We spent several hours after a late breakfast exploring the rocky, hilly areas that rise from the beach. There are so many plants and flowers to see, including orchids, and finding and photographing them takes time. With Himself botanising, Herself split off and found a quiet place to sit and watch the scenery, with binoculars. At one point, a storm of hundreds of white birds went up from the island with the egret colony, a mixture of gulls and egrets. Looking to see what had put them up, it was a man who had arrived on a boat, clambering up with a bucket; was he collecting eggs? He didn't stay long and the birds settled down again. Shortly after, a black redstart arrived nearby, and later, Mrs. black redstart too. Lovely. The orchid hunt was also productive but the names of the two prize finds were not known.
After lunch we had a walk to see the estuary wetland and the remains of a water mill that had been conserved ten years ago. The mill building was completely wrapped in a huge, bigger-than-parachute sized white cloth with a gigantic red ribbon on it. You could definitely have seen it from space. It is going to be the mill's tenth birthday after conservation, on Saturday. Happy Birthday, Mill.
We ate chocolate and Himself took some great pictures of greenshank, dunlin, and egret, and recorded a noisy reed bird on the camera on the way home. The site is beginning to be a bit busier, with a few more people, we have neighbours who are a Spanish family, with a little boy.
Supper will be later than at home, but not as late as the Spanish supper time, which is at nine or ten. We have an absolutely enormous fresh red pepper and a spicy chorizo sausage which will be good with our pasta and tomato sauce. And two nice pears for afterwards. A second (plastic) bottle of the very cheap wine has been purchased. A vote of confidence.
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