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Feeding Frenzy

Feeding Frenzy

A feeding frenzy of black headed gulls on the River Thames.


And the Lord said…

And the Lord said...

Let there be council flats! Near Shepperton, west London


Bluebell

Bluebell

Every spring, woodlands across England erupt into carpets of bluebell blossoms. It’s nice to stop and admire one close up. Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire.


Mammillaria

Mammillaria

Cacti in bloom in Kew Gardens at the Princess of Wales greenhouse.


Looking down

Looking down

Little squirrel watching the happenings at Kew Gardens, London.


Off the rails

Off the rails

The Dungeness nature reserve is covered in abandoned fishing huts and disused narrow gauge train lines that have been left to buckle in the sun.


Fell from the nest

Fell from the nest

Always so sad to find a lost egg in the spring time. Wytham Wood, West Oxfordshire.


Malvern Hills

Malvern Hills

The Malvern Hills, west England, stretch through the countryside and you can walk from peak to peak.


Hailes Abbey

Hailes Abbey

The National Trust/English Heritage site of Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire law in ruins, but you can walk around the footprint and the remaining walls.


On the beach

On the beach

The shingle beach of the Dungeness nature reserve is littered in abandoned and disused fishing boats.


Golden Hour

Golden Hour

Daffodils blooming at the end of the day in early spring at Kew Gardens, London.


Magnolia

Magnolia

The first magnolias of the year, blooming at Kew Gardens in west London!


Dugeness

Dugeness

Shingle beach on the isolated peninsula of Dungeness, England.


Greylag

Greylag

Foot of a cheeky greylag goose on the shores of the River Thames near Shepperton.


Standing Guard

Standing Guard

A dog looks out from his post standing guard of a family shop to look at the streets of York slowly waking up.


Reflections

Reflections

A quiet day in Windsor Great Park, with reflections of the trees on the water.


Sunset

Sunset

Sunset at reflecting on the pure white chalk hills of the south downs.


Refreshments

Refreshments

I think this old refreshments hut on the beach in Eastbourne is probably in use in the summer, but nobody expected a day this hot in October.


Roman Ruins

Roman Ruins

The reconstructed random Roman Ruins in Windsor Great Park.


Gladiola

Gladiola

When I saw these glads in a bin on the street in Eastbourne, my mind immediately started going to all the dramatic possibilities of how they got there.


Fishing off the Pier

Fishing off the Pier

At the end of Eastbourne Pier at sunset on this hot day that every knew would be the last hot day of the year, people were lined up with fishing rods, fishing in the Atlantic.


Pier

Pier

The scarily rusting complex steel supports of the Victorian Eastbourne Pier.


Eastbourne Pier

Eastbourne Pier

The lurid but pretty Victorian pier at Eastbourne on a hot day where you can’t really see the boundary between sea and sky.


Danger Keep Out

Danger Keep Out

A typically unhelpful and obvious British safety sign, at Beachyhead, on the south coast of England.