I went down to West Bexington for a morning's fishing in absolutely atrocious weather. With the wind howling, rain pounding down and huge waves soaking us, it was a rather miserable experience. We did manage to catch 8 mackerel and I saw common and little terns, gannets, cormorants, turnstones and the usual gulls flying past. After one and a half miserable hours, we decided to abandon and headed over to Portland. Driving past Radipole, I spotted little and great crested grebes, mute swans, tufted ducks and gadwalls. As we got to Portland, the rain slowed and the sun appeared. We found whitethroat, willow warbler and chiffchaff heading down to the quarry. We then strolled down the headland and saw a flock of linnets and a single wheatear flying among the holiday huts. From the headland we hoped to see shearwaters and skuas, but could only see kittiwakes, razorbill, guillemots and fulmar.
Back at Hilfield a cuckoo was calling and there were several french partridges and buzzards around.
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