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
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.
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?
Herring Gull - Larus argentatus 
