Shell beach at Mersehead A morning of sharp showers and billowing sunlit cloud over Mersehead. Alone in the hide at the visitors' centre, we watch birds feeding at tree-stumps spread with seed. Come to the dining table.
Yellowhammer call somewhere in leafy hedgerows merging with banks of vegetation spilling down to the path, providing the cover the birds need in the breeding season. Feeding the birds shows them in close-up and in detail. There are greenfinch, chaffinch, tree-sparrow and a stunning male yellowhammer.
Yellowhammer call somewhere in leafy hedgerows merging with banks of vegetation spilling down to the path, providing the cover the birds need in the breeding season. Feeding the birds shows them in close-up and in detail. There are greenfinch, chaffinch, tree-sparrow and a stunning male yellowhammer.
Cloudscape and the play of light and darkness over the shell beach at Mersehead is beautiful. Roe deer hide in the marraim grass of the sand dunes and we are accompanied by lark song. A red kite soars against sunlit cloud.
We hear lapwing on the merse and daisies grow thick in shell-sand that seems like machair, that fertile ground sheltered by sand-dunes. The white flowers of Burnet Rose are fragrant and a red admiral basks in the sun.
Mersehead is within easy reach of Whitecroft Farm and Rose Cottage where we are staying. It's a delightful spot and the evening light over pasture and low granite dyke is lovely. There are fine sunsets too. A great spotted woodpecker comes to the bird feeder and a dunnock feeds its fledgling on the lawn. I hear a distant cuckoo but cannot find him. The farm is sheltered by a thick beech hedge where small birds are nesting. Here and at Mersehead they're lured from cover to feed, giving us the opportunity to see the detail and colour of their breeding plumage.
We hear lapwing on the merse and daisies grow thick in shell-sand that seems like machair, that fertile ground sheltered by sand-dunes. The white flowers of Burnet Rose are fragrant and a red admiral basks in the sun.
Mersehead is within easy reach of Whitecroft Farm and Rose Cottage where we are staying. It's a delightful spot and the evening light over pasture and low granite dyke is lovely. There are fine sunsets too. A great spotted woodpecker comes to the bird feeder and a dunnock feeds its fledgling on the lawn. I hear a distant cuckoo but cannot find him. The farm is sheltered by a thick beech hedge where small birds are nesting. Here and at Mersehead they're lured from cover to feed, giving us the opportunity to see the detail and colour of their breeding plumage.
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