2018
24/12/2018 - As They Used To Say In The Beano, A Merry Christmas To All Our Readers! A Couple Of Festive Grey Squirrels Photographed This Morning.
19/12/2018 - A Walk Along The River Yesterday Yields Close Up Pictures Of A Pair Of Egyptian Geese Revealing The Wonder Of Their Plumage. Later, A Solitary Long-Tailed Tit.
16/12/2018 - Some Of The Usual Crowd From Whitlingham CP, Taken Last Friday. New Pictures Of A First Winter And Adult Black-Headed Gulls, A Pair Of Greylag Geese, Duck And Drake Tufted Ducks And A Winter Plumage Great-Crested Grebe.
11/12/2018 - Some Pictures From NWT Thorpe Marshes On Monday. A Couple Of New Pictures Of Female Goldeneye. Not The Best Of Pictures But A Nice Record Of This Species Only A Couple Of Miles From The Centre Of Norwich. New Pictures Of Male And Female Pochard. A Pair Of Cormorants In A Tree.
05/12/2018 - Two New Pictures Of Members Of The Crow Family. A Carrion Crow In Eaton Park And A Rook In Tuckswood.
01/12/2018 - From A Walk Round Whitlingham Yesterday, Some New, Much Improved, Pictures Of A Pair Of Gadwall, An Extremely Under-Appreciated Duck. A New Picture Of A Group Of Tufted Duck. And Finally, An Egyptian Goose Up A Tree.
22/11/2018 - Some Pictures From A Walk Along The Marriott's Way On Wednesday, When It Was Nice... Unlike Today And Tuesday! A Blackbird With A Single White Feather, A Bathing Song Thrush With Friend And A Greenfinch Up A Tree.
16/11/2018 - Have corrected the date on the Red Fox entry to 2018, not 2011! Also from yesterday a type of Hoverfly that I have been unable to pin to species level but which belongs to the genus Syrphus. A flock of Feral Pigeons in Norwich.
15/11/2018 - Finally! Some pictures of a species I've long known to live locally, the Red Fox. A second large mammal of the day, a new picture of a Muntjac.
08/11/2018 - Another species of spider new to the website and possibly relatively new to the country and science! More details on the page about this Linyphiidae species. Whilst reviewing my correspondence with the British Arachnological Society, I came across a species of Harvestman they'd identified for me in August that I hadn't added to the site. so rather belatedly, here is Mitpus Morio.
07/11/2018 - A species of spider new to the website, the mysteriously and rather wonderfully named Missing Sector Orb Weaver.
04/11/2018 - A lovely day out on the east coast of Norfolk at Winterton and inland of Horsey Gap. Species new to the site; Red-throated diver and Snow Bunting. New pictures of species already on the site; Grey Phalarope, Stonechat, Redwing and a grazing Roebuck. Some of the pictures are rather distant but everything is identifiable!
01/11/2018 - A visit from a Buff-tailed Bumblebee last week. I've been reviewing the bee section using Nick Owens' excellent Bees of Norfolk book. It's helped me to make a correction. the Bumblebee first-aid page is actually features a White-tailed Bumblebee. Thank you Mr Owens!
26/10/2018 - A final entry from the visit to Thorpe Marshes earlier in the week, a species new to the website, a very untypical and therefore difficult to identify Common Carder Bee, subsequently confirmed by iSpot. I spent so long pouring through Nick Owens' excellent Bees of Norfolk, that I was not only able to identify the carder bee but also correct a misidentification of a different species. the rather splendidly named Hairy-footed Flower Bee is now correctly identified and labelled.
25/10/2018 - new pictures of a Long-tailed Tit and a Jay in Lion Wood.
23/10/2018 - A visitit to Thorpe Marshes delivers a couple of species new to the site, the Nursery Web Spider, Pisaura mirabilis and a species of Caddis Fly Anabolia nervosa. New pictures of a soaring Common Buzzard.
Back in Earlham Cemetery, more Grey Squirrel pictures. It's that time of year.
16/10/2018 - Four Moth Species New To The Site From Sunday's Trip To RSPB Titchwell; The Sallow, Large Wainscot, Streak And Green-Brindled Crescent. Meanwhile, Back At Home, A Many-Plumed Moth.
15/10/2018 - The Moth Section Of The Website Has Been Restructured So That The Species Are Now Separated Into A Series Of Sub-Indexes Based On Families.
14/10/2018 - A Trip To RSPB Titchwell Provided A Species New To Me And So New To The Site, A Jack Snipe. Also New Pictures Of A Common Frog, A Hawthorn Shield Bug And Oak Bush-Cricket.
13/10/2018 - Some New Pictures Of One Of The Garden Blue Tits Taken During The Week.
10/10/2018 - New Pictures Of Two Mammals Today. A Grey Squirrel Gathering And A Doe Muntjac, Both In Norwich.
06/10/2018 - New Pictures Of A Common Green Shieldbug And The Front Door Strikes Yet Again, With Another Small Dusty Wave.
02/10/2018 - Another Aracnid Visitor, This One New To The Webesite, The False Black Widow, Latin Name Steatoda Grossa, Which I Have Used To Differentiate It From The Noble False Widow, Latin Name Steatoda Nobilis.
01/10/2018 - It's that time of the year; new pictures of a Giant House Spider.
