Late evening Pinkfeet (Anser brachyrhynchus) at Cley

Tags: Pink-footedGoose

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

Tags: Landscape, LittleEgret, Black-tailedGodwit, Teal, Eider, Avocet

Starling (Sternus vulgaris)



Thousand of Pink-footed Geese in the fields in the morning.

Tags: Starling, Pink-footedGoose

Common Gull (Larus canus)
























Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus)

Tags: MediterraneanGull, CommonGull

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

Tags: Landscape, Wigeon, SSSugar

Cromer Cliff just below the Lighthouse



Hart's-tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)



















The tideline at the bottom of the cliff

Tags: Landscape, Hart's-tongueFern

Robin (Erithacus rubecula)

Tags: Robin

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

Tags: Gingko

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

Tags: Landscape, GreyPlover

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)

Tags: Landscape, Turnstone, Starfish, Seal, PurpleSandpiper, OldBoat

Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)







Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)





Wigeon (Anas penelope)

Tags: Stonechat, Black-headedGull, Wigeon

Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Tags: Waxwing

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