How to Bowl a Maiden Over

 A summons to Dorchester for none Wildlifing reasons could not have been on a worse day weatherwise, and while the images may appear to show a fine front it was far from that!

YELLOWHAMMER
singular en-route did kick the morning off in fine form but from Monkey's Jump there was not a bird to be seen. Shifting down to

MAIDEN CASTLE
at first glance appeared to paint the same picture until a couple of

COMMON GULLs

appeared out of the ever increasing rain.

Apart from Black-headed Gulls not one of the hard won other species reached double figures with

LINNET

almost breaking the trend with a count of just 9

and

SKYLARK
checking in at c4.

It was a full hour before the first

GOLDEN PLOVER

put in an appearence

and then only c3.

However, there was a Bright Side to all of this as apart from the Black-heads

all othe specise mention were additions to the
Year List!

PS - how annoying then to find a report of 400 on the Dorset Bird Club Website the very next morning!