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Preamble

A cursory glance by the casual mind might think the view uninteresting at best, boring even, with just an endless grey green blandness merging in the distance with an equally featureless grey sky, devoid of anything resembling importance, let alone natural beauty.
The casual mind, indeed.
Standing on the the sea dyke, gazing to the faint horizon, but a moment's reflection reveals an austere, vista of subtle colours, textures and contrasts; a view of reeds and grasses; of wild flowers, blues and whites and splashes of yellow; of little pools of brackish water, muddy banks and half-filled culverts of sluggish streams. In the distance, sparkles from the river estuary catch the eye as do the tiny swaying masts of dingies and yachts, moored to ride the tides. That grey sky of casual glance unfolds with layers of subtle blues and scallop-edged clouds slowly twisting their shapes in atmospheric chaos.
Now the birds swoop into view

Description
Blakeney MarshesBlakeney Marshes
Preamble

A cursory glance by the casual mind might think the view uninteresting at best, boring even, with just an endless grey green blandness merging in the distance with an equally featureless grey sky, devoid of anything resembling importance, let alone natural beauty.
The casual mind, indeed.
Standing on the the sea dyke, gazing to the faint horizon, but a moment's reflection reveals an austere, vista of subtle colours, textures and contrasts; a view of reeds and grasses; of wild flowers, blues and whites and splashes of yellow; of little pools of brackish water, muddy banks and half-filled culverts of sluggish streams. In the distance, sparkles from the river estuary catch the eye as do the tiny swaying masts of dingies and yachts, moored to ride the tides. That grey sky of casual glance unfolds with layers of subtle blues and scallop-edged clouds slowly twisting their shapes in atmospheric chaos.
Now the birds swoop into view