"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Saturday 31 December 2016

Twite, Thornham Harbour

Twite, Thornham Harbour, 31st December 2016





40 in the Harbour today, including two colour-ringed birds:

orange/metal on left X black/yellow on right 
pink/metal on left X red/pink on right 

Twite flight

Twite, Thornham Harbour, 31st December 2016










Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit, Thornham Harbour, 29th December 2016



Sunday 11 December 2016

Offshore..................




A Purple Sandpiper at Hunstanton

Purple Sandpiper, Hunstanton, 11th December 2016




Off Patch: 4 beetles from Foulden Common

Gauropterus fulgidus, Foulden Common, 5th December 2016


Philonthus spinipes, Foulden Common, 5th December 2016


Cassida nebulosa, Foulden Common, 5th December 2016



Carabus granulatus, Foulden Common, 5th December 2016


Saturday 3 December 2016

Sunday 27 November 2016

Green Woodpecker


Green Woodpecker, Holme Marsh, 27.11.2016




Hibernating Hoverflies

Eristalis tenax (female), Holme NWT, 20.11.2016




Eristalinus aeneus, females, Holme NWT, 20.11.2016

Sunday 20 November 2016

Lichens from the Downs, Dunes and Holmhurst Track

Micarea denigrata, Ringstead Downs, 19th November 2016



Ramalina farinacea, Holmhurst Track, 19th November 2016



Peltigera canina, Holme Dunes, 19th November 2016


Cladonia chlorophacaeae, Holme NWT, 19th November 2016


Amandinea punctata, Ringstead Downs (on Field Maple), 19th November 2016


Parmotrema perlatum, Holmhurst Track, 19th November 2016


Phlyctis argena, Ringstead Downs, 19th November 2016


A scarce seashore woodlouse at Holme

Armadillidium album, Gore Point, 12th September 2016




A scarce upper shore species often found under driftwood.

Saturday 19 November 2016

Off Patch: a rare woodlouse at Snettisham

Porcellio laevis, Snettisham, 13th November 2016


Eight more churchyard lichens

Lecanora sulphurea, Old Hunstanton Church, 19th November 2016


Lecanora albescens, Old Hunstanton Church, 19th November 2016


Verrucaria hochstetteri, Old Hunstanton church, 19th November 2016


Cladonia pocillum, Old Hunstanton church, 19th November 2016


Tephromela atra, Old Hunstanton church, 19th November 2016


Parmelia sulcata, Old Hunstanton church, 19th November 2016


Caloplaca teicholyta, Old Hunstanton church, 19th November 2016


Collema tenax, Old Hunstanton church, 19th November 2016


Sprawler

Sprawler, Ringstead Downs, 19th November 2016



Spindle

Spindle, Ringstead Downs, 19th November 2016