Recylable plastics... from biomaterials.

Plastics from sugar cane!

Never before has my blog promoted a commercial company.
And I'm not doing so now just because my daughter is the presenter of this video on youtube. 

The message is powerful. 

Recyclable biobased plastics are being produced in The Netherlands, reducing our dependence on oil.

Check out the link below.

http://youtu.be/S_C4x-jjZBc

From one proud father.

Cuckmere Haven birds, 18th November 2012

These meanders of the former course of the Cuckmere river are rich in bird life.

You will need binoculars to see them.

Above, cormorants, heron, oystercatcher and a gull.

There is a redshank in there somewhere

On the river bank itself was a gull and a redshank.

The little bird to the left of the gull is a little grebe.  It spends a lot of time under the water.

It looked like close to a hundred black-backed gulls in this field.

There was a small flock of greenfinches on this island.

The Seven Sisters as viewed from Cuckmere Haven beach.

Right on the skyline was a stonechat.

To escape the crowds we returned to Exceat via open access land and the South Downs way path.

There were large flocks of Canada geese in the Cuckmere valley.

Another magical day out in Sussex by the sea.

Pagham harbour linear walk - just great!

This was a walk that we did on Saturday, 3rd November 2012.  Little egrets are common all along the Sussex coast, so it was no surprise to see this one near the beginning of this walk from the RSPB centre at Pagham harbour yesterday.
Stopping at the Ferry pool hide, there were views of teal.

A long way away, were a group of avocets that a kindly birder with a very powerful telescope showed us.  With binoculars they were white spots.  A photo with my camera was impossible.

In the centre of the picture above were a couple of herons and a little egret.

 Here is an egret in flight.

Far away were a some shellducks.

We also saw (but could not get a picture of) a Little grebe.

Near the Church Norton hide were a couple of Great crested grebes

 A small flock of Teal were feeding in the intertidal mud flats.

A gull.

Across the water were some redshanks.

 

 Further away still were some Oystercatchers and Cormorants

 

We walked around the coast to Selsey Lifeboat station under a darkening sky.

A couple of Oystercatchers paced the shoreline.

From the promenade at Selsey the turnstones are common and used to people.

This is a great linear walk using the local bus to get back to the starting point -- on this day, just before the rains came.