Showing posts with label Sizewell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sizewell. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Surf's up!



On the beach at Minsmere

Looking towards Southwold

The great British (?) tradition, the sandcastle

Ringed Plovers fleeing from the bank holiday crowds

Sizewell at 6.34 am. The Kittiwakes were screeching already

Darren tried seawatching but didn't see anything except butterflies...

Red Admirals (and a few Small Tortoiseshells) were crossing the North Sea (presumably from the Netherlands). This one made landfall on a nice warm metal NT sign


Can you feel the sand between your toes?

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

Suffolk heathland


Hobby hawking for dragonflies

Grayling basking on gorse

gorse

Robin's pin-cushion gall, made by the wasp Diplolepis rosae


Gorse and blackberries

Marsh Harrier - not a very heathy species, but it was flying over it!

Robin (without its pin-cushion)

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Minsmere and Sizewell

Redshank

Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus arborea

Juvenile Moorhen

My first-ever equine digiscoping - Konik pony colts grazing the reserve

Six-spot Burnet Moth at Sizewell

The beast itself...

digiscoped photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece