A miscellany of photos taken on our walk around Burgh Castle and Breydon Water on 10th June 2026. Enjoy
10th June 2026
🔼 A Roman wall, doubtless made with local hands, and certainly with local flint. But as for the mortar, Roman mortar was amazingly resilient to the effects of weathering 🔽 Berney Arms windmill, built in 1865 to grind chalk quarried from Whitlingham to make cement. It was converted to a drainage mill in 1883
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There follows flowers…
10th June 2026
🔼 One everyone knows, the wild rose, aka dog rose 🔽 but here’s one you might not know, broomrape, a parasitic plant; lacking chlorophyll it attaches to a host plant
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Before we hit Breydon Wall 🔽 A Little Egret fishes along the banks of the Waveney
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Flowers along Breydon bank…
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🔼 Black Mustard, looking quite compact. See next photo where the Mustard takes its more usual form 🔽 Poppies, poppies everywhere ⏬
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🔼 Love the floral community along this estuarine path 🔽 Pepperwort, finished flowering, now putting out seeds
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🔽 And yes, that is a butterfly lending colour to the Alexanders’ seeds
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🔼 You know the water’s clean with it supports a wide range of plant life. Here we see Water Crowfoot
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🔽 Included because I love this photo. Former over-used, neglected and abused working horses run free 💖
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That’s all for now. See Friday Flyers for butterflies and damsels
crispina kemp 
Great pictures. I lke the Roman wall and light house best. The bird is cool too.
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Thank you. Though that might look like a light house but it’s a windmill… you know, as in Old Amsterdam, with mice with clogs on 🎵🎵
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wow even better.
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Wonderful selection- I love that scene of the horses running free 🙌
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It was fantastic. We’re used to seeing the horses grazing, but we’ve never seen them moving to a fresh pasture. Great. The heavy sounds of horses on the run
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Wonderful selection, Crispina. I love that you know the names of everything!
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Thank you, Dale. It’s long years of learning. And when I don’t know (whatever it might be) I look it up. Ma taught me to do that, and provided ample books for me.
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And that’s a wonderful thing. I look up stuff, too… But often forget not long after!
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I’d never heard of parasitic plants before and that’s very cool. And the poppies are beautiful and… I’m feeling tired. I have to rest for just a minute.
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But there wasn’t a rainbow!
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We can only find that in our backyard.
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gorgeous
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Thank you, Wolfgang. I might yearn for the bluebell woods where I used to live, but I love the countryside around where I live now!
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Me too dear Crispina :3
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Ooh, that wall …. those horses …. just epic! Gorgeous pix!
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Thank you, Nancy. This is my doorstep, sort off. It’s a wonderful walk, through all seasons
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Ooh, all really interesting!
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Great photos Crispina.
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Finally a flower we have in common- wild roses- they are especially prolific this year too!
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