Morning visit to Flamborough village Flowerpot Festival - 8th June 2026

Flowerpot policeman on the road near Thornwick Bay Holiday Park

Sitting girl

Tiger and dog

Andy Pandy and the Flowerpot men

Not particularly part of the festival, but great pig and sheep plant containers

Very over-the-top bright flowerpot people and horse

King flowerpot

Super hero flowerpot people

Miss Muffet sitting with the spider

Not sure what this flowerpot creation is supposed to be

Yet more lovely plant containers in the form of hedgehogs!

Dr Who and a Dalek

Flowerpot creation on the green

Colourful Puffin supervising the event

Pirates tied to a tree

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to see all the flowerpot creations as I ended up buying some provisions from the shop and then had to take them back to my mobile home

On the way back I watched some bunny antics in a field next to the holiday park

and I saw a Goldfinch perching on top of a sign in the holiday park

Birds, nature and flowers - walk along the cliffs to Thornwick Bay, North Landing and Flamborough Head and back - 7th June 2026

View of Thornwick Bay

Starlings and young on the cliffside

Busy Sunday traffic on the cliffs at Thornwick Bay

Bee on Cow Parsley

North Landing bay with Boathouse cafe - I was heading there first for lobster and chips!

Puffin on the cliffs just past North Landing

Two Puffins on the cliffs just past North Landing!

Puffins and a Razorbill a bit further along the coast

Guillemots on the cliff

Guillemot having an argument with a Razorbill

Puffins and a Kittiwake

Puffin, Razorbill and False Mayweed flowers

Many Guillemots perching on the side of the cliff

Yorkshire Belle on a sight-seeing tour along the cliffs

surrounded by flying Kittiwakes

then off to Bempton Cliffs

The small boat from North Landing arrived at the cliffs after the Yorkshire Belle had left

Large black bee on the path

New lighthouse at Flamborough Head in the distance

One of Flamborough village's Flowerpot Festival creations had made it as far as Flamborough Head

Seals lying on rock formations by the coast at low tide

On my way back, I turned round and looked once again at Flamborough Head

and the new lighthouse

and the old lighthouse

Painted Lady butterfly on long grass near the coastal path

Kittiwakes with nests on the cliffs that were near some False Mayweed flowers

A Ladybird landed on my knee while I was sitting down near the edge of the cliff

Large Highland cattle in a field near the cliffs

Wild Orchids in a field at the edge of Thornwick Bay holiday park

Wooden Woodpecker on the Adventure Trail sign in the holiday park

Male Chaffinch perching on the hedge surrounding Thornwick Bay nature reserve

Goldfinch and Linnet perching on top of the hedge in the late afternoon sunshine

Goldfinch perching on a pine at the holiday park