2020
31/12/2020 - Norwich Finally Joined In With The Winter Weather That The Rest Of The Country Has Been Experiencing With A Sharp Overnight Frost. New Pictures Of Long-Tailed Tit, Collared Dove, Grey Squirrel And More Disappointing Pictures Of Redwing And Goldcrest.
24/12/2020 - Some Pictures Taken During The Last Couple Of Weeks. A Common Gull On A Local Roof. Grey Squirrels In Earlham Cemetery. A First Winter Blackbird In The Garden.
11/12/2020 - A Jay Searching For Food.
30/11/2020 - A First Winter Juvenile Herring Gull, A Winter Plumage Black-Headed Gull. Indoors, A Window Gnat.
27/11/2020 - A Foggy Morning Caused Birds I Normally Only See Flying By Locally To Come Down; Common Gull And Feral Pigeon.
26/11/2020 - A Couple More Cemetery Birds; Magpie And Some Grainy Goldcrests.
06/10/2020 -An Encounter With One Of The Local Reeves' Muntjac Today. And A Picture Which Had Been Overlooked From A Month Ago When The Sun Still Shone All Day Rather Than For A Couple Of Minutes Every Now And Then, A Nursery Web Spider.
24/11/2020 - Some Cemetery Birds Today; Long-Tailed Tits And A Coal Tit, Robin And Woodpigeon. Some Grey Squirrels.
17/11/2020 - A Tiny Rhyzobius Species Ladybird On The Front Door. New To Me And The Site.
12/11/2020 - Two Unexpected House Guests; A Species New To The Site, A Parent Shieldbug And The Mysteriously Named Missing Sector Orb Weaver.
05/11/2020 - Some Of The Local Starlings In A Familiar Winter Situation.
16/10/2020 - A New Species For Me Today, An Eyed Ladybird In Earlham Cemetery.
23/09/2020 - A Couple Species From Yesterday's Autumn Equinox; Common Darter And Ivy Bee.
21/09/2020 - New Pictures Of A Nuthatch In Earlham Cemetery, Norwich.
18/09/2020 - Only The Second Full Walk Round My Local Patch Since Lockdown. New Pictures Of Tachina Fera, Speckled Wood And Common Darter In The Cemetery. Dock Bug And Common Blue And Small Copper Butterflies Enjoying The September Sunshine On Mile Cross Marsh.
15/09/2020 - More Insects From Earlham Cemetery. I've Been Trying To Photograph Ivy Bees For The Last Few Years But With No Success. Today I Came Across A Flowering Ivy At Eye Level That Was Completely Covered In Them. Another Blood Bee, This Week's Picture Not As Good As Last Week's, So It's At The Bottom Of The Page! It's Getting Late In The Season For Small Copper But I Came Across One Today. Two Species Of Hoverfly; An Unidentified Syrphus Species And Eupeodes Latifasciatus. The Unusual Looking Fly, Tachina Fera. A Hunting Common Darter.
13/09/2020 - A Species New To Me And Thus The Site, A Forget-Me-Not Shieldbug. Also In The Back Garden, A Brown-Lipped Snail In A Slightly Unusual Place.
10/09/2020 - A Couple Of Insects At Home. A Chequered Hoverfly In The Garden And A Silver Y In The Bathroom.
09/09/2020 - Edited Yesterday's Entry For The Blood Bee To Make It Clear That The Name Is A Reference To The Colour And That It's The Nests Of Other Solitary Bees That Are Parasitised, Not The Adults.
08/09/2020 - Things Are Quietening Down In Earlham Cemetery After The Summer Profusion Of Insects, The Vegetation Has Almost All Been Cut Back Now. I Still Managed To Spot A Furrow Bee And, New To The Site, A Blood Bee. Meanwhile, The Grey Squirrels Are Always On Hand.
Two Species Of Moths In The Garden; Small Dusty Wave And The Second Box-Tree Moth Of The Year.
06/09/2020 - A Common Hammock-Weaver On The Bathroom Ceiling.
04/09/2020 - Some Surprises For Me On Mile Cross Marsh This Morning. A Brown Argus And Small Copper That Have Survived The Cold Wet Weather And Something I've Never Witnessed Before, A Pair Of Mating Sun Flies.
03/09/2020 - Added The Word 'Yellow' To Yesterday's Description Of The Migrant Hawker So That It Now Makes Sense.
02/09/2020 - Tidying Up The Back Garden Resulted In New Pictures Of A Giant House Spider And A Female Migrant Hawker.
