One of King’s Lynn’s greatest traditions, The Mart, kicks off this Saturday. I saw some of their advertising today, and I have to acknowledge that it is quite impressive, as is the fact that this is the 811th King’s Lynn Mart (the first of a series of annual fairs that closes with the Nottingham Goose Fair)…

I was at the river front at the right time to catch this image a fishing boat…

There were plenty of opportunities to photograph sea birds, including when my main targets were actually other things (check out pic 1 in this series for an example)…

As usual I spotted various architectural features that I deemed camera worthy…

The birds were their usual exuberant selves, starting with a mallard drake and ending with a large bird I could not quite identify (had the colouring of a swan but the neck was too short)…


Before sharing my final images, I came across this today on CosmosUp, @cosmossup:
http://www.cosmosup.com/earths-inner-core-has-an-inner-core-of-its-own. I thought of a title for this idea: Russian Doll Earth!
One of this final selection of images is there because my twitter account is approaching the milestone of 1,700 followers…

Its a goose, Thomas! More interesting are the lapwings – although they like marshland and muddy fields I have never seen them by the river before.
Helen
Thanks for that.