Titchwell
Just gorgeous. No wind and subtle hues everywhere.
Out in the bay an amazing display
Long tailed Ducks - With males showing off to each other out on the water.
Common Scoter
Velvet Scoter
Goldeneye
Red Breasted Merganser
Great Crested Grebe
and
at least one
Great Northern Diver earlier in the morning.
A lone Snow Bunting also flew over.
Choseley
Looking South west from just down the road from the drying barns.
Over to the right a thousand or so Pinkfeet in the grey morning light.
Cromer Cliff
Fold and deposit patterns in the Cromer Cliffs
Rust patterns in the sea defences.
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
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
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.
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
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
Overy Marshes
Sunrise over Overy Marshes
Pinkfeet in their hundreds flying out to feed.
Curlew - Numenius arquata
A woodcock flew out just at the bottom of the boardwalk.
Sandering, Brent , Turnstones, Cormorants and a variety of gulls out on the sand
and the bouys
An Isabelline Wheatear was picking about on the grass.
A dim and distant Isabelline Wheatear - Oenanthe isabellina
and a very handsome
Northern Wheatear
Oenanthe Oenanthe
was very confiding
on the tide line on the way back.
(With grateful thanks to the photographer who found it)
Salthouse
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
The light changed so rapidly this morning. From dark to this last photo when the sun came out and bathed Salthouse.
He really liked this area for a while this morning.
Perching on the pole tops and eyeing the flies.
Dashing off, up and around - putting on superb display.
A little bit of preening.
Desert Wheatear - Oenanthe desert
Managed to get a bit closer today hence the number of photos.
He just wouldn't turn and look at us all standing on the shingle just focussed on the insects over the water.
Sea Aster seed heads - Tripolium pannonicum
The whole marsh is resplendent in these fluffy seed heads at the moment.
House Sparrow ( Passser domesticus) caught with it's mouth full.
Teal - Anas crecca
Jackdaw - Corvus monedula
Comma - Polygonia c-album
Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta
Almost falling apart from the rigours of the year.
and
a
Long Tailed Duck
Clangula hyemalis
from the
Babcock hide.
Salthouse
Stonechat - Saxicola rubicola
Desert Wheatear - Oenanthe deserti
Yellow Horned Poppy - Glaucium flava
A nice little party of Shorelarks (Eremophila alpestris)on the beech
and
a
Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
in the village.
Trimingham
From Trimingham looking towards Sidestrand
A lone Brent - Branta bernicla on the clifftop
Thorpe Market
View from Thorpe Market to Southrepps Church from a gap in the hedge at the end of Topshill Rd
Blakeney Point
A few Redwing exploding out of the sueda
One Redpoll
One adult Peregrine in the sunshine out on the sand
and
one juvenile chasing pigeons in the dunes
A Marsh Harrier
and
a
Kestrel
A superb windswept day.
Garden Drove
October Sunshine
The soft high peep of Goldcrests
as they flit through the sycamore leaves
delicately picking here and there.
A skylark practicing for next spring.
An explosion of Redwing freshly arrived from
Norway as they leave the berries behind.
Soft threads glinting in the sunshine from the
myriad of gossamer trails.
and the mellow hum of the flies and wasps
on the ivy.
As Mrs May and Mr Davis trample
on parliamentary sovereignty.
and keep telling us that
4%
was overwhelming
and
we
mustn't complain
those who were to
remain.
Add insult to injury 48% of the UK population are now being demonised by
the
Daily Mail
(Daily Mail 12/10/16)
In the original vote to join the EU there was a clear majority to join
67.23 % to 32.77%
on a
64.62% turnout
But notice the level of demonisation.
This is Civil War
Holkham Pines
Radde's Warbler somewhere in here. Phylloscopus schwarzi
Common Reed - Phragmites australis
Holm Oak - Quercus ilex
At least 3 Yellow Browed Warblers
Brambling a plenty flying over
and
goldcrests
Garden Drove
East Hills from the bottom of Garden Drove
Can you just see the flash of red as the Redstart flew along the hedge line.
A whisper of Goldcrests flew along the track
dinking about in the sycamores overhead.
to the accompaniment
of
one
"tseeweest"
superbly viewed in the sycamore.
But
not the
Red Breasted Flycatcher
of
which two turned up later.
Holkham Pines
Long Tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudates
Razor Shells - Ensis arcuatus
Alexander Mcqueen - 2001 for Voss
In McQueen’s Words
“My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful,
I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness
on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness
was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.”
WWD, September 28, 2000
From
Alexander McQueen - Savage Beauty
A more recent use of razor shells by Norfolk artist Liz McGowan.
Cromer
The last crab boat off the beach this morning.
Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo
Herring Gull - Larus argentatus argenteus
Cromer Ripples
Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
Still here this morning.
Still routing
But a little sleepier
with a bit more preening
in the morning sunshine.
