A grey day today, with a brisk northerly breeze and ten-tenths overcast but only occasional rain, perfect for a brisk walk along the coast to the north of us to see how Nature is fighting back after the recent storms - and she is, for beyond the jetty that sticks out into this small bay with its, usually sandy, beach is what must be called Cormorant Point, for it's where the local cormorants gather when the tide is low. Recently, with....
....so many of them killed in recent storms, we've been seeing fewer than ten gathered but today....
....there were at least twenty-six. Not that there's any sign of recovery in other species. I didn't see....
....a single living diver offshore though more and more of their sad corpses are being exposed as the kelp on the beach rots down. I think this one is a juvenile razorbill.
One species is back in unprecedented numbers - the rock doves we saw along here for the first time last year. They now form a huge flock, at least three hundred, which moves from the foreshore to the harvested barley field at the back of the beach each time it feels a need for some sustenance.
These rock doves are the cousins of the urban pigeon and, like their cousin, seem to be one of the few species here which is really thriving.
A grey day today, with a brisk northerly breeze and ten-tenths overcast but only occasional rain, perfect for a brisk walk along the coast to the north of us to see how Nature is fighting back after the recent storms - and she is, for beyond the jetty that sticks out into this small bay with its, usually sandy, beach is what must be called Cormorant Point, for it's where the local cormorants gather when the tide is low. Recently, with....
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