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

Monday 29 February 2016

2 Arachnids and 3 Beetles from the dunes at Holme, 29th February 2016

Marram Jumping Spider, Marpissa nivoyi, Holme NWT, 29th February 2016


 Marram Pseudoscorpion, Dactylochelifer latreillei, Home NWT, 29th February 2016


Common Dumble Dor Beetle, Geotrupes spiniger, Holme NWT, 29th February 2016


 Demetrias monostigma, Holme NWT, 29th February 2016


Marram Weevil, Sitona lineatus, Holme NWT, 29th February 2016


Short-eared Owl

Short-eared Owl, Holme NWT, 29th February 2016


Wednesday 24 February 2016

Spring is in the air.......

and the birds seem to be getting very excited - at last.

Starling, Hunstanton, 24th February 2016



House Sparrow, Hunstanton, 24th February 2016



Fulmar, Hunstanton, 24th February 2016






Sunday 21 February 2016

Grey Partridge

Grey Partridge, Lavender Marsh, Holme NWT, 20th February 2016







Spotted Redshank and Brent Goose in Thornham Harbour

Spotted Redshank, Thornham Harbour, 20th February 2016


Brent Goose, Thornham Harbour, 20th February 2016


Monday 15 February 2016

Birds from an off-patch Saturday

Red-necked Grebe, Brancaster Staithe, 13th February 2016



Barn Owl, Holkham, 13th February 2016


Black Redstart, Wells, 13th February 2016


Peewit, Wells, 13th February 2016



Bats on patch

Whiskered Bat, Hunstanton, February 16th 2016


Natterer's Bat, Hunstanton, February 16th 2016


Daubenton's Bat, Snettisham (off patch, with condensation on fur), February 16th 2016


Red-breasted Merganser

Drake Red-breasted Merganser, Twite Marsh, Holme NWT, February 14th 2016


Sunday 7 February 2016

Iceland Gull, Holme NWT, 19th December 2015

Iceland Gull, Holme NWT, 19th December 2015


A few birds around the patch on a windy Sunday

Robin, Holme Marsh, 7th February 2016


Pheasant,  Holme Marsh, 7th February 2016


Redshank, Gore Point, 7th February 2016


Bar-tailed Godwit, Gore Point, February 7th 2016


Little Egret,  Gore Point, February 7th 2016


Friday 5 February 2016

Monday 1st February in the Downs


Nuctea umbratica, Ringstead Downs, 1st February 2016


 Amaurobius fenestralis, Ringstead Downs, 1st February 2016


Triplax aenea, Ringstead Downs, 1st February 2016


Glischrochilus hortensis, Ringstead Downs, 1st February 2016




 Cychrus carboides, Ringstead Downs, 1st February 2016


Cicones undatus, Ringstead Downs, 1st February 2016


False Ladybird, Endomychus coccineus, Ringstead Downs, 1st February 2016





Thursday 4 February 2016

Another Sperm Whale!

Yet another washed up alive this morning making it the sixth one to wash up on the British coast and the 29th (happy to be corrected) to be washed ashore, with a 30th floating dead in the southern North Sea this year:

11 Jan, 2 Wangerooge Island, Germany (stomach dissection found limited amount of squid, so not feeding successfully)
12 Jan, 5 Texel, Netherlands
12 Jan, 2 Helgoland, Germany
13 Jan, 1 Busum, Germany
14 Jan, 2 
Texel, Netherlands
14 Jan, 1 Weser River estuary, German Wadden Sea
22 Jan, 1 Hunstanton
23 Jan, 2 Skegness (nr Gibraltar Point), Lincs
24 Jan, 1 Skegness (nr Seacroft), Lincs
25 Jan, 1 Wainsfleet, Lincs.

late Jan1 stranded Blauort Germany, 1 floating in this area
1   Feb, 8 Friedichskoog,
German Wadden Sea
2   Feb, 1 Hemmes de Marck (nr Calais, the southernmost North Sea coast), France
4   Feb, 1 Hunstanton