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There’s more to the Orme

15 Saturday Feb 2014

Posted by in Little Orme, Nature, Nature of Wales, nature photography, Rhiwledyn Nature Reserve, The Wales Coast Path

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When the wind blows and sunlight slides slowly around the bulk of the Little Orme textures and patterns are revealed on surfaces that may go unnoticed in any other season when the sun is higher in the sky.

CLIFFS

Textures and patterns on a grass-covered cliff

Sunlit cliff face

140206-Little Orme 20-Light and shade on cliff

140206-Little Orme 27-Sunlit cliff

GRASS

Textured grass terraces

Grassy hummocks

ROCKS

Sunlight catches the edge of a rock

140206-Little Orme 23- Sea coming back under rocks

140111-Sunlit rock, Angel Bay

PRICKLY PLANTS 

140206-Little Orme 14- Burrs

140206-Little Orme 12- Carline Thistle sunlit

140206-Little Orme 11- Carline Thistle

SEA SWELLS

From the cliff and Oyster catcher is a tiny black and white speck against a wind-ruffled sea

140128-Little Orme 2- Grey Seals swimming

Red-throated diver

140207-Red-throated Diver-Little Orme

BIRDS AMONGST TANGLES OF TWIGS

Great Tit singing

140207-Great tit singing-Little Orme

House sparrow eating

140207-House sparrow eating-Little Orme

Robin singing

140207-Robin in a bush singing-Little Orme

Greenfinch singing

140207-Greenfinch singing-Little Orme

And a glimpse of a Long-tailed Tit

140207-Long-tailed Tit-Little Orme