The purple patch was recording 13 Purple Sandpipers on the large exposed "flat" rock, to the east of the Pulpit. This is one of their favoured spots, however as it was low water, they could quite easily have been feeding at other locations around The Bill.
Other highlights were a lone Fulmar making its way east, past the obelisk and a Common Buzzard in the Crown Estate Fields. Both birds being firsts for the year.
Below are a few photos from my walk:
Just off the west cliffs here was this Grey Seal tucking into what was a very large Conger Eel
An adult Cormorant in breeding plumage
And the stars of my walk were these thirteen..........
................Purple Sandpipers which............
............were feeding just east of the Pulpit here.
On the QinetiQ fence was this male Stonechat and presumably............
..............his mate.
On the left the Red Crane, centre the Obelisk and on the right Portland Lighthouse.
