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Sidestrand


Sidestrand beach this morning to look for Glaucous Gulls.

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A Little Bit of 'Cabin Porn' this morning.

Two marvellous cabins at Overstrand: one overlooking the beach.

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Pretty much the view from the cabin.

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and the other on the street.


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Two juvenile Glaucous Gulls - Larus hyperboreus

Glaucous from the Latin - ' a bluish-green or grey.

Larus from the Latin - probably - 'a gull or large seabird.'

hyperboreus is the Latin for 'northern' from the Ancient Greek Huperboreoi - 'people from the far north'.

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Black Headed Gulls - Larus ridibundus

and in the background

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Herring Gull - Larus argentatus

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Pink-footed geese - Anser brachyrynchus

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Winter heliotrope - Petasites fragrans

A member of the daisy family and a close relative of Coltsfoot apparently.
Sometimes known as Sweet-scented Coltsfoot or Sweet Colt's-foot.
Delicious marzipan scent.
It was introduced to the UK in 1806. It is
native to south-western and south-eastern Europe
and North Africa

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and

a

Red Admiral

on the cliff top






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