whitby and sandsend

this turnstone was actually much closer than this photo depicts and it trodded around the whitby harbour wall

what a picture

heres a photo of a herring gulls foot. you can see why its included

sorry buddy, its closing time

a cracking day spent a sandsend today. when we arrived at 11.00 it was low tide so went for a walk along the seafront. there were large numbers of juvenile terns roosting there and you could get pretty close. it was spectacular to see them roosting with all the gulls (herring, gbb, black headed) and the oystercatchers.

then we went swimming and messed around in the sea. at about 6.00 we wrapped it up and went into whitby for some fish and chips. as you can see from the pictures there were some spectacular views of turnstones there which was really special and also a ringed gull. as we were comeing out of the fish and chip shop we also spotted Matt Bell which was always a nice surprise!