from houns-tout towards the beachy head light house
Monday, October 03, 2005
marvels of nature and engineering
from bexhill to brighton, diverting via beachy head because the sky was so very bright
astonished to find the cliff edge between beachy head and houns-tout was teeming with hundreds of migrating house martins
even more astonished to see, for the first time and probably the only time, an all-white one; absolutely white as far as i could tell in the brief two or three seconds of focussed perception
hoping to catch him or her on camera, i just held it at arms length and scanned the cliff edge for a second glimpse, with my eyes wide open
i was lucky, but the image you see is just a much enlarged detail in the wider scene
i had a third glimpse but the wings were folded back and the image too non-descript
later, making good of some spare time, i took an unscheduled diversion to see the marvellous brick railway viaduct at borde hill near balcombe, on the london to brighton line
astonished to find the cliff edge between beachy head and houns-tout was teeming with hundreds of migrating house martins
even more astonished to see, for the first time and probably the only time, an all-white one; absolutely white as far as i could tell in the brief two or three seconds of focussed perception
hoping to catch him or her on camera, i just held it at arms length and scanned the cliff edge for a second glimpse, with my eyes wide open
i was lucky, but the image you see is just a much enlarged detail in the wider scene
i had a third glimpse but the wings were folded back and the image too non-descript
later, making good of some spare time, i took an unscheduled diversion to see the marvellous brick railway viaduct at borde hill near balcombe, on the london to brighton line
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