Jevington Plantation in the fog

 

Incredibly foggy day, with water condensing on twigs and falling like rain. Tawny Owl calling at dusk.

Gloom: The Church of St Mary the Virgin and Beachy Brow

 

Winter, Jevington Plantation

Bare trees, finally after the prolonged mild Autumn.
 

Sunrise, Hill Road

 Last good sky, before yet another extended period of anti-cyclonic gloom. The third since the start of November.

Violet Crust Fungus, Jevington Plantation

 

Littlington - Winter waterfowl

 On the the flooded Cuckmere meadows, just south of Littlington.

Wigeon

Record Shot:

Hidden Teal

Full Moon, Hill Road

 The 'Cold Moon' with a planet

Sovereign Harbour

 

Oystercatcher

Redshank

Common Seal

Black-headed Gull

Coral Spot Fungus, Jevington Plantation

 

Jevington Plantation, after Storm Darragh

The sheltered patch of ancient woodland still has some sizeable dead Ash, much of which succumbed to the storm. Still more remain, waiting for strong winds from the north to finish this chapter of the woodlands history.

Hill Road

 Some cold weather with some wonderful morning skies.

Hill Road

 

Scotney Castle

Pollarded veteran Beech, with a trunk girth of 7 metres

Pixie Cup Lichen
 

Sugar Maple, Jevington Plantation

The Sugar Maples are hanging on to beautiful yellow leaves in the increasingly bare wood.
 

The Lookout, near Belle Tout

Teasel near the Belle Tout tumult. The mild autumn weather with low cloud obscuring the higher hills to the east.

Possibly lichen growing on the chalk heath
 

Birling Gap

Rock Pipit

Bathing House Sparrows

A very high tide and rough sea had forced the local Rock Pipits up into the car park. The local House Sparrows were making good use of a puddle from the recent rain.
 

Hill Road Sunrise

Warm wind from the south brought a magnificent late autumn sunrise
 

Sovereign Harbour

 

The winds from Storm Bert were still wild at dusk. Too strong to get to the sea.

Storm Bert

  Wild weather, driving the sea in from the west just before low tide.

 

The End of Autumn

 Arctic air giving the sunrise rare clarity and a heavy frost. The end of autumn. 

Jevington Plantation

 The mild, dry Autumn continues, and the leaves in the wood lie thickly on the ground. The Hazel and Elm are yet to colour, while the Walnut are briefly distinctive, with smaller specimens revealing themselves in dark brown and yellow.

Blue sky moving south, brings cooler weather.
 

Mist across the Low Weald

 

Fox and Magpies, Hill Road

 I was intrigued to see these Magpies so relaxed and close to the Fox. I think a pair of Foxes had raised a litter near the field earlier in the year, so perhaps the animals were familiar with each other.