The new year [solar, that is] started with what was almost a lovely sunrise
Bit scenic
Hail to the, er, cloud...
One year, one year...
Ahem.
"Hail to me, human.
And gimme yer sammiches"
Merry Christmas to you too...
With all the running-around done, I've been loitering about the Patch. Nothing exceptional found, but you keeps looking.
A few things;
Grey Seals
Just one or two
knocking around
Zzzzzzzzzzz
Up to 9 Grey Seals in the vicinity of the Nose.
A few Guillemots
on the Ore Stone, too...
Well over 500 Guillemots loitering on or by the Ore Stone on both the 24th and 25th [though all gone on the 27th]
Appeared on the 24th to myself and The Teacher, near but not with the 12 Common Scoter at the Buoy Farm.
Male Running Crab Spider
Philodromus albidus
Spider surprise! This chap tried to get a lift home with me after I'd given the sea an hour on the 25th.
Sea watching from first thing has shown large movements of auks [mostly Razorbill] with Gannets, Kittiwakes, and a handful of Fulmar south each day. Passage dies off quickly, and seems to be of birds roosting in Babbacombe Bay - sheltered from the sustained winds - then moving out into Tor Bay / Start Bay, or maybe further, to feed.
Wintering Great Northern and Red-throated Divers [with a Black-throated also reported] likewise.
RTD and a Guillemot,
heading for the Bay
I've been doing a bit of seawatching, but I'll save the numbers stuff for the near future, as I've a more seawatchy post planned, and feel like a little comparing.
All arty and stuff
Be Seeing You...
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