More Camber Sands sunsets

Some more sunset pictures from the dunes...



I'm getting all the sunset pictures I can at the moment, as we're moving house soon so won't be right next to the dunes any more...

Mike

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Sunset at Camber Sands

I popped up on to the dunes at Camber Sands this evening with Tracy, and got a few pics of the sunset. I'll start with my favourite, then the rest are in time order. Enjoy!












Mike

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Kitesurf party at Camber Sands

Walking back along the beach on Saturday we saw an amazing sight: over 60 people out kitesurfing:
It must have been a perfect day for them, just look at the sand being driven by the wind:
Here's a few more pics:
Mike

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Cool thunder clounds in Camber

We had a great thunderstorm this week. Not great because of the lightning, but because of the impressive clouds that rolled over:
I took a short video to show how fast and low they were, and then had to duck inside as the rain came down!

Mike

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Sunset at Camber Sands

There's been some brilliant sunsets the past couple of weeks, and a few days ago I got out to the dunes at Camber Sands to get a few photos, so here you go:
Hope you liked them! :-)

Mike

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Common Terns fishing

I took a few photos on the beach at Camber Sands yesterday, of Common Terns fishing as the tide was going out - they seem to find plenty of fish in the shallow water at this point. They'd fly upwind hunting, then zoom downwind to the start of the feeding patch and work their way back up again.
First, here's a few of them flying around - they chase each other quite a bit.
It's quite obvious when they're looking for fish, as they cruise along looking down:
and then when they spot one...
You can just about see the fish in the bird's beak in the last one. I was especially pleased to get the pictures of two diving for fish at the same time - purely by chance, as I was only following one of them with the camera!

Mike

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Seabirds at Camber Sands

As it was sunny this morning, I took a walk along to the channel the Rother flows along, and then back along the beach to Camber. As the tide was low, there were plenty of seabirds flying along the line of the river but actually below where I was on the sea defences:
allowing me to get some good pictures:
That's a Herring Gull - plenty of them around, usual, here's some more pics:
and it's bigger cousin, the Great Black-backed Gull:
The smaller Black-headed Gull was around too:
and inquisitive as to what I was doing:
The other bird I saw a lot of was the Oyster Catcher:
I know the next one looks the same as the one above, but I like it as it has the bird, its shadow and its reflection all in one photo:
I also saw one Cormorant:
and one Mallard, which was maybe a bit lost?
The sea defences aren't actually in great shape:
but I guess the local council is going to be to broke to fix them any time soon. Hope we don't get a storm surge this winter!

And to finish, a view along Camber Sands, from the Rother end of the beach:
Mike

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