Just pictures

[Aquaboy]

Entering the Backwaters Friday evening

Inshore at Wrabness

and Saturdays sun set

 

[johnalison]

How not to take a sunset - no foreground.

Mostly dunlin and the odd godwit

And a third one from yesterday's club walk along the Colne

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I like No3

 

[johnalison]

I like No3

I think there is something of the Caspar Friedrich about it. Hand held at 1/8 sec but it was darker than shown.

 

[Habebty]

I think there is something of the Caspar Friedrich about it. Hand held at 1/8 sec but it was darker than shown.

I had to look him up, but yes, only with less mountains ?

 

[johnalison]

I had to look him up, but yes, only with less mountains ?

We don’t get much choice in Essex.

 

[Nauti Fox]

Cuxton yesterday evening.

 

[Aquaboy]

Friday heading for the Deben

Kirton Creek Saturday sunset

and Sunday morning off Ramsholt

 

[Kukri]

May 2014, courtesy of Cathay Pacific.

 

[tillergirl]

I thought it was you that caused all that noise pollution! PS. Good piccy.

Imagine, if the new nuclear power station is built at Bradwell, the whole of the area to the right of the old PS would be occupied by the new one; the whole of all the farm land and old airstrip.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Giant outboard bit keeps getting bigger

 

[Aquaboy]

For those missing familliar sights.....
and they are still digging holes out there

and

Sunset over Trimley.......again.....

 

[johnalison]

A couple of one of my favourite duck, from behind Titchmarsh yesterday morning.

 

[Black Diamond]

Ah, the northern pintail, excellent à l'orange. What's your recipe, John?

 

[johnalison]

Ah, the northern pintail, excellent à l'orange. What's your recipe, John?

They look tasty but unfortunately were miles away. My picture was hand-held through a telescope. There were maybe around sixty of them. I usually see them at this time of the year but they seem to move on in the new year. There are always plenty of shelduck. I imagine they have some meat on them.

 

[Leighb]

They look tasty but unfortunately were miles away. My picture was hand-held through a telescope. There were maybe around sixty of them. I usually see them at this time of the year but they seem to move on in the new year. There are always plenty of shelduck. I imagine they have some meat on them.

I have on the good authority of a friend that you absolutely do not want to eat Shelduck. He said they taste of dead muddy fish as they feed on small crustaceans and invertebrates in the mud.
He shot some when he was a lad in Pin Mill a very long time ago and found out the hard way that they are inedible.

 

[Black Diamond]

The same diet as the grey mullet, another species adapted to taste disgusting to predators! The recipe popular with the Tollesbury bon vivant is to poach the grey mullet in a tin foil jacket, afloat in a bath of dry white wine, enriched with tomatoes and herbs, with just a hint of garlic. When the ensemble is cooked through, discard the mullet and enjoy the fumet de poisson.

 

[Black Diamond]

Couldn't resist slipping the shackles of small business today and rowing up to the Strood at the top of the tide.

 

[Skellum]

RHKYC Shelter Cove yesterday.

 

[GunfleetSand]

Walton Channel mid September