28/09/2018 - Another day, another moth species on the front door; A Small Dusty Wave.
22/09/2018 - The front door strikes again! Another moth new to the site, the splendidly named Large Ranculus.
18/09/2018 - The dragonfly from Lackford has been identified as a Migrant Hawker. More about the confusion on the page. Also a Willow Emerald Damselfly and a pair of Comma butterflies freom Lackford. Up at the allotment, a species of Ground Beetle, Agonum emarginatum. On a walk by the Yare, another Common Frog sitting in the middle of a path.
16/09/18 - A visitit to SWT Lackford Lakes and Cavenham NNR in Suffolk yielded new photographs of Kingfisher and Small Heath butterfly. There are some new dragon and damselfly pictures to come but I'm still ensuring I have the correct id before including them. Then, a lovely surprise on arriving home, a Swallow-tailed Moth on the front door, a species new to the site.
12/09/18 - One final summer addition, this time from The Lakes and a species new to the site, Pale-streak Grass-veneer.
10/09/18 - To "celebrate" the fact that Garden orb web Spiders are everywhere, as usual in september, here's a photograph of the underside of one in its web. A new, much improved, picture of a Mute swan.
09/09/18 - One last picture from Tiree for which I was awaiting confirmation of id. An unfortunate crane fly, Tipula paludosa.
Back at home, another Latin name to contend with, a species of square-headed wasp new to the site, Ectemnius lapidarius.
08/09/18 - The final selection of pictures from Tiree. I've added a couple of pictures of unusual behaviour by a Dunlin to the pictures added on the 1st. A rather damp Song Thrush and then one who's somewhat drier. A couple of pictures showing flocks of Ringed Plover. A new picture of a Meadow Pipit. A new set of pictures of a Grey Seal. A pair of Eider in eclipse plumage. Only the second picture of a Common Sandpiper for the site. A new and much improved picture of the hoverfly, Eupeodes corollae.
Back at home, a new picture of a Dock bug. new to the website, a species of bug, Rhopalus subrufus. A new picture of the hoverfly, Eupeodes latifasciatus.
07/09/18 - More pictures from tiree. A species new to the site, the Cuckoo. A rather distant couple of pictures. A couple of new pictures of a Lapwing. New pictures of House Sparrow, including a juvenile. New pictures of Moss Carder Bee and the Great Yellow Bumblebee. A picture of a juvenile Skylark. New pictures of Another species that has been rather under represented, the Bar-tailed Godwit. A new picture of a Dor Beetle. Coincidentally the only other Dor Beetle on the site is also on Tiree. Finally today, a sleepy juvenile Twite.
04/09/18 - More from Tiree. New pictures of Grey seals. There are good numbers of Twite on the island. These are probably my favourite pictures from the holiday. New pictures of Swallows. Much improved new pictures of rock pipit. New pictures of a juvenile Linnet feeding. A taxon (I had to look that up!) of dragonfly new to the site, the Highland Darter. In light of this, it is possible that there are some pictures on the Common Darter pages that are in fact Highland Darters. I shall be checking in due course.
02/09/18 - New pictures of Brown Hares on Tiree.
01/09/18 - Back from a break on Tiree, the outermost of the Inner Hebrides. New pictures of Hooded Crows. A new picyure of a Wheatear. New pictures of Starlings. A new picture of Oystercatchers. New pictures of an underrepresented species on this website, the Dunlin. A Grey Heron in flight from a slightly unusual angle. More to come over the next few days.
24/08/18 - Fixed the spelling of Scotch Argus! To come in the next week or two, new photographs from Tiree.
02/08/18 - A coastal walk yesterday from West Runton to Sheringham brings a species new to the website, a Black Redstart and new pictures of Red-tailed bumblebee, Five-spot Burnet Moth, an Essex Skipper, a female House Sparrow and a hunting Kestrel.
31/07/18 - A species of Philodromus Crab Spider, which may or or may not be new to the site!
25/07/18 - New and much improved pictures of a Cinnamon Bug. New picturs of a greenfinch on the garden feeders.
19/07/18 - New pictures of a singing Dunnock and a Common Field Grasshopper both at the allotments.
17/07/18 - Very pleased with today's species new to the site; a European Beewolf on the allotment!
15/07/18 - More Gatekeeper butterflies at the gate to Sloughbottom Park.
12/07/18 - A walk round Earlham Cemetery leads to new pictures of Essex Skipper and Ringlet butterfles and the aptly named Flesh Fly.
11/07/18 - Plenty of butterflies around at the moment. New pictures today of Meadow Brown and Gatekeeper. A very photogenic juvenile Robin allowed me take its picture.
09/08/18 - Hedgehogs need our help!
A species of ichneumon wasp new to the site, Ichneumon Xanthorius.
08/07/18 - First picture of a female Reed Bunting for the website. And a form of female Blue-tailed Damselfly new to the website. New pictures of a juvenile Pied Wagtail. All on the marshes at Potter Heigham.
Back at home, Large White butterflies.
06/07/18 - A walk along the Yare from UEA to Eaton, then Eaton and Marston Marshes brought a Grey Heron feeling the heat, a new picture of a male Four-spotted Chaser, new pictures of interesting behaviour from Small White and Green-veined White butterflies. By the Yare, a Meadow Brown feeding.
