A selection of photos taken on our walk on 17th December 2025. Enjoy
17th December 2025
🔼 The best conditions for beach photography is within an hour of sunrise, with an ebbing tide, and before the dogs and their walkers leave their disturbed imprints. Ok, 1 out of 3 will have to do (ebbing tide) 🔽
17th December 2025
🔽 [I spy with my lens-eye] the sun battling with the fog giant
17th December 2025
17th December 2025
🔼 Dune flower…devil’s bit 🔽 Dune ferns
17th December 2025
17th December 2025
Marked by the mist 🔼 The sturdy red deadnettle in flower 🔽 Grasses can look like Christmas decorations when the weather conditions are right ⏬
17th December 2025
17th December 2025
17th December 2025
🔼 At the back of the dunes, gorse-scrub provides a perch for this sparrow 🔽 It is said the gorse flower blooms when there’s an ‘r’ in the month
17th December 2025
17th December 2025
🔼 Wonderful lichen (more of those next week along with some fungi) 🔽 And to finish our walk, a little local artistry
17th December 2025
I hope you enjoyed. More photos from this walk next week. Meanwhile, in case I miss you later, have a wonderful festive season, whatever your faith and creed
crispina kemp 
I suspect your ‘sparrow’ is a female or juvenile Stonechat, but I’m worried about its lack of white wing-patch… my second thought is reed bunting, but it just looks (and stands) like a stonechat 😀
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/stonechat
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Yea, I was undecided. And it is stonechat country. But, sparrow came to my fingers and so… I didn’t correct it
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The Christmas grasses are wonderful! is that ice or dew?
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It’s heavy mist, so I guess I ought to say it’s dew
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Lovely pictures Crispina. I love the birdie and the cycle.
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I love the bicycle! If it’s not a bike rack, it should be.
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