First of the longer posts;
A resupply trip was a shameless excuse to get up the top end of the Patch and have a look for sheltered bits which might hide who knows what.
It was all very civilised, meandering through the coastal woods, peering at cliff faces in my continuing hopeless quest for a Wallcreeper, and trying and mostly failing to get camera on tweety bird...
Into the Woods...
Ivylicious!
So much so, this is
an actual freestanding Ivy Bush!
Also a little WWII archaeology
[with coffee cup for scale!]
The Window On The East
Yes, that cup gets around. Longquarry Point and beyond that, the Nose and the Ore Stone.
A wee drop, there
Petitor Point
Looks like a Basking Shark, to me
Grey Seal
Let's see some birds,
Coal Tit
[I hit something eventually]
1w Herring Gull
[Showing absolutely no 'interesting' features!]
[[If only they were all like this...]]
1w Carrion Crow
[Brown retained juvenile feathers]
Yup, real rarities there.. :)
On to Blackball, what's to sea?
[Groan]
Pretty calm, for the wind strength
Red-throated Diver
W/pl adult
[Nice 'capped' appearance]
White throat wraps right around the neck
[Unlike any other diver]
Of course, 1w are not the same, being variably dusky on head and neck, some even showing a WBD-like plumage [the bill of course, is a touch different, though...!]
This is the only one of the 9 RTDs present that came close enough / my camera would lock onto. Also a Great Northern and a Black-throat, plus a spp.; all of which were very annoyingly unphotographable..
Cormorant in full b/p
Likewise a GC Grebe
The other 53 stayed out in rafts like this one
Also of note, a group of Common Dolphins [At least 17, but too far north to catch], and a couple of these;
Harbour Porpoise
[about 100m off Oddicombe Beach]
And the inevitable
"Ooh, a camera!"
Grey Seals are all show-offs
All fun and games about the Patch.
Be Seeing You...
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