Afternoon on thursday found me on my local patch of Langdon Cliffs,winter can be a barren time here and it was only my second visit of the year.Pleasantly warm and sunny, skylarks were singing,but little else on the passerine front as yet.Nearing the cliff edge the first thing to catch the eye was my first butterfly of the year,a peacock which I assume had overwintered in a cliff crevice.
PEACOCK
Sitting alertly on the cliff face this PEREGRINE FALCON was on the look out for lunch.
Fulmar petrels were doing the usual wheeling and dealing along the cliff top and the resident herring gulls have taken up their territories once more,what beautiful birds they are in the right setting.
FULMAR PETREL
This pair of HERRING GULLS have held this outcrop of chalk for several years.
There are several colonies of JACKDAWS along the cliffs and they are very active and vociferous at this time of year.
The new jewels in the crown at the moment are the RAVENS which have returned for the third year to hopefully breed successfully again.
BACKLIT RAVEN
LIVING ON THE EDGE
Another new jewel in another crown is the SPIRIT OF BRITAIN, P&O Ferries new flagship.
SPIRIT OF BRITAIN leaving Dover for Calais,certainly large and functional but not particularly pleasing aesthetically!
FULMAR PETREL
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