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

Monday 31 December 2018

Three beasties from under Hunstanton cliffs

The ground bug Taphropeltus contractus, Hunstanton Cliffs, 31st December 2018


Rosy Woodlouse Androniscus dentiger, Hunstanton Cliffs, 31st December 2018


Dung Beetle Aphodius sphacalatus, Hunstanton Cliffs, 31st December 2018


Saturday 29 December 2018

Wednesday 26 December 2018

A festive gall

The pink-purple gall in the form of a swollen, rolled-up leaf of Red Valerian - to be seen all around Hunstanton


The nymph of the gall-causer, the Psylloid bug Trioxa centranthi


Thursday 13 December 2018

Birds in the Harbour

Black-tailed Godwit, Thornham Harbour, 13th December 2018


Twite, Thornham Harbour, 13th December 2018


Curlew, Thornham Harbour, 13th December 2018


Wednesday 12 December 2018

Great Black-backed Gull

Great Black-backed Gull, Holme NWT, 9th December 2018


A new Fungus and a new Agromyzid fly for the patch

Liriomyza amoena mine in Elder, Holme Marsh, 10th December 2018


White-egg Bird's Nest Crucibulum laeve, Holme NWT, 2nd December 2018


Saturday 1 December 2018

A December Natterjack with a appetite!

1st December 2018

   A very mild evening at Holme (11 degrees) sent me out looking for a December natterjack toad. A walk round The Firs car park soon found one, and was clearly very hungry, taking on a large lobworm.





   I took a few shots of it as it was starting it's meal, but left it in peace to walk further up the track. On returning ten minutes later it looked like a truce had been called, with a fed up looking natterjack and a worm gloating nearby.
 


Tuesday 27 November 2018

Off Patch: Sandringham

Nalassus laevioctostriatus,  Sandringham, 26th November 2018


Atrechus affinis, Sandringham, 26th November 2018



Snow Flea, Boreus hyemalis, Sandringham, 26th November 2018






Monday 5 November 2018

Off Patch: Welney, 5th November 2018

Blethisa multipunctata, Welney, 5th November 2018


Agonum piceum, Welney, 5th November 2018


Chlaenius nigricornis, Welney 5th November 2018


Saucer Bug, Ilyocoris cimicoides, 5th November 2018


Whooper Swan, 5th November 2018


Saturday 3 November 2018

Green-brindled Crescent

Green-brindled Crescent, Hunstanton, 26th October 2018


Great Clouds, Holme NWT, 28th October


Off Patch: Water Forget-me-not Lacebug

Water Forget-me-not Lacebug, New Buckenham Common, October 29th 2018


Pink-feet, Orange Sky

Pink-footed Geese at dawn over Hunstanton, 3rd November 2018


Five familiar birds

Herring Gull, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018


Common Gull, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018


Turnstone, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018


Oystercatcher, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018


Black-headed Gull, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018




Monday 15 October 2018

Off patch, undisclosed site

Pepperpot Earthstar, 7th October 2018


Off patch: Weeting, Hempton and Lynford

Anthicus antherinus, Hempton Common, 10th October 2018


Coleophora lineolata, a case-bearing moth on Hedge Woundwort, Lynford, 13th October 2018


Streak, Weeting, 13th October 2018


Broom Treehopper Gargara genistae on broom, Lynford, 13th October 2018


Gorse Lacebug, Dictyonota strchnocera, Hempton, 10th October 2018


Deep Brown Dart

Deep Brown Dart, Holme NOA, 8th October 2018


Monday 15th October.......

Dark Chestnut, Holme NWT, 15th October 2018


New Poplar Pygmy Ectoedemia hannoverella (mine in Italian Poplar), Holme NWT, 15th October 2018


Pantilius tunicatus, Holmhurst Track,  15th October 2018