Dorset Delights

Some positive movement as far as 'HITS' are concerned but would love to see that magic '4-Figure' sum return?? Don't be shy, please pass the link on to others! Thanks in Anticipation!

With total absence now of any sort of 'dawn chorus', replaced by beautiful

SKYSCAPES

and frosty ground, we did venture up north

IRRIGATION POND
more in hope than ambition

and unsurprisingly not a Moth to be seen, but all was not lost. 

A little late in publishing we had to trek to Weymouth for that now annual flu jab regular readers will not be surprised at the brief stop at Land End to view the

Little Belters

there by way of

YELLOW HAMMERs
but not surprisingly no Brown Rats! With the next stop being Lodmore we approached from the Avenue Road end in hopes of scoring a

BEARED TIT

of which we found but a single before heading for the shelter and booking

a couple of

COMMON SNIPE
en-route with the spectacle of the morning

being the large number of

GOLDEN PLOVER
A brief stop at the surgery for the afore mentioned inoculation and a couple of
'Smarties' for being such a brave Sailor, we headed for Portland where at the Bill there was little more than one of the resident

LITTLE OWLs

an equally lone
OYSTERCATCHER

along with those fabulous

over-winter visiting

PURPLE SANDPIPERs
and the continuing story of singles a

TURNSTONE
Such a visit would be nothing without popping into the Lower Lighthouse that is the
PORTLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY
and to meet up with only the Warden Martin Cade, recently returned from a bird-ringing visit in Kenya. About the most interesting of many, many conversations with the man and as a welcome cherry on the cake, as it were, the brief arrival of his Right Hand Lady (Assistant Warden) Jodie. The flood tide at Ferrybridge seemed to have brought little with it save for what looked every bit to be an all to distant

KNOT
(the image having been plucked from the archive) - Manana!