The Bay

Were it not for the birds in the middle ground and just discernible in the distance, you might imagine this was an abstract of layered light.

The view is from Jack Scout, Silverdale across Morecambe Bay towards Barrow. The sun is about to set. It is at this time of low sun that the watery sands pick up a wide palette of colours.

What a beautiful day today, it was surely warmer than on any day since mid-August. And it looks set fair for another few days at least, so this may well become a mini-series of coastal sunsets.

I am told that the buff-breasted sandpiper on Arnside Marsh has now been joined by other vagrant waders from the other side of the Atlantic, a couple of pectoral sandpipers. So I will need to try and fit them in tomorrow if there is time and opportunity.

Tomorrow will be a challenging day at work, a very difficult meeting to prepare for. So I shall probably need some fresh air in the evening.

A year ago: Istanbul.