Looking Back At Some Of The Images I'd Put On ISpot, I Came Across A Couple Of Images I'd Posted In May Last Year Which Were Fianlly Identified In Novemeber! So Here, New To The Site, Is A Harvestman, Platybunus Triangularis From May 2019.
01/09/2020 - A Couple Of Local Favourites; Muntjac And Long-Tailed Tits. I've Discovered Today That There Are 12 Distinct Species Of Muntjac Globally, So I Shall Be Referring To The British Population By Its Full Name, Reeves' Muntjac From Hereon.
New To The Site, A Species Of True Bug, Liocoris Tripustulatus.
26/08/2020 - Some Pictures From Earlier This Week; A Red Admiral In The Back Garden And A 5th Instar Common Green Shieldbug In Earlham Cemetery.
22/08/2020 - Some Pictures From Earlier In The Summer For Which I Had To Wait To Have The Id Confirmed; A Furrow Bee, Genus Lassioglossum.
21/08/2020 - A Light Brown Apple Moth Visits The Living Room. A Juvenile Goldfinch Moulting Into Adult Plumage.
18/08/2020 - For The First Time Since Lockdown, I Walked My Usual 'Patch' Route This Morning. A Species New To The Website, A Species Of Hoverfly, Myathropa Florea; New Pictures Of Large White, Gatekeeper And Common Blue Butterflies; Southern Hawker And Migrant Hawker Dragonflies And Last But Not Least, The Interesting Fly, Eriothrix Rufomaculata.
11/07/2020 - A Couple Of Attractive Moths At Home; Yellow Shell And Silver Y.
10/08/2020 - A Mixed Bag Today. From In The Garden Over The Last Week The First New Pictures Of Garden Pebble For Many Years, A Rather Fascinating Lacewing Larva And The Return Of Regular Visits From Goldfinches .
Meanwhile In Earlham Cemetery, The Great Profusion Of Grassland Butterfly Species So Evident Over The Last Few Weeks Is Coming To A Close, Far Fewer On Show Today. Still Plenty Of Common Darter And Harlequin Ladybird To See.
05/08/2020 - Another Insect-Rich Day At Earlham Cemetery. New To The Site, My First Ever Black-Headed Cardinal Beetle. The First Picture This Year Of A Common Blue Butterfly. New Pictures Of Its Close Relative, Brown Argus. New Pictures Of Gatekeeper And Speckled Wood. Two Species Of Dragonfly, Migrant Hawker And Common Darter.
02/08/2020 - At The Allotment, A Turnip Moth. On The Way Home A Chance Encounter With An Poplar Hawk Moth Caterpillar.
31/07/2020 - A Couple Of Common Darters And A Holly Blue In Earlham Cemetery.
29/07/2020 - For The First Time Since Lockdown, I Went Further Afield Than My Local Area, To Marston Marsh. Unfortunately, A Particularly Strong And Gusty Breeze Meant That Flying Insects Were Few And Far Between. New Pictures Of Long Hoverfly, Large White And Essex Skipper Butterflies, Common Froghopper And The First New Picture Of A Rabbit For Three Years!
Close To Home, A Riband Wave.
23/07/2020 - A Lovely Surprise Visitor To The Back Garden, A Migrant Hawker. Rescued From The Kitchen, A Tapered Drone Fly.
21/07/2020 - Another Morning Full Of Butterflies In Earlham Cemetery: My First Small Copper In The Cemetery; My Second Brown Argus; Gatekeeper, Red Admiral And Essex Skipper. Two Different Forms Of Harlequin Ladybird And A Straw Grass-Veneer Moth. Finally, An Id Fresh In From ISpot, An Extraordinary Looking Fly, Sicus Ferrugineus, A Species Of Thick-Headed Fly And Completely New To Me.
19/07/2020 - An Unanticipated Back Garden Visitor, Fourteen-Spot Ladybird.
15/07/2020 - Photographs From Earlier This Week.
At The Allotment; Finally, After Years Of Looking I Finally Came Across A Two-Spot Ladybird, They Were Much More Common When I Was Young; Greenfinch; New To The Site A Late Instar Of The Ant Damsel Bug.
In The Back Garden, A Hoverfly, Eupeodes Luniger.
In Earlham Cemetery On Monday, Two Species New To The Site, Brown Argus Butterfly And Mother Of Pearl Moth. New Pictures: Hoverflies; Sun Fly And Pellucid Fly. Butterflies; Speckled Wood, Green-Veined White, Essex Skipper And Gatekeeper; A Fourth Instar Common Green Shieldbug, And A Couple Of Juvenile Long-Tailed Tits.
