Cromer
Cromer Cliff just below the Lighthouse
Hart's-tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)
The tideline at the bottom of the cliff
Cromer
Great black - backed Gull (Larus marinus) & Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Cromer
It was in here first thing yesterday morning.
Not to be seen though.
Responded well to a recording
but
I forgot to switch my microphone
on.
Fleeting glimpses in the sycamore
and gorse later in the morning.
First thing this morning it was in the bramble and willow herb
just here.
Beautiful
Perched on a bramble
and
reached for the sky.
The recorder was switched on this morning.
Cromer
The last crab boat off the beach this morning.
Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo
Herring Gull - Larus argentatus argenteus
Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
Still here this morning.
Still routing
But a little sleepier
with a bit more preening
in the morning sunshine.
Cromer
Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo
Turnstone - Arenaria interpres.
Routing (flicking, bulldozing and pecking)
through the seaweed on the beach for small
crustaceans,gastropod molluscs and
in one of the pictures the odd fly.
Adults returning from - hopefully
a successful breeding season.
The last remnants of their summer plumage
showing dusky orange red in the sunlight.
Young ones less brilliant with small
dusky buff fringes on lower wing feathers.
The big questions
Where did they breed?
and
Where to now?
Starling (Sternus vulgaris)
An adult and three juveniles.
