Chough over The Chasms Black against alto-stratus cloud and blue sky, a flight of chough. They nest on cliff- ledges, on sea-stack and precipice here at The Chasms. A flock of thirty birds, their voices high-pitched- the counter-tenors of the crow family.
Chough are a motif here amongst precipitous cliff, rocky bluff and sand dunes. Their call evokes the coastal solitudes I love. Long black fingers as they soar. Wings folded in steep dive.
Chough are a motif here amongst precipitous cliff, rocky bluff and sand dunes. Their call evokes the coastal solitudes I love. Long black fingers as they soar. Wings folded in steep dive.
Cliff-top rocks are lush with soft green lichens. Beware The Chasms, deep fissures in rock - hidden in gorse and vegetation.
To the accompaniment of chough, we follow the coastal path through fading magenta bell heather and gorse to come in sight of The Calf of Man and the turbulent currents that run the narrows: between mainland and island. A seal plays in wild waters, another basks on the shore of Kitterland- an islet out in the narrows.
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To the accompaniment of chough, we follow the coastal path through fading magenta bell heather and gorse to come in sight of The Calf of Man and the turbulent currents that run the narrows: between mainland and island. A seal plays in wild waters, another basks on the shore of Kitterland- an islet out in the narrows.
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