12/07/2020 - It Occurred To Me Today That We've Only Got About A Month Left To Enjoy This Year's Swifts. They Are Very Hard To Capture With A Point And Press Camera!
10/07/2020 - Insects In A Cool And Mostly Overcast Earlham Cemetery This Morning. Butterflies; Comma, Meadow Brown, Ringlet, Large White, A Red-Tailed Bumblebee And A Single Dragonfly, A Common Darter.
08/07/2020 - I Seem To Have Been Very Confused Yesterday And Put The Picture Of The Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Inanis Onto The Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Zonaria Page. All Fixed Now.
07/07/2020 - A Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Inanis And A Lasioglossum Furrow Bee, In The Back Garden.
06/07/2020 - The First New Picture Of A Small Skipper For Several Years. New To The Site, A Summer Chafer At The Allotment. The First Garden Juvenile Goldfinch Of The Summer.
01/07/2020 - A Muntjac Down By The Wensum.
30/06/2020 - A Walk Around Earlham Cemetery Produced New Pictures Of Four Species Of Butterflies: Comma, Ringlet, Meadow Brown And Speckled Wood; Two Beetle Species: Swollen-Thighed Beetle, A Pollen Beetle And Three Hoverfly Species: Marmalade Fly, Sun Fly And An Unidentified Syrphus Species.
25/06/2020 - Another Rescue From The Shed. Today It's Ichneumon Xanthorius. Meanwhile, On The Living Room Wall, A Common Pug.
23/06/2020 - A Box Tree Moth In The Back Garden.
22/06/2020 - At The Allotment This Morning, The Male Whitethroat Singing And A Yellow Shell.
21/06/2020 - From A Couple Of Days Ago, The Garden Juvenile Dunnock, Looking Particularly Winsome.
18/06/2020 - A New Species For Me And Thus The Site From Earlham Cemetery Earlier This Week, A Furrow Bee, Genus Lasioglossum.
16/06/2020 - An Insect Rich Stroll Around Earlham Cemetery This Morning. Butterflies; Large Skipper, Meadow Brown And Peacock Caterpillars. Hoverflies; Tapered Drone Fly And Sun Fly. Beetles; Female Swollen-Thighed Beetle And Spotted Longhorn. A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee And A Common Blue Damselfly.
At Home, A Lesser Black-Backed Gull On A Neighbour's Roof.
12/06/2020 - A Couple Of Garden Birds. A Parent And Fledgling Dunnock And The First Appearance For Some Time Of A Collared Dove.
On The Front Door, A Philodromus Dispar Spider.
05/06/2020 - Two Insects. New To The Site, A True Bug Megacoelum Infusum And New Pictures Of The Rather Splendid Ichneumon, Amblyteles Armatorius.
03/06/2020 - At The Allotment, A Visit From A Female Linnet. The Female Whitethroat From The Other Day.
01/06/2020 - From The Allotment Yesterday, A Whitethroat, Garden Chafer And A Blackbird Bathing With The Leeks.
Today In Earlham Cemetery, Buff-Tailed And Tree Bumblebee.
At Home, A Common Blue Damselfly.
29/05/2020 - A Song Thrush On My Way To The Allotment.
28/05/2020 - Three Pictures From Yesterday. Two Of A Freshly Fledged Blue Tit Chick. And One Of A Swollen-Thighed Beetle.
From A Few Days Ago, A Black Lace-Weaver Spider In The Shed.
25/05/2020 - Pictures From My Well-Being Walk Around Earlham Cemetery Today. The First Four-Spotted Chaser I've Seen There. The First Picture Of The Soldier Beetle Species, Cantharis Rustica For A Couple Of Years. New To The Site, A Species Of Robberfly Genus Dioctria.
Later In The Day, Buff-Tailed Bumblebees In The Garden.
24/05/2020 - On The Way Home From The Allotment, My First Banded Demoiselle Of The Year.
21/05/2020 - Walking To The Allotment Yesterday, A Male Blackcap Sang Right In Front Of Me. Not The Greatest Picture Ever Taken But I So Rarely Manage To Get A Photograph Of This Species I've Included It. A New Picture Of The Micro Moth Species, Common Pug.
18/05/2020 - Three Insects Today. At Home A Species Of Ichneumon Wasp And A Tree Bumblebee. On My Exercise Walk Round Earlham Cemetery, My First Damselfly Of The Year, Large Red Damselfly.
11/05/2020 - A New Picture Of One Of The Local Muntjac, Taken During My Exercise Walk. A New Picture Of The Hoverfly Species Eupeodes Latifasciatus.
