue flowers were enjoyed as plenty of Field Mushrooms speckled the downland. Up the lighthouse road cutting sides, bland dry Woodsage flowers stood contrasting with the yellow of Gorse flower orange of Stinking Iris berries and purples of Sloes and Yarrow’s white bloom. Healthy Privet leaves contrasted with the leafless branches of Blackthorn.
Beyond the upper gully, a flock of bird were of such a size that I suspected their being either Redwing or Fieldfare.
Upon Lighthouse Green I observed a pair of Herring Gull glide westward. Later another such bird, off the observation point, would perform two arks west before a bigger arc east. Back on the green one Yellow Wort stems head dropped in the wind a dry Dwarf Thistle flowers hugged the ground.
I took the rocky coast path through a carpet of Sea Beet and Sea Campion leaves. A forked tongue of sea spray was ejected from the two holes of the waterspouts at the Gully Mouth. Much froth was at the foot of the sea cliffs. Whilst sea spray reached above the wavecut platform without landing on it.
A solitary Golden Samphire appeared near Tilly Whim steps. Fresh basal rosettes of Teasel leaves were near the Adder basking site. Further along the cliff two such flowers’ heads, although mostly bald, retained some petals and had a Fly visiting.