Nature through the eyes of my camera

Some of the many colourful beach huts at Walton I hadn't been out with my camera for a while so as it was a bright sunny day I headed for Walton.  A higher than usual high tide was expected so I was hoping to get some photos of the water coming over the prom. More beach huts I was a bit late for the best of the waves but still managed to get some water images. Looking back towards the pier As I walked back towards the car I was able to take a few shots of the Sanderlings and Turnstones as they gathered food from the beach as the tide retreated. Return to Index  

  I visited Levington Creek today as the tide was coming in as I wanted to try and photograph some of the wading birds that gather here at this time of year. Widgeon Although Widgeon do breed in the UK in small numbers, they are best known as winter visitors when there can be several hundred thousand of them.  They are usually with us between November and March.  They prefer mudflats and coastal grazing but they can be found on inland wetlands and sometimes feeding on agricultural land. Curlew I heard the Curlew calling long before I saw it by its evocative call. It is the largest European wading bird, recognisable by its long, downcurved bill, brown upperparts, and long legs. Curlews tend to favour estuary mudflats as a feeding grounds. The number of Curlew in the country increases considerably in the winter  as European Curlew join the residential birds. Lapwings While watching the Curlew I heard the call of the Lapwing as a flock flew over on the other side of the bank.  The rounde