09/05/2020 - From The Allotment, The First Picture Of A Starling This Year, Showing A Beautiful Purple Sheen. Back At Home, Tapered Drone Fly.
05/05/2020 - A Light Brown Apple Moth In The Shed Yesterday Evening.
04/05/2020 - Two Insects Today Both In The Front Garden. New To The Site, A Beetle Species, Anthocomus Fasciatus And A Hawthorn Shieldbug.
02/05/2020 - A Back Garden Bee Fly.
28/04/2020 - A Couple Of Garden Visitors New To The Site From Over The Weekend. A Species Of Fly, Bibio Johannis And A Species Of Hoverfly, Meliscaeva Auricollis.
23/04/2020 - A Couple Of Back Garden Insects. New To Me And Therefore To The Site, A Species Of Hoverfly, Epistrophe Eligans. The First New Picture Of A Hairy-Footed Flower Bee For Many Years. Still Not A Very Good One Though!
22/04/2020 - On The Way To The Allotment This Morning, My First Speckled Wood Of The Year.
21/04/2020 - Pictures From The Back Garden; A Dunnock And A Tree Bumblebee.
17/04/2020 - On My Permitted Exercise This Morning, A Singing Wren And A New Picture Of A Syrphus Genus Hoverfly.
16/04/2020 - A Couple Images From A Trip To The Allotment Yesterday. Foraging Song Thrushes, A Yellow-Legged Mining Bee And A Greater Water Boatman.
13/04/2020 - Updated The Links On The Peregrine Page To This Year's Hawk And Owl Trust Live Webcams On The Norwich Cathedral Nest.
10/04/2020 - Last Night I Encountered The Unfortunately Named But Beautifully Marked, Spitting Spider In My Kitchen. New To The Site.
09/04/2020 - Some Pictures From My Permitted Exercise At The Allotment Yesterday. New To The Site, A Species Of Nomad Bee. New Pictures Of The Female Blackbird Exploiting My Digging And, Unaccountably, The First New Pictures Of A Peacock Butterfly For Three Years.
07/04/2020 - Took My Permitted Exercise Walk In Earlham Cemetery Today. A New Picture Of A Magpie And My First Bee Fly Of The Year.
06/04/2020 - From The Sunny Back Garden Yesterday Afternoon, New Pictures Of A Zebra Spider.
This Evening, A Lovely Surprise Visitor In The Garden, A Hedgehog.
04/04/2020 - Birds And Invertebrates From The Back Garden. New Pictures Of Blackbird, Blue Tit, Honey Bee And Cellar Spider.
01/04/2020 - A Jay In What Was A Very Busy Earlham Cemetery, Taken During My Permitted Exercise Walk Yesterday.
26/03/2020 - My First Sighting Of A Chiffchaff This Year! High In A Tree. Meanwhile, The Return To The Garden Feeders Of Old Friends, The Goldfinches.
24/03/2020 - Two Species Of Local Birds On A Neighbour's Roof. Lesser Black-Backed Gull And Jackdaw.
23/03/2020 - Two Species Of Garden Birds Today. A Pair Of Half Obscured Greenfinches And The Terrifying Dunnock That Scared Them Off!
22/03/2020 - Two Insects Today. New Pictures Of An Owl Midge And A Small Tortoiseshell, Both Photographed In Socially Isolated Situations.
12/03/2020 - Caught Up With One Of The Local Muntjac Yesterday, A Beautifully Marked Buck.
In The Garden This Afternoon, Blackbirds Eating Mealworms And An Opportunist Robin.
10/03/2020 - The First Ladybird Of The Year, A Seven-Spot, In The Garden.
02/03/2020 - New Pictures From Norwich; The Resident Female Peregrine At The Cathedral And A Pair Of Song Thrushes.
Corrected The Identification Of The Red-Breasted Merganser From Yesterday Which Is A First Winter Male. Thanks To Peter Walton For That Information.
01/03/2020 - Another Wild And Blustery Day On The North Norfolk Coast. New Pictures Of A First Winter Male Red-Breasted Merganser And New To The Site, White-Fronted Goose.
25/02/2020 - A Walk Round The Local Patch In Norwich Which Is Still Very Quiet. New Pictures Of Muntjac, Grey Squirrel And Long-Tailed Tit.
23/02/2020 - Concluding The Pictures From Wells. New Pictures Of Little Grebe, House Sparrow, Brent Geese, Grey Plover, Curlew, Little Egret, Ringed Plover And Greenshank. A Series Of Photographs Showing A Common Seal Hauling Out On Wells Beach. First New Pictures Of Goldcrest And Pink