But It's A Bank Holiday..?!?

And yet the Sun shines.


It is all hot and so on, like it is actual Summer, with blue skies and everything..




I don't understand. Bank Holiday = rain. School holiday = more rain. This is known.





Anyways.. I was about the Patch and inevitably down at the Nose first thing this morning, in the vague hope that it hadn't been all clear and birds-fly-straight-over.. Ho ho. To add insult to injury, looking north, I could see lovely mistyfog from the Exe eastwards.. Bah.


Before the mounting humid heat [seriously, it's a BH.....] drove me off, I had a good look about, and found a few Chiffchaffs, some of which might have been moving.

I may have resorted to photographing unbirdy things, though. And I must of course inflict said Things upon your eyes;

Plant sp. With pretty dangly flowers.

Also with Hairy Bee sp.

Hemp Agrimony

Hoverfly sp.

Another Woodpig bites the dust

"Have you seen Harry? He was here a minute ago.."

Juvie Woodpig

Ok, technically we are into birds.
The sea [you can't get away from it] was calm and quiet, but I caught the odd seabird;

Gannet

Fulmar!

Also in flight...

And the reflection!

You can clearly see what this is, right? :)

It was lurking along The Mounds and we saw each other simultaneously, alas. ComSand isn't a Patch Tick, but getting one on film..  :D

Speaking of waders, you can see 6 of the 7 present in this one;

Being uncharacteristically quiet

Speaking of The Mounds, messing about in the brambles along with assorted Stonechats was this;

Nice pose

Got me going for a minute, anyway.

Early on, there were still birds going over, with some vocalising nicely, most notably a Yellow Wag. Also along those lines, when I got out of work a Tripit went over calling - it being still dark so definitely audiomig there - which was a first for there.


And finally...

Turns out a Robin can swallow a golf ball..

Be Seeing You..




[[One day there'll be a Yellow Warbler. One day.]]