No way to treat a nationally scarce plant: Suaeda vera - part of the special interest of this internationally important site - smashed to pieces on Thornham bank yet again by the Environment Agency, 12th March 2017.
Sunday, 12 March 2017
Saturday, 11 March 2017
Saturday 11th March: Kite, Coltsfoot, Bittern and Holly Speckle
Red Kite, Holme NWT, 11th March 2017
Coltsfoot, Holme NWT, 11th March 2017
Bittern, Holme NWT, 11th March 2017
Holly Speckle, Trochila ilicina, Holme NWT, 11th March 2017
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Mallow rust
Rust fungus Puccinia malvacearum on Common Mallow on Redgate Hill. The rust is also found on Hollyhock.
Monday, 6 March 2017
Off Patch - some beetles from Dersingham Bog
Hyperaspis pseudopustulatus, Dersingham Bog, 6th Martch 2017
Strophosoma melanogrammum, Dersingham Bog, 6th March 2017
Stenolophus teutonus, Dersingham Bog, 6th March 2017
Heather Ladybird, Chilocorus bipustulatus, Dersingham Bog, 6th March 2017
Some recent beetles from Ringstead Downs
Ocypus aeneocephalus, Ringstead Downs, 6th March 2017
Graptus triguttatus, Ringstead Downs, 6th March 2017
Longitarsus dorsalis, Ringstead Downs, 6th March 2017
Rhinocyllus conicus, Ringstead Downs, 6th March 2017
Daddy long-legs spider
An inhabitant of our conservatory - Pholcus phalangioides Daddy long-legs spider.
Sparrowhawk feast
This afternoon a female sparrowhawk was feasting on a collared dove kill for over an hour. I didn't see it fly off but only feathers were left behind. Just a few days ago a male sparrowhawk stunned itself flying into our conservatory window. After a few short aborted flights it then flew off apparently none the worse for its collision.
(Photos taken through window glass)
[I was hoping to attach a short video but I think it's the wrong file type.]
(Photos taken through window glass)
[I was hoping to attach a short video but I think it's the wrong file type.]
Saturday, 4 March 2017
Crepidula at Holme
A small number of these Crepdula limpets were found inside a tideline traffic cone at Holme in February. They don't look like either of the "British" species - Slipper Limpet Crepidula fornicata or Chinaman's Hat Calyptraea chinensis, though most votes are for very flattened fornicata, which in more usual domed form is abundant here now.
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