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I had a rare chance to head into Brighton this morning for work, and gave myself a little extra time to walk the last part along Brighton beach. The weather was overcast, if not misty and very few people were about. A couple of dog-walkers was about it.
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The sea birds were still waking up. I had hoped to see the starlings over West Pier, but I suspect that's more of an evening spectacle. I wasn't entirely disappointed though. Cormorants and black-backed seagulls, happily perching along with some juvenile gulls.
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The resting point is the ruins of the West Pier, one of the highlights (?) of Brighton sea front. It's been collapsing into the sea for around 30 years, and suffers periodic storm and fire damage (though there's precious little left now). All plans for rebuilding have come to nothing \ud83d\ude41
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And in the distance the Palace Pier (sorry, that's what it will always be to me) seen through the beach-side ruins of the West Pier.
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And just to update on the fox front, nicked-ear came through the garden briefly, dodging the light showers we've had this evening.
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Camera note: The first and fourth pictures were taken with the EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM lens. The others of Brighton Beach were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. This evening's shot of the nicked-ear vixen was taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044],"tags":[247,33,416,1128],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","tag-beach","tag-birds","tag-brighton","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t