The Grey Herons on Marazion Marsh

Not so much feverish activity today and the way she's sitting well down would indicate that she may already have eggs to sit on.

Well ! they can't always be elegant !

Not too many folks on The Causeway this morning !

The whole beach to ourselves !

We've seen Wooster sitting in the lounge looking longingly down to the beach, where he can see dogs playing, so we took them down today, armed with a tennis ball and a new "wanger" as a fit dog like Wooster needs the ball to travel much further than we can throw - he had a great time !

The cloud was low enough to be touching the tops of the hills behind Penzance & Newlyn & and it was occasionally slightly damp during the day.

Whilst Jim took the dogs right down to the far end of the beach I had a look in the many rock pools, hoping to find an open anemone - there were hundreds on the rocks, but all closed. Still I found this lovely Coral Weed in one of the pools.

Very little helicopter activity in our direction at the moment, but this Merlin from RNAS Culdrose was doing a long hover out at sea whilst we were on the beach. I gather from Mike in Mousehole it was carrying out Sonar Dipping exercises !

It then came in towards us with side door open

It circled around and passed behind us with door now closed

Big turnout for one of the Surf Schools down at the Car Park this morning.

Since it had turned into a lovely sunny morning I took a walk down the side of Marazion Marsh - not much to see in the way of birdlife, but it was very pleasant and warm, so I sat on the seat for a while, hoping that a Bittern would appear - but it didn't.

Swan looking beautiful in the morning sun

An unexpectedly pleasant morning

As I arrived at my usual viewing spot along the road, I was really thrilled to see that a pair of Grey Herons are once again nesting in the little bush right in front of me.

Off for more nesting material

Nice long piece of nesting material

Incoming ! - he seems to have to build the nest around her as she never moved whilst I was there

Whilst the pair wrestled with the long twig, the interloper tried to land on the edge of the bush and missed - rather comical as it got in a bit of a mess for a few minutes

Still lurking nearby ! Wonder if it's after the lady or if it's just a "gooseberry"

It's nearly Spring and that means it's time for "Swan Wars"

Mainly just posturing this time - but I gather it had been more brutal earlier

As we walked the dogs a bright patch of sky appeared to the South West, but it got no better than this

A re-run of yesterday without the sunny bits !

A really dreary damp grey and misty day again, so I nipped out of the front door and took a couple of shots of our wall which is looking very colourful. These mini  Daffodils or Narcissi are only about 8" tall, but always give a good show and being so short are not blown down in rough weather.

Think that these Grape Hyacynths in our front wall are possibly a month earlier than usual

After this the third day of mist and fog in West Cornwall, it was good to see the helicopter heading back to Penzance - hope they managed at least a few flights.  Earlier in the day I think I caught sight of one of the Bryher Boat Services RIBs heading out from Penzance having brought some brave non-flyers from Scilly - and possibly taken some out to Scilly as well !

As we turned at Trenow Cove to head back towards home, I spotted the Mounts Bay training gig Lady Susan out in front of us - they're already transporting gigs over to Scilly for the World Championships in early May as they have over 100 to get over there they need to start early !

Mousehole looking strangely bright in the mist this morning

Unfortunately by the time I got to Trebarvah Farm the sun wasn't on The Mount any more

Sadly the fog and mist never cleared from the far West and the Isles of Scilly and the forecast is possibly for more of the same tomorrow.

Spotted quite a few Teal on the Long Rock Pool as I drove past, so stopped to take a couple of shots

Long Rock Pool this morning

A little touch of Spring down at Marazion Marsh

Dramatic clouds in Mount's Bay

A Cormorant standing on one of the little islands

and then it swam away

The sun was shining on the golden fields below Ludgvan

As I turned away from The Marsh the sky behind The Mount had changed again

Afternoon walkies to Trenow

The Kestrel eyeing up the fields in it's usual patch as we walked past

Finishing the day, much as we started with Mousehole in the mist and it's forecast to be much the same tomorrow

Looks like Petal and Blossom are going to be great pals !

Brave Wooster has been to the Vets for his booster injection, which fortunately does not seem to have dulled his inquisitive nature - there's bunnies, foxes and badgers on our little field, but they always hear us coming

Sorry for the rather "samey" photos - we've been rather busy lately and the weather is not helping - this morning was quite pleasant with some blue sky and sunshine and I was going to stop off at the Hayle Estuary to take some photos. Unfortunately as I drove back the sky was full of big dark clouds and I knew that my camera wouldn't get any good shots in those conditions. By late this afternoon it had got even darker, so we went off to the woods - the dogs love it there, so no complaints from them !

Not a bad morning with some sunshine, sadly I had to stay at home to sign for a delivery, so Jim took the dogs out to the fields above Trenow

All around this area are the spoil heaps which are evidence of the huge amount of mining that went on in times past - fortunately most of them are now covered by greenery !