Titchwell
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
Black Tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa
Teal - Anas crecca
Redshank - Tringa totanus
Avocet - Recurvirostra avocata
Eider - Somateria mollissima
Just superb out on the bay and everything so close because of the low tide.
Velvet Scoter - male
Great Crested Grebe
Red Necked Grebe
Common Scoter
Long Tailed Duck
Red Throated Diver
Goldeneye
Red Breasted Merganser
Brilliant and in glorious sunshine with little wind.
Back on the sand
Amazing patterns in the sand on the beach.
View towards Thornham
Docking
Starling - Sternus vulgaris
Pinkfeet - Anser brachyrhynchus
Early morning thousands of Pinkfeet in the
Great Yarmouth
1st Winter
Mediterranean Gull - Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
About 25 beautiful birds on the sea front between the Piers.
Stunning
Down on the Marshes
Looking towards Waveney Forest
View towards Thurlton Marshes while standing in Thorpe Marshes
View across Limpenhoe Marshes near Reedham Ferry
View across Limpenhoe Marshes from Wherrymans Way
Cantley Sugar Beet Factory looking majestic in the sunlight.
The SS Sugar.
New Buckenham Marshes
Wigeon - Anas penelope
Peregrine
Fieldfare
Pintail
A superb male Hen Harrier
Hanworth
The buff tips on the greater coverts means it was this years bird.
Robin - Erithacus rubecula
Cromer
Hart's Tongue Fern - Asplenium scolopendrium
Solarized
Tangled, densely packed and stunted sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) on the cliffs at Cromer.
The view halfway down the path.
With a last few leaves.
And the beach at the bottom.
The tide line.
Felbrigg
Ginkgo - Ginkgo biloba
Two lobed
Linnaean
Leaf
A
living fossil
from the
Permian
270 million years
ago
always
thought they were Gingko
but
no
although apparently
it can be
Japanese
gin kyo
'Silver apricot'
Clonal reproduction
v
slow growth
large seeds
late reproductive maturity
An
ecological paradox
Clearly not a native British but this one is tucked away next to a Tulip tree in Felbrigg park.
Aside from field Mushrooms
it's
time to learn
Salthouse
A lone branch stranded on the shingle.
Sheringham was getting the rain.
The snaking red seaweed tide line on the pebbles.
and just a bit further along the coast at Blakeney
Beautiful squat little things but sadly the Latin name comes from
Sgatorola a Venetian name for some kind of Plover (according to wikipedia)
Further research impossible as Sgatorola isn't searchable.
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola
Salthouse
Stonechat - Saxicola rubicola
Wigeon - Anas penelope
Black Headed Gull - Larus ridibundus
Blakeney Point
A nice morning of contrasts and quickly changing light.
The sun breaking through the cloud cover behind me.
and then to the left.
Which then changed to this.
But ahead this lovely layer of cloud hanging in the air.
Lots of blackbirds in the sueda on the way out.
Presumably Continental
but
impossible to see the silver scalloping.
And then the most spectacular rainbow.
Which became a double one.
To the right.
Then to the left.
Two pots of gold this morning.
With about 60 or more Snowbuntings flickering on the shingle.
A covey of Grey Partridge
and
a
Hare
A sensuous calm to all of this.
Ripples in the sand.
The old boat about a quarter way out stood out this morning with some glorious colours to be found in it's senescence.
A Purple Sand Piper - Calidris maritima clattering about on the stones.
and in
Black & White
or
and in
Black & White
Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
Grey Seal - Halichoerus grypus
Starfish - Asterias rubens
Holt
The most superb birds. About nine feeding on a Rowan Tree in Holt.
Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
Overy Marshes
Isabelline Wheatear - Oenanthe Isabellina
(info from Birdguides)
Dazzling in the sunshine
Spectacular
35
Golden Masked ShoreLarks
Eromophila alpestris
Footling about on the salt marsh
at
Holkham Gap
watched for a good half an hour before they flew off over the trees.
Adult males, females and Ist winter
also
a
female
Scaup
Aythya marina
on the
Holkham Park Lake