November 2024
Very Quick Round up
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| Heading out for a walk |
Very dull grey, grey and relatively-mild, to start the month.
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| Little Egret |
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| Starlings and a crow |
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| Faraway Cranes feeding in the gloom |
Now seemingly-commonplace, bright Egrets (Great white, Little and Cattle) drew the eye on dull days.
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| Little Egret |
I popped in to make some close sketches of the cranes at Pensthorpe, and enjoyed watching the social behaviour of the Flamingo flock as I did so.
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| The most delicate legs |
Rambles to the beach at sunset and dusk were greatly rewarding.
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| Gulls flying in to roost |
Pink-footed Geese seemed low in numbers at the coast; although one night, I heard them flying over.
Brent Geese were also gladly observed.
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| Brent Geese |
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| Heading out for a walk |
Pears ripened, and so I made my traditional pear crumble. No Catillac pears were available, and my Doyenne du Comice tree is still immature, but I fortunately found a Comice glut which I fully exploited.
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A thin layer of frost greeted me on the 18th. A very cold clear night on the 19th gave me a sharp view of Orion rising in the south east, wonderful to see again, and the Plough bright in the north.
The 20th brought snow, the first it seemed for a long time -- I can't remember any snow from 2023.
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| Snow falling |
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| Norwich |
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| Norwich |
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| Turning to winter |
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