Back at the allotment, a Brimstone. Meanwhile, some sad news from the allotments, a couple of Hedgehogs have drowned in neighbours' ponds recently. They are desperate for water in this prolonged hot weather. This Tweet and this article from the EDP give good advice on how to help.
03/07/18 - A new picture of a Brown Hawker dragonfly. More unusual feeding behaviour, this time from a Blackbird.
01/07/18 - Unusual feeding behaviour from a Carrion Crow. A new picture of a Many-plumed Moth from a few nights ago. Fixed the links in the mammals section so that when using the Next and Previous page buttons the Roe Deer, Wild Boar and Mouflon are no longer missed out.
26/06/18 - A close encounter of the Peregrine kind at Norwich Cathedral.
25/06/18 - Something a litlle different today, a pink grasshopper! A new picture of a female Large Red damselfly.
22/06/18 - New pictures of a Small Dusty Wave.
20/06/18 - A new picture of a Hedgehog which found itself in an usual place. An insect new to the site and to me, the Barkfly.
18/06/18 - A happy outcome for the nesting Moorhens.
14/06/18 - Pictures of one of the Moorhen parents incubating the nest from 03/06/18. New pictures of juvenile Long-tailed Tits in the garden.
All three Peregrine chicks from the nest on Norwich Cathedral have fledged within the last 24 hours. Here is a picture of one of the juveniles on top of the bell tower.
13/06/18 - A walk down the Yare to Eaton and Marston Marshes produced a species new to the site, the Common Awl Robberfly in an unexpected location. The first picture of a female Four-spotted Chaser on this site and new pictures of a male. A Song Thrush battering a snail. A female Blue-tailed Damselfly with a colour variation new to the site. A new pictures of Azure Damselfly. A new picture of a Sun Fly and Eupeodes latifasciatus, both types of hoverfly.
08/06/18 - A species of moth new to the site, the Small China Mark. A new picture of a Roe Buck. A new picture of a Dock Bug. Another visit by a Silver Y to the house. A new picture of a Grey Squirrel.
04/06/18 - New pictures of a Silver Y moth.
03/06/18 - Some invertebrates from a river walk last week. A species of spider new to the website, a species of long-jawed orb weaver spider, Tetragnatha montana. A species of fly new to the site, from the genus Psila, a Rust fly. The first species of Mayfly (Ephemerata vulgata) on the site. A new picture of a Scorpion fly. Another species new to the site, the interestingly named Downlooker Snipe-Fly. Also by the river, a moorhen's nest. A new picture of the soldier beetle, Cantharis rustica.
30/05/18 - RSPB Strumpshaw Fen was a treasure trove of insect life yesterday. To begin with a couple of norfolk specialities new to the website, the swallowtail butterfly and the Norfolk Hawker dragonfly. Other new species to the site include the Poplar Hawkmoth, Dark Bush-cricket nymph, Hornet, Blue-tailed damselfly, Broad-bodied Chaser, a Variable Damselfly and a species of Broad-shouldered Leaf Beetle, Chrysolina oricalcia. New pictures of Scarce Chaser dragonflies, Azure Damselfly, Large White and green-veined Butterflies. New pictures of Large Red Damselfly and Swollen-thighed Beetle.
Meanwhile, closer to home, a distinctively marked jackdaw. Some species new to the site; a species of crab spider, Philodromus dispar. Swifts! Finally my little point and push camera has managed to photograph a few. New pictures of a cucumber spider. A species of hoverfly new to the site, the greater bulb fly. Another species new to the site, the Figwort weevil. A pair of Lesser Black-backed Gulls sitting on chimney pots.
25/05/18 - An unusual entry today, the nymph of an unidentified species of Mirid bug.
24/05/18 - A new picture featuring both the male and female peregrine on the spire at Norwich Cathedral.
23/05/18 - A New picture of the misleadingly named Large Red Damselfly and a new picture of a Lesser Black-backed Gull.
21/05/18 - An ambition achieved! Some decent quality pictures of an orange-tip butterfly. Then, on the way home, I met an Egyptian goose paddling in the Wensum.
20/05/18 - A male blackbird singing next to a wonky chimney pot.
16/05/18 - A new picture of a Lesser black-backed gull. A new picture of a rather distant male marsh harrier at RSPB Minsmere last Sunday. Two insects new to the site. An encounter with a female glow-worm in Suffolk and A window Gnat on the kitchen wall.
12/05/18 - A new, much better quality picture, of a double-striped pug to replace the really poor picture taken at titchwell last month. Fixed some pretty poor typing and even worse grammar on the peregrine page. Have also fixed the link so that it is now possible to access the Hawk and Owl Trust webcam of the Norwich cathedral peregrines' nest from that page. As indeed you can from the link on this page.
11/05/18 - The insects are out and about. New pictures of a brimstone and a large red damselfly. After the recent toad/frog debacle, a genuine picture of a common frog! some pictures of the male peregrine at Norwich Cathedral. And finally for today, not to everyone's taste, an orange-banded arion.
07/05/18 - Another Dark-edged Bee Fly, with amazing spindly legs.
Fixed the Invertebrates index page which was still listing Bees and Flies together. It now shows the correct page titles for Flies and Ants, Wasps, Bees and Relatives.
04/05/18 - Another species I've been trying to capture a picture of for years, the Orange-tip butterfly. They will never sit still for me! Today, one did, it's a hideously over-exposed picture but it's a beginning. Now I have to do better.
