The wonderful winter display of the starlings in Brighton
Author: Nikon_Ritch
Spectacular Starlings
Since the fires on the West Pier and the structure becoming more open, the birds are now seen on the Palace Pier (Brighton pier for non-locals). Starling numbers increase when very cold weather hits North eastern Europe as most of the birds are from Germany, […]
Dance of the Brighton Starlings
The glorious display of birds at dusk over Brighton Pier before they roost for the night. These days they appear only from time to time, through the winter months and in far smaller numbers than before.
Brighton Murmuration
Starlings arrive from as far away as Scandinavia to join their native cousins as they roost for the winter. The flocks, which can swell to as many as 40,000 birds at the peak in December, used to be seen each evening over West Pier as […]
Brighton Pier in Winter
Brighton Pier …..at Christmas….ice cream sold here…..
Tidy Street General Store Brighton
A general store is somewhere where you can buy anything from a jar of chutney to a pair of socks. The shop features everything from Moroccan baskets, jam from Hackney, mohair throws from England’s last remaining vertical mill, Breton coffee bowls and chocolate made by […]
Brighton Solstice
The celebration of the shortest day, the burning of the clocks in Brighton
Canary Wharf London
Canary Wharf London, the new world for the brave
Hackney Washing Baths
Public washing baths that used to serve the community of Shacklewell from the early 1930s up until the 1980s. Constructed of red brick with Portland stone dressings the lines and features of this single-storey building are classical in tone and reminiscent of other civic buildings […]