Titchwell
Avocet (Recurvirostra avocetta)
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Eider (Somateria mollissima)
Just superb out in the bay and everyhting so close because of the low tide.
Velvet Scoter - male
Great Crested Grebe
Red Necked Grebe
Long Tailed Duck
Goldeneye
Red Breasted Merganser
Brilliant and in glorious sunshine with little wind.
Back on the sand some superb patterns.
View towards Thornham
Docking
Starling (Sternus vulgaris)
Thousand of Pink-footed Geese in the fields in the morning.
Great Yarmouth
Common Gull (Larus canus)
Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus)
Down on the Marshes
View towards Thurlton Marshes while standing in Thorpe Marshes
Looking toward Waveney Forest
View across Limpenhoe Marshes towards Reedham Ferry
View across Limpenhoe Marshes from Wherryryman's Way
The iconic Marshland Steamship - SS Sugar
New Buckenham Marshes
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Peregrine
Fieldfare
Pintail
A superb Male Hen Harrier
Cromer
Cromer Cliff just below the Lighthouse
Hart's-tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)
The tideline at the bottom of the cliff
Felbrigg
Ginkgo
Two lobed
Linaean
Leaf
A
living fossil
from the
Permian
270 million years
ago
Always
thouggh they were Gingko
but
no
although apparently
it can be
Japanese
gin kyo
'Silver apricot'
Clonel 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 getting the rain.
A snaking red sea weed line on the pebbles.
and
Just further along a Blakeney
Beautiful squat little things but sadly the Latin name comes from
Sgatorola - a Venetian name for some kind of Plover (according to Wikipedia)
But a search for Sgatoral garnered zilch.
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatorola)
Grey
Blakeney Point
A morning of contrasts with quickly changing light.
The sun breaking through cloud cover behind me.
and then to the left
which then transformed
But ahead this lovely layer of cloud hanging in the air
Lots of Blackbirds on the way out in the Sueda. Continental presumably but impossible to see the scalloping.
and then the best of rainbows.
Which became a double one.
A sensuous calm to all this
Ripples in the sand
The old boat about a quarter way out stood out this morning with
some glorious colours and patterns to be found in its senescence.
Purple Sandpiper poking about in the rocks.
Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
Starfish (Asterias rubens)
Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Salthouse
Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Overy Marshes
Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina)
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
also
a
female Scaup
Aythya marina
on the
Holkham Park Lake