01/05/18 - A species new to the site that I've wanted to capture a picture of for some time, a Dark-edged Bee Fly.
28/04/18 - A couple of new moths for the site, albeit with disappointing quality to the photographs, a couple of Streamers and a Double-striped Pug, both at Titchwell. A better quality picture of a fly species new to the site, Bibio anglicus If you thought flies were boring to look at, have a look at this one! All of these pictures were taken during the brief spell of warm weather last week.
22/04/18 - Whoops! I've just corrected a major error. I'm not sure what I was thinking of but I managed to misidentify toads as frogs! I've just been watching the final episode of Hugh's Wild West which featured toads when a light came on in my head! So, the amorous frogs are in fact amorous toads and have thus been relocated to the correct page. Sorry everyone!
21/04/18 - Final selection from the Easter break in wells. A turnstone in Wells Harbour. Linnets on Kelling Heath. And three species new to the site, the Early Bumblebee, and, Bramblings and a Hawfinch at Titchwell.
18/04/18 - More from North Norfolk. A Red Kite, a Lapwing with spectacular plumes and some Fallow Deer does at Holkham.A Yellowhammer and a Kestrel near Brancaster. A Chiffchaff and some Red-legged Partrige in misty North Norfolk. Finally, a foggy Heron on Blakeney Fresh Marsh. More to come in the next day or so, including three species new to the site.
16/04/18 - Two new entries for the site, a new beetle Oulema rufocyanea/melanopus (the explanation for that mouthful is on the page!) and a very distant Little Ringed Plover. New Pictures of Egyptian Geese at Holkham.
15/04/18 - More pictures from North Norfolk. A new picture of a Marsh Harrier, a male Blackbird in full song. Pictures of skylarks in the air. A curlew filtering mud. A pond skater in a puddle, a species new to this site. New pictures of Lapwing, snipe and pochard at Cley.
14/04/18 - Back from our Easter break in Wells-next-the-Sea. Many new pictures to come over the next few days. To begin with, a curlew in the harbour, muntjac and a weather defying blackbird.
26/03/18 - The allotment is taking up most of my time at the moment. Torrential January rain and then the Beast From the East have put me way behind schedule but here's a greenfinch singing his heart out on the way up there this morning.
19/03/18 - Some garden birds from this morning. A female blackbird showing the importance of having water available during the tenure of the Mini Beast From the East. An irregular visitor to the garden, a magpie, probably also drawn in by the harsh weather.
The "Older" pages are now subdivided by year into 2017 and 2018.
06/03/18 - Now that the Beast From the East has left the East, the birds are back to singinging. To that end, a song thrush singing and a green woodpecker yaffling.
05/03/18 - It's that time of the year, more siskins! This time enjoying today's warm sunshine and only 400 yards from my house.
04/03/18 - Added another snowy starling picture simply because it make me smile.
03/03/18 - of the garden birds, The goldfinches have missed out on snowy pictures this week, so here's a couple on the feeders.
28/02/18 - As The Beast From the east bites into norfolk, a blackbird wading through snow for mealworms. More snowy garden birds; song thrush, starling, great tit, woodpigeon and collared dove. and Finally, this afternoon, a blue tit to add to the set.
26/02/18 - As The Beast From the east approaches, a blackbird in the garden with very cold feet.
25/02/18 - A visit to santom Downham provided me with my first ever parrot crossbill and some new redwing pictures. Anew picture of a rook in with some pigs near great cressingham.
24/02/18 - One of the garden blackbirds illustrating how imprtant it is to keep drinking water available during the cold spell.
21/02/18 - More garden birds. A blue tit feeding on mealworms and a female chaffinch on a feeder.
20/02/18 - The first time I've spotted the jay visiting the garden this winter.
16/02/18 - A small flock of fieldfare outside Ketteringham whilst visiting Ladybelt CP.
15/02/18 - A new portrait of one of the ever obliging canada geese at Whitlingham taken last sunday. Fixed the pochard link below!
12/02/18 - New turnstone pictrures from sheringham. The first new pictures for some time of pochard at whitlingham.
10/02/18 - An unexpected visitor to the garden in the gloom of a february afternoon, a wood mouse.
08/02/18 - It's impossible to get tired of siskin, so here are some more from today! I've also added new pictures of winter plumage common gull and black-headed gull taken during the last few days.
28/01/18 - A quick off the mark robin gathering nesting material. Rediscovered quite a nice picture of a spotted redshank in winter plumage at titchwell from 2011.
25/01/18 - Bright sunshine at Whitlingham revealed a flock of siskin, with a few lesser redpoll mixed in; a treecreeper and tufted ducks.
23/01/18 - A visit to a strangely quiet NWT Cley did however produce pictures of a disappearing otter and a flock of curlew.
18/01/18 - A stroll along Riverside Walk yesterday produced a beady-eyed male blackbird, a blue tit in full voice and an obliging moorhen. In the garden today, female blackbirds and a song thrush.
15/01/18 - a great tit sharing the ivy hedge with a female blackbird in the rain.
11/01/18 - Rather wonderfully, the second pictures of the new year are of a kingfisher in the gloom on Marston Marsh.
07/01/18 - First pictures of the new year, a blue tit in the garden.
