To continue the adventure in Pictures we prioritise by heading straight off to the
Wiine and Beer store where we will meet my guide
FOREST ROWLAND and his most able assistant BETH DAVY
before heading off for the
CLIFFS
Great Expectations here and there were to be no disappointments!
First up, and always nice to start the day with a 'Lifer'
CRESTED AUKLET
(just wait until there's one of them at
Portland Bill
similar has happened see below)
A FLOWER?
GREEN-WINGED TEAL
HARBOUR SEAL PUP
again we saw no adults
The Bizarre
HORNED PUFFIN
VEGA GULL
SNOW BUNTING
(male)
SNOW BUNTING
(female)
SNOW BUNTING
(juvenile)
Diverse Mosses
PACIFIC WREN
LEAST AUKLET
Then the moment I had hoped and waited for
on the Island
Already it was felt that a trip to the Far East would soon follow.
ROCK SANDPIPER
RED-FACED CORMORANT
There have been a number of vagrants from such distant shores
to have shown themselves in
Great Britain
such as Ancient and Long-billed Murrlet along with Tufted Puffin
but
what the American's call
Thick-billed Murre
and what we know as
BRÜNNICH’S
GUILLEMOT
has not only shown up in GB but on my former patch of
Portland Harbour - Dorset
This is the bird which stayed a few days, much to the 'Twitchers' delight
and seen and 'clicked' by me on 29/11/2013
As recalled when successfully twitching the Ancient Murrelet on Lundy Island 03/06/1990,
it was me who also observed "we'll never see the likes of that on our shores again"!
Why don't I just keep it shut?
As on the 11/11/2006 we travelled to Dawlish Warren, again in Devon to veiw a superb
Long-billed Murrelet
For those of you who are still awake we end this second part of the Trilogy
with a sight very few people are likely to have seen
Given the Distribution of this Bird
as we return to the
whiche were captured
displaying,
and
carrying nesting material........
