Day off today, as the youngest offspring is down for a visit with his better half, so we headed to the Downs, was going to go to Kent to see the Sabine Gull but some people couldn't get up early enough!! Still a nice walk, nice to see some blue sky!!
Was a bit quiet on the bird front, a few Corn Buntings knocking around, Skylarks, Meadow Pipits and Linnets and the inevitable Stonechats, surprisingly few Raptors about with a single Buzzard and a couple of Kestrels, still the views off this walk are always good!!
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| Humongous Worm!! |
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| Linnet |
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| Meadow Pipit |
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| Shoreham, Brighton, Seven Sisters the views are quite good from here, impressed the visitors from Suffolk at any rate |
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| Stonechat |
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| Couple of Corn Buntings, saw several but none were in the mood to pose |
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| Red Admiral, several of these about, in November!! |
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| Herring Gull |
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| Distant Buzzard |
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| Stonechat |
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| Lot's of Starlings knocking about which occasionally would form a murmuration before landing on the pylons, couldn't see anything to explain the panic!! |
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| Common Gull |
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| Kestrel, teased us throughout the walk, but never came close enough for decent shots |
Shannon, the young-uns other half took some nice pics of the views, her pics below, she also seems to be obsessed with cows, which today at least were safely behind fences!
Some nice pics there!
One disappointing thing I noticed, where you walk the path, along the escarpment, the scrub on the hillside has been completely removed, this was a 20 to 30 feet wide area of bushes and bramble which ran for half a mile, when we visited in the spring it was full of Robins, Blackbirds and Dunnocks singing and would imagine it would have been a good area in which the farmland species would nest! I can't imagine why this has been done, the slope is too steep for any kind of farming, maybe for conservation reasons, don't know but the area has been devastated!!!
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| The single tree left standing seems like a complete piss take! It is like this for about half a mile! Where before it was full of Hawthorn, elderberry and other such plants! |
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