24/12/2018 - As They Used To Say In The Beano, A Merry Christmas To All Our Readers! A Couple Of Festive Grey Squirrels Photographed This Morning.
19/12/2018 - A Walk Along The River Yesterday Yields Close Up Pictures Of A Pair Of Egyptian Geese Revealing The Wonder Of Their Plumage. Later, A Solitary Long-Tailed Tit.
16/12/2018 - Some Of The Usual Crowd From Whitlingham CP, Taken Last Friday. New Pictures Of A First Winter And Adult Black-Headed Gulls, A Pair Of Greylag Geese, Duck And Drake Tufted Ducks And A Winter Plumage Great-Crested Grebe.
11/12/2018 - Some Pictures From NWT Thorpe Marshes On Monday. A Couple Of New Pictures Of Female Goldeneye. Not The Best Of Pictures But A Nice Record Of This Species Only A Couple Of Miles From The Centre Of Norwich. New Pictures Of Male And Female Pochard. A Pair Of Cormorants In A Tree.
05/12/2018 - Two New Pictures Of Members Of The Crow Family. A Carrion Crow In Eaton Park And A Rook In Tuckswood.
01/12/2018 - From A Walk Round Whitlingham Yesterday, Some New, Much Improved, Pictures Of A Pair Of Gadwall, An Extremely Under-Appreciated Duck. A New Picture Of A Group Of Tufted Duck. And Finally, An Egyptian Goose Up A Tree.
22/11/2018 - Some Pictures From A Walk Along The Marriott's Way On Wednesday, When It Was Nice... Unlike Today And Tuesday! A Blackbird With A Single White Feather, A Bathing Song Thrush With Friend And A Greenfinch Up A Tree.
16/11/2018 - Have corrected the date on the Red Fox entry to 2018, not 2011! Also from yesterday a type of Hoverfly that I have been unable to pin to species level but which belongs to the genus Syrphus. A flock of Feral Pigeons in Norwich.
15/11/2018 - Finally! Some pictures of a species I've long known to live locally, the Red Fox. A second large mammal of the day, a new picture of a Muntjac.
08/11/2018 - Another species of spider new to the website and possibly relatively new to the country and science! More details on the page about this Linyphiidae species. Whilst reviewing my correspondence with the British Arachnological Society, I came across a species of Harvestman they'd identified for me in August that I hadn't added to the site. so rather belatedly, here is Mitpus Morio.
07/11/2018 - A species of spider new to the website, the mysteriously and rather wonderfully named Missing Sector Orb Weaver.
04/11/2018 - A lovely day out on the east coast of Norfolk at Winterton and inland of Horsey Gap. Species new to the site; Red-throated diver and Snow Bunting. New pictures of species already on the site; Grey Phalarope, Stonechat, Redwing and a grazing Roebuck. Some of the pictures are rather distant but everything is identifiable!
01/11/2018 - A visit from a Buff-tailed Bumblebee last week. I've been reviewing the bee section using Nick Owens' excellent Bees of Norfolk book. It's helped me to make a correction. the Bumblebee first-aid page is actually features a White-tailed Bumblebee. Thank you Mr Owens!
26/10/2018 - A final entry from the visit to Thorpe Marshes earlier in the week, a species new to the website, a very untypical and therefore difficult to identify Common Carder Bee, subsequently confirmed by iSpot. I spent so long pouring through Nick Owens' excellent Bees of Norfolk, that I was not only able to identify the carder bee but also correct a misidentification of a different species. the rather splendidly named Hairy-footed Flower Bee is now correctly identified and labelled.
25/10/2018 - new pictures of a Long-tailed Tit and a Jay in Lion Wood.
23/10/2018 - A visitit to Thorpe Marshes delivers a couple of species new to the site, the Nursery Web Spider, Pisaura mirabilis and a species of Caddis Fly Anabolia nervosa. New pictures of a soaring Common Buzzard.
Back in Earlham Cemetery, more Grey Squirrel pictures. It's that time of year.
16/10/2018 - Four Moth Species New To The Site From Sunday's Trip To RSPB Titchwell; The Sallow, Large Wainscot, Streak And Green-Brindled Crescent. Meanwhile, Back At Home, A Many-Plumed Moth.
15/10/2018 - The Moth Section Of The Website Has Been Restructured So That The Species Are Now Separated Into A Series Of Sub-Indexes Based On Families.
14/10/2018 - A Trip To RSPB Titchwell Provided A Species New To Me And So New To The Site, A Jack Snipe. Also New Pictures Of A Common Frog, A Hawthorn Shield Bug And Oak Bush-Cricket.
13/10/2018 - Some New Pictures Of One Of The Garden Blue Tits Taken During The Week.
10/10/2018 - New Pictures Of Two Mammals Today. A Grey Squirrel Gathering And A Doe Muntjac, Both In Norwich.
06/10/2018 - New Pictures Of A Common Green Shieldbug And The Front Door Strikes Yet Again, With Another Small Dusty Wave.
02/10/2018 - Another Aracnid Visitor, This One New To The Webesite, The False Black Widow, Latin Name Steatoda Grossa, Which I Have Used To Differentiate It From The Noble False Widow, Latin Name Steatoda Nobilis.
01/10/2018 - It's that time of the year; new pictures of a Giant House Spider.
