Oystercatchers and Turnstones at Hunstanton

About 2 hours after high tide, the sky and rocks at Hunstanton were full of Oystercatchers and Turnstones returning to the shore as their feeding grounds were uncovered.

 

 

Fulmars and Gulls at Hunstanton

Our last day in Norfolk brought beautiful weather and the Fulmars on the cliffs were well illuminated including a fluffy chick.We arrived at Hunstanton a couple of hours after High Tide (and a very high one too) so the various gulls and waders were coming back to the shoreline to feed as the waters receded. Here Black-headed Gulls, Herring Gull and Common Gull.

Parrot Eyes

We are giving our two grandaughters a short break in a B & B near Kings Lynn. Unfortunately the weather has not been very kind, certainly not for  beach time. Today we visited the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park. The National Parrot Sanctuary have over 1000 rehomedparrots currently residing within the park with more than 100 species I got interested in the different eyes and facial feathers.

London - Recording Covid19 Docklands

My final post from the trip to London documents some of the signage for Covid19 tranasmission control and the practical desertion of the area - most are taken on the Sunday but it was not a lot busier as I passed through on Monday. The last image of the crowded feet, the antithesis of the rest of the images hopefully predicts the return to 'normality' one day.

Rebuilding Orchard Place, East London

There are cranes everywhere you look in the area known for centuries as Orchard place. I've included an old map of the area and an architects view of the finished development. I took a walk round this area last Monday before moving on to the Excel area of Docklands for my lift home. It is hard to remember the old docks that we used to visit as children but the map shows them clearly enough!! The reconstruction area includes Trinity Wharf which I visited some years ago - it is largely unchanged other than the large apartment blocks being constructed all round it. The Excel building itself looked forlorn with the car Park roped off and huge oxygen cylinders in place in case the Nightingale Hospital is ever required.