This photo shows just how beautiful these birds are. I just love the dark marking from the beak, across the eye to the extended plumage at the back of the head, and I’m just so entranced by the “cloak” of long white feathers around his shoulders and down his chest. He’s certainly not the most elegant of birds, but his ungainly stance is far outweighed by his beautiful plumage!!

Chia seeds are already hitting the health market in the US but although they are available in the UK they don't seem to have hit the market as hard as in the US. I suppose this isn’t really surprising as the plant is more prevalent in Mexico and Southern America, so it follows that it would more easily find its way across the borders to the US before reaching us far flung Brits!

This is the last of my photographs taken Spring 2012 of our walk through the leafy glad along the river bank to the wide open Salhouse Broad. Having returned home and uploaded my photo of a gnarled oak I left the photo up on my monitor to have a cup of afternoon tea and a piece of home made cake – very old-fashioned and traditional English “afternoon tea”.