28/09/2018 - Another day, another moth species on the front door; A Small Dusty Wave.
22/09/2018 - The front door strikes again! Another moth new to the site, the splendidly named Large Ranculus.
18/09/2018 - The dragonfly from Lackford has been identified as a Migrant Hawker. More about the confusion on the page. Also a Willow Emerald Damselfly and a pair of Comma butterflies freom Lackford. Up at the allotment, a species of Ground Beetle, Agonum emarginatum. On a walk by the Yare, another Common Frog sitting in the middle of a path.
16/09/18 - A visitit to SWT Lackford Lakes and Cavenham NNR in Suffolk yielded new photographs of Kingfisher and Small Heath butterfly. There are some new dragon and damselfly pictures to come but I'm still ensuring I have the correct id before including them. Then, a lovely surprise on arriving home, a Swallow-tailed Moth on the front door, a species new to the site.
12/09/18 - One final summer addition, this time from The Lakes and a species new to the site, Pale-streak Grass-veneer.
10/09/18 - To "celebrate" the fact that Garden orb web Spiders are everywhere, as usual in september, here's a photograph of the underside of one in its web. A new, much improved, picture of a Mute swan.
09/09/18 - One last picture from Tiree for which I was awaiting confirmation of id. An unfortunate crane fly, Tipula paludosa.
Back at home, another Latin name to contend with, a species of square-headed wasp new to the site, Ectemnius lapidarius.
08/09/18 - The final selection of pictures from Tiree. I've added a couple of pictures of unusual behaviour by a Dunlin to the pictures added on the 1st. A rather damp Song Thrush and then one who's somewhat drier. A couple of pictures showing flocks of Ringed Plover. A new picture of a Meadow Pipit. A new set of pictures of a Grey Seal. A pair of Eider in eclipse plumage. Only the second picture of a Common Sandpiper for the site. A new and much improved picture of the hoverfly, Eupeodes corollae.
Back at home, a new picture of a Dock bug. new to the website, a species of bug, Rhopalus subrufus. A new picture of the hoverfly, Eupeodes latifasciatus.
07/09/18 - More pictures from tiree. A species new to the site, the Cuckoo. A rather distant couple of pictures. A couple of new pictures of a Lapwing. New pictures of House Sparrow, including a juvenile. New pictures of Moss Carder Bee and the Great Yellow Bumblebee. A picture of a juvenile Skylark. New pictures of Another species that has been rather under represented, the Bar-tailed Godwit. A new picture of a Dor Beetle. Coincidentally the only other Dor Beetle on the site is also on Tiree. Finally today, a sleepy juvenile Twite.
04/09/18 - More from Tiree. New pictures of Grey seals. There are good numbers of Twite on the island. These are probably my favourite pictures from the holiday. New pictures of Swallows. Much improved new pictures of rock pipit. New pictures of a juvenile Linnet feeding. A taxon (I had to look that up!) of dragonfly new to the site, the Highland Darter. In light of this, it is possible that there are some pictures on the Common Darter pages that are in fact Highland Darters. I shall be checking in due course.
02/09/18 - New pictures of Brown Hares on Tiree.
01/09/18 - Back from a break on Tiree, the outermost of the Inner Hebrides. New pictures of Hooded Crows. A new picyure of a Wheatear. New pictures of Starlings. A new picture of Oystercatchers. New pictures of an underrepresented species on this website, the Dunlin. A Grey Heron in flight from a slightly unusual angle. More to come over the next few days.
24/08/18 - Fixed the spelling of Scotch Argus! To come in the next week or two, new photographs from Tiree.
02/08/18 - A coastal walk yesterday from West Runton to Sheringham brings a species new to the website, a Black Redstart and new pictures of Red-tailed bumblebee, Five-spot Burnet Moth, an Essex Skipper, a female House Sparrow and a hunting Kestrel.
31/07/18 - A species of Philodromus Crab Spider, which may or or may not be new to the site!
25/07/18 - New and much improved pictures of a Cinnamon Bug. New picturs of a greenfinch on the garden feeders.
19/07/18 - New pictures of a singing Dunnock and a Common Field Grasshopper both at the allotments.
17/07/18 - Very pleased with today's species new to the site; a European Beewolf on the allotment!
15/07/18 - More Gatekeeper butterflies at the gate to Sloughbottom Park.
12/07/18 - A walk round Earlham Cemetery leads to new pictures of Essex Skipper and Ringlet butterfles and the aptly named Flesh Fly.
11/07/18 - Plenty of butterflies around at the moment. New pictures today of Meadow Brown and Gatekeeper. A very photogenic juvenile Robin allowed me take its picture.
09/08/18 - Hedgehogs need our help!
A species of ichneumon wasp new to the site, Ichneumon Xanthorius.
08/07/18 - First picture of a female Reed Bunting for the website. And a form of female Blue-tailed Damselfly new to the website. New pictures of a juvenile Pied Wagtail. All on the marshes at Potter Heigham.
Back at home, Large White butterflies.
06/07/18 - A walk along the Yare from UEA to Eaton, then Eaton and Marston Marshes brought a Grey Heron feeling the heat, a new picture of a male Four-spotted Chaser, new pictures of interesting behaviour from Small White and Green-veined White butterflies. By the Yare, a Meadow Brown feeding.
