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Sunday 22 June 2014

Viper`s-bugloss on a sunny Sunday

The slopes of Holywell Eastbourne are covered in this glorious plant  Here that loves the sandy and chalk soil of the area, the bees are visiting the plant in large numbers too which is lovely to see.
A nice sunset rounded off a sunny day here with light winds and a pleasing temperature of around 20c





8 comments:

  1. You've solved a riddle David. I was photographing this at the plot last week but none of us knew the name of it.

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    1. I didn`t Victoria until my wife saw it described in one of her magazines

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  2. Beautiful colours in the flowers and what a stunning sunset

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  3. Your bee pictures are great. i love the creatures but they usually move so fast (and generally straight towards my face), for me to get a good look at them.

    jean x

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  4. Beautiful colour. Was the flying bee intentional or a lucky coincidence?

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  5. Sue and Jean I work on the basis that if you fire off a burst of enough photos you will get lucky with one this one took a burst of 6

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    1. Sounds like me but id I set to 16mp I only get 3 bursts even though the burst rate is set to 9

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