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

Saturday, 23 May 2015

Three day-flying moths at Holme today, 23rd May 2015

Plain Fanner, Glyphipteryx fuscoviridella, Holme NWT, 23rd May 2015


Pine-cone Piercer, Cydia conicolana, Holme NOA, 23rd May 2015


Vetch Piercer, Grapholita jungiella, Holme NWT, 23rd May 2015


Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Two butterflies, a moth and a beetle at Ringstead Downs

 

Small Copper

Brown Argus

Cinnabar Moth

A leaf beetle  Cryptocephalus sericeus?

Some early-summer flowers

 
Ground-ivy on the North bank at Ringstead Downs

Common Rock-rose at Ringstead Downs

Hairy Rock-cress at Ringstead Downs
 
Long-stalked Crane's-bill at Ringstead Downs

Horseshoe Vetch at Ringstead Downs

Common Bird's-foot-trefoil at Hunstanton Community Orchard
 
Henbit Dead-nettle in Old Hunstanton Churchyard

Holly in Old Hunstanton Churchyard

Bay in Old Hunstanton Churchyard

Ivy-leaved Toadflax at Old Hunstanton

Meadow Saxifrage at Old Hunstanton Churchyard


Sand Sedge at Holme Dunes

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

A Hawthorn Gall at Holme

Dysaphis crataegi, a gall-forming aphid on Hawthorn, Holme NWT, 10th May 2015

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Sunday, 10 May 2015

Name this micromoth?

A little moth I found in my front garden yesterday - sorry, no idea what it is! Its Sulphur Tubic !




Ant Beetle!!!

Ladies & gentleman, I present to you the Ant Beetle Thanasimus formicarius...

Holme-next-the-Sea, 10th May 2015

Saturday, 9 May 2015

Frosted Green

A good local rarity.  Holme Obs, 8th May 2015

Migration at Hunstanton Cliffs

    Saturday 9 May 2015


Counting period: 05:30 - 09:00
Weather: wind WSW5, cloud-cover 4/8, temperature 6 ℃
Observers: Andy Brown & Chris Mills

SNSNSN
Hobby  1  1  Swallow  3782  -  Jackdaw  23  -  
Greenshank  1  -  House Martin  946  -  Greenfinch  1  -  
Woodpigeon  2  -  Tree Pipit  1  -  Goldfinch  25  -  
Collared Dove  3  -  flava wagtail sp.  18  -  Siskin  1  -  
Swift  618  -  alba wagtail sp.  6  -  Linnet  11  -  
Sand Martin  38  -  Wheatear  2  -    

Totals: 5480 individuals, 17 species, 3:30 hours

Bold = Remarkable observation (scarce or rare species or large number)
Comments: An unexpectedly superb morning, with a site-record passage of Swallows the highlight

Friday, 8 May 2015

Migration at Hunstanton Cliffs

    Friday 8 May 2015


Counting period: 05:25 - 06:25
Weather: wind var0, cloud-cover 3/8, temperature 7 ℃
Observers: Andy Brown

SNSN
Woodpigeon  40  -  Jackdaw  2  -  
Swallow  3  -  Rook  -  1  
House Martin  1  -  Goldfinch  3  -  
flava wagtail sp.  4  -  Siskin  1  -  

Totals: 55 individuals, 8 species, 1:00 hours

Bold = Remarkable observation (scarce or rare species or large number)