Off Patch - WWT Welney (part 2)

  A great day out in the field with Mr Brown and Mr Lane. A few extra photos from the day.

Agonum marginatum - a common but lovely ground beetle none the less.

Great catching up with this species Hydrophassa marginella, Andy and Steve found this at the Relief Channel last year on buttercups, so a nice find in mid-winter.

Another slumbering leaf beetle Chrysolina polita.

The signs of the flea beetle Longitarsus fowleri on teasel rosettes. Despite Steve's best efforts there were no signs of any adults under the leaves. Found in car park and east side of Observatory, facing sunny aspects.

Although another picture of Stenus guttala, we agreed that this was the species of the day, two were found in a cock's-foot tussock on the east bank of the New Bedford River.

Off Patch: Welney WWT

Water Ladybird Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata, Welney WWT, 14th January 2019

Agromyzid fly Chromatomyia ramosa (mine in Teasel leaf), Welney WWT, 14th Jaunary 2019

Ground Bug Scolopostethus affinis, Welney WWT, 14th January 2019

Weevil Apion frumentarium, Welney, 14th January 2019

Rove Beetle Stenus guttula, Welney WWT, 14th January 201

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

A sawfly found earlier this year

Pachyprotasis rapae, female, Holmhurst Track, 24th June 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

Birds in the Harbour

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

Twite, Thornham Harbour, 13th December 2018

Curlew, Thornham Harbour, 13th 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

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.
 

Off Patch: Sandringham

Nalassus laevioctostriatus,  Sandringham, 26th November 2018

Atrechus affinis, Sandringham, 26th November 2018

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