Just come back from a couple of days on the Northumberland coast, which was windy, cold but indescribably beautiful.
Cullernose point.......
.......with its breeding colony of kittiwakes and fulmars, which also has .....
.... sea spleenwort fern growing is fissures beside the seabirds' nests.
Gorse, between Craster and Dunstanburgh flowering more profusely than I can ever remember and, appropriately, providing a perch for this ....
... stonechat (??)
Primroses by the sea near Craster
Sea pink Armeria maritima blooming in a rock crevice at Cullernose point
The other common name for sea pink is thrift, a virtue that it was used to symbolise on the old pre-decimalisation brass threepenny pieces..
Scurvy grass flowering on the wall of Craster harbour
Knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum on the intertidal rocks at Low Newton, along with ....
... channelled wrack Pelvetia canaliculata growing around a rock pool
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