The last time we shot from the Palace Pier and thought we’d be closer at the Doughnut (Afloat). This time we shot from the Doughnut and wondered if we wouldn’t have been better at the Palace Pier. Or, perhaps, the best view was had by the swimmers in the frigid waters.
Murmuration over the West Pier and an in-camera panorama from the sun going down to West Pier
In mid-February we went back to the Doughnut Groyne, between the Palace and West Piers to see the murmuration of the starlings again. This time they were rather further away from our vantage point but we still managed to capture something.
The murmuration had not begun but the starlings were gathering (as were the gulls).
Walking home on a wintery afternoon we came to West Pier in a dusky light and stopped to see the starlings gather for their daily murmuration.
The last of the dusk’s murmuration before the starlings all dove beneath the pier to roost.
A must see in Brighton is the starling murmurations, occurring at dusk between about November and February. We photographed them in mid-December (and may go back this month as their numbers increase with incoming Scandinavian birds).
“Rottingdean is a village in the city Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. It borders the villages Saltdean, Ovingdean and Woodingdean, and has a historic centre, often the subject of picture postcards.” Some of its more renowned residents include Rudyard Kipling, Enid Bagnold, and Edward Burne-Jones.
Still more from our walk from Falmer to Rottingdean. Beginning to get used to walking through a field of cows.
Back in April we took a walk with the Brighton Ramblers from Steyning town up to the Chanctonbury Ring, and unbeknownst to me I was recording images on chip 2 of my camera, where the next few days’ images remained until being discovered a couple of weeks ago,
On the famous Worthing pier, there’s a partition of coloured glass panes running down the centre. I took this shot west along the English Channel through a green pane.