Back at the allotment, a Brimstone. Meanwhile, some sad news from the allotments, a couple of Hedgehogs have drowned in neighbours' ponds recently. They are desperate for water in this prolonged hot weather. This Tweet and this article from the EDP give good advice on how to help.
03/07/18 - A new picture of a Brown Hawker dragonfly. More unusual feeding behaviour, this time from a Blackbird.
01/07/18 - Unusual feeding behaviour from a Carrion Crow. A new picture of a Many-plumed Moth from a few nights ago. Fixed the links in the mammals section so that when using the Next and Previous page buttons the Roe Deer, Wild Boar and Mouflon are no longer missed out.
26/06/18 - A close encounter of the Peregrine kind at Norwich Cathedral.
25/06/18 - Something a litlle different today, a pink grasshopper! A new picture of a female Large Red damselfly.
22/06/18 - New pictures of a Small Dusty Wave.
20/06/18 - A new picture of a Hedgehog which found itself in an usual place. An insect new to the site and to me, the Barkfly.
18/06/18 - A happy outcome for the nesting Moorhens.
14/06/18 - Pictures of one of the Moorhen parents incubating the nest from 03/06/18. New pictures of juvenile Long-tailed Tits in the garden.
All three Peregrine chicks from the nest on Norwich Cathedral have fledged within the last 24 hours. Here is a picture of one of the juveniles on top of the bell tower.
13/06/18 - A walk down the Yare to Eaton and Marston Marshes produced a species new to the site, the Common Awl Robberfly in an unexpected location. The first picture of a female Four-spotted Chaser on this site and new pictures of a male. A Song Thrush battering a snail. A female Blue-tailed Damselfly with a colour variation new to the site. A new pictures of Azure Damselfly. A new picture of a Sun Fly and Eupeodes latifasciatus, both types of hoverfly.
08/06/18 - A species of moth new to the site, the Small China Mark. A new picture of a Roe Buck. A new picture of a Dock Bug. Another visit by a Silver Y to the house. A new picture of a Grey Squirrel.
04/06/18 - New pictures of a Silver Y moth.
03/06/18 - Some invertebrates from a river walk last week. A species of spider new to the website, a species of long-jawed orb weaver spider, Tetragnatha montana. A species of fly new to the site, from the genus Psila, a Rust fly. The first species of Mayfly (Ephemerata vulgata) on the site. A new picture of a Scorpion fly. Another species new to the site, the interestingly named Downlooker Snipe-Fly. Also by the river, a moorhen's nest. A new picture of the soldier beetle, Cantharis rustica.
30/05/18 - RSPB Strumpshaw Fen was a treasure trove of insect life yesterday. To begin with a couple of norfolk specialities new to the website, the swallowtail butterfly and the Norfolk Hawker dragonfly. Other new species to the site include the Poplar Hawkmoth, Dark Bush-cricket nymph, Hornet, Blue-tailed damselfly, Broad-bodied Chaser, a Variable Damselfly and a species of Broad-shouldered Leaf Beetle, Chrysolina oricalcia. New pictures of Scarce Chaser dragonflies, Azure Damselfly, Large White and green-veined Butterflies. New pictures of Large Red Damselfly and Swollen-thighed Beetle.
Meanwhile, closer to home, a distinctively marked jackdaw. Some species new to the site; a species of crab spider, Philodromus dispar. Swifts! Finally my little point and push camera has managed to photograph a few. New pictures of a cucumber spider. A species of hoverfly new to the site, the greater bulb fly. Another species new to the site, the Figwort weevil. A pair of Lesser Black-backed Gulls sitting on chimney pots.
25/05/18 - An unusual entry today, the nymph of an unidentified species of Mirid bug.
24/05/18 - A new picture featuring both the male and female peregrine on the spire at Norwich Cathedral.
23/05/18 - A New picture of the misleadingly named Large Red Damselfly and a new picture of a Lesser Black-backed Gull.
21/05/18 - An ambition achieved! Some decent quality pictures of an orange-tip butterfly. Then, on the way home, I met an Egyptian goose paddling in the Wensum.
20/05/18 - A male blackbird singing next to a wonky chimney pot.
16/05/18 - A new picture of a Lesser black-backed gull. A new picture of a rather distant male marsh harrier at RSPB Minsmere last Sunday. Two insects new to the site. An encounter with a female glow-worm in Suffolk and A window Gnat on the kitchen wall.
12/05/18 - A new, much better quality picture, of a double-striped pug to replace the really poor picture taken at titchwell last month. Fixed some pretty poor typing and even worse grammar on the peregrine page. Have also fixed the link so that it is now possible to access the Hawk and Owl Trust webcam of the Norwich cathedral peregrines' nest from that page. As indeed you can from the link on this page.
11/05/18 - The insects are out and about. New pictures of a brimstone and a large red damselfly. After the recent toad/frog debacle, a genuine picture of a common frog! some pictures of the male peregrine at Norwich Cathedral. And finally for today, not to everyone's taste, an orange-banded arion.
07/05/18 - Another Dark-edged Bee Fly, with amazing spindly legs.
Fixed the Invertebrates index page which was still listing Bees and Flies together. It now shows the correct page titles for Flies and Ants, Wasps, Bees and Relatives.
04/05/18 - Another species I've been trying to capture a picture of for years, the Orange-tip butterfly. They will never sit still for me! Today, one did, it's a hideously over-exposed picture but it's a beginning. Now I have to do better.
01/05/18 - A species new to the site that I've wanted to capture a picture of for some time, a Dark-edged Bee Fly.
28/04/18 - A couple of new moths for the site, albeit with disappointing quality to the photographs, a couple of Streamers and a Double-striped Pug, both at Titchwell. A better quality picture of a fly species new to the site, Bibio anglicus If you thought flies were boring to look at, have a look at this one! All of these pictures were taken during the brief spell of warm weather last week.
22/04/18 - Whoops! I've just corrected a major error. I'm not sure what I was thinking of but I managed to misidentify toads as frogs! I've just been watching the final episode of Hugh's Wild West which featured toads when a light came on in my head! So, the amorous frogs are in fact amorous toads and have thus been relocated to the correct page. Sorry everyone!
21/04/18 - Final selection from the Easter break in wells. A turnstone in Wells Harbour. Linnets on Kelling Heath. And three species new to the site, the Early Bumblebee, and, Bramblings and a Hawfinch at Titchwell.
18/04/18 - More from North Norfolk. A Red Kite, a Lapwing with spectacular plumes and some Fallow Deer does at Holkham.A Yellowhammer and a Kestrel near Brancaster. A Chiffchaff and some Red-legged Partrige in misty North Norfolk. Finally, a foggy Heron on Blakeney Fresh Marsh. More to come in the next day or so, including three species new to the site.
16/04/18 - Two new entries for the site, a new beetle Oulema rufocyanea/melanopus (the explanation for that mouthful is on the page!) and a very distant Little Ringed Plover. New Pictures of Egyptian Geese at Holkham.
15/04/18 - More pictures from North Norfolk. A new picture of a Marsh Harrier, a male Blackbird in full song. Pictures of skylarks in the air. A curlew filtering mud. A pond skater in a puddle, a species new to this site. New pictures of Lapwing, snipe and pochard at Cley.
14/04/18 - Back from our Easter break in Wells-next-the-Sea. Many new pictures to come over the next few days. To begin with, a curlew in the harbour, muntjac and a weather defying blackbird.
26/03/18 - The allotment is taking up most of my time at the moment. Torrential January rain and then the Beast From the East have put me way behind schedule but here's a greenfinch singing his heart out on the way up there this morning.
19/03/18 - Some garden birds from this morning. A female blackbird showing the importance of having water available during the tenure of the Mini Beast From the East. An irregular visitor to the garden, a magpie, probably also drawn in by the harsh weather.
The "Older" pages are now subdivided by year into 2017 and 2018.
06/03/18 - Now that the Beast From the East has left the East, the birds are back to singinging. To that end, a song thrush singing and a green woodpecker yaffling.
05/03/18 - It's that time of the year, more siskins! This time enjoying today's warm sunshine and only 400 yards from my house.
04/03/18 - Added another snowy starling picture simply because it make me smile.
03/03/18 - of the garden birds, The goldfinches have missed out on snowy pictures this week, so here's a couple on the feeders.
28/02/18 - As The Beast From the east bites into norfolk, a blackbird wading through snow for mealworms. More snowy garden birds; song thrush, starling, great tit, woodpigeon and collared dove. and Finally, this afternoon, a blue tit to add to the set.
26/02/18 - As The Beast From the east approaches, a blackbird in the garden with very cold feet.
25/02/18 - A visit to santom Downham provided me with my first ever parrot crossbill and some new redwing pictures. Anew picture of a rook in with some pigs near great cressingham.
24/02/18 - One of the garden blackbirds illustrating how imprtant it is to keep drinking water available during the cold spell.
21/02/18 - More garden birds. A blue tit feeding on mealworms and a female chaffinch on a feeder.
20/02/18 - The first time I've spotted the jay visiting the garden this winter.
16/02/18 - A small flock of fieldfare outside Ketteringham whilst visiting Ladybelt CP.
15/02/18 - A new portrait of one of the ever obliging canada geese at Whitlingham taken last sunday. Fixed the pochard link below!
12/02/18 - New turnstone pictrures from sheringham. The first new pictures for some time of pochard at whitlingham.
10/02/18 - An unexpected visitor to the garden in the gloom of a february afternoon, a wood mouse.
08/02/18 - It's impossible to get tired of siskin, so here are some more from today! I've also added new pictures of winter plumage common gull and black-headed gull taken during the last few days.
28/01/18 - A quick off the mark robin gathering nesting material. Rediscovered quite a nice picture of a spotted redshank in winter plumage at titchwell from 2011.
25/01/18 - Bright sunshine at Whitlingham revealed a flock of siskin, with a few lesser redpoll mixed in; a treecreeper and tufted ducks.
23/01/18 - A visit to a strangely quiet NWT Cley did however produce pictures of a disappearing otter and a flock of curlew.
18/01/18 - A stroll along Riverside Walk yesterday produced a beady-eyed male blackbird, a blue tit in full voice and an obliging moorhen. In the garden today, female blackbirds and a song thrush.
15/01/18 - a great tit sharing the ivy hedge with a female blackbird in the rain.
11/01/18 - Rather wonderfully, the second pictures of the new year are of a kingfisher in the gloom on Marston Marsh.
07/01/18 - First pictures of the new year, a blue tit in the garden.