The Fal ruan estuary at high tide just as the light was beginning to fade.
A tiny fern growing on the stone work of the oldbridge.
Two sedate mute swans paddling against the tide coming up to the old wharf.
This cob and pen made their way up river with the background sound of the calls of Greenshank and Blacktailed Godwit. Just a chorus of natures spectacular music.
It was so quiet that we could hear the swans snorting as they paddled by. A quiet muffled sound which is only audible when there is perfect silence.To anyone reading this from outside the UK - The reigning monarch (Queen
Elizabeth II) owns all the swans in Britain.
8.31 p.m. and almost dark. This was handheld I had forgotten to take a tripod and just couldn't peel myself away from this most wonderful place with nature at her most beautiful. To complete the evening a Barn owl flew over the marshes. We came home and couldn't bear to put the t.v. on so sat by the open window with hot drinks and the tawny owls began to hoot.
11 comments:
How beautiful, Kissa. Lovely photos. :-)
I didn't know the Queen owns all the swans in Britain. Beautiful birds! I could just hear the silence!
Lovely photos , especially that second one of the swans.
Cornish pasty!
Nothing quite like it, people think they can make the pasties over here, but it isn't "the" Cornish pasty.
Our oceans are different because of the color and depth of the sea floor. Great Barrier Reef being relatively shallow compared to some other (deeper)oceans, and it has very white or light-colored sand, which reflects the sunlight back up better. The combination makes the water a distinct blue color. (Also aqua, I'll post up the pics I took while working down the Great Barrier Reef). There are some beautiful shades of blue, almost a turquoise and a kind of aqua-rish..and they are warm! 23 plus degrees celsius. So beauiful.
I didn't know the Queen owned all the Swans, what a strange oddity.
Pam
Glad you enjoyed Runrig, what a concert, Edinburgh is one of my favorite places, what an atmosphere.
annie bright: thanks
leslie: Yes she really does and also the piece of coast between low tide and high tide all the way around the coast which is quite a long way.
welshcakes: This pair of swans were particularly stately.
sienna: Hi Pam.I think my thoughts are why can't we have lovely blue seas it would cheer the soul so much more than grey does. Another oddity above sent to leslie. Yes the Runrig concert experience will stay with me until the next one which is already booked!
Claire
I LOVE your first photo.
cait o'connor:Thanks. It really is a goreous place and rather off the trist route too.
I can see why this is one of your favourite places. I should post some pics of one of mine, Nova Scotia's south shore, soon.
What a peaceful post - I would have loved to have sat in the gloaming listening to the owls call. We lie in bed most nights with the window wide open - tucked under the duvet, warm and snug - and listen to the sounds of the night.
benjibopper:South coast Nova Scotia sounds good I await the photos.
mountainear:Yes we have the window wide open overnight too listening to the amazing array of sounds of the night and just looking at the moon and stars when the clouds draw back.Simple pleasures.
There is something comforting in knowing that your queen owns all the swans in the country, so that if a disturbed individual would harm one, he would have her wrath upon him and I suppose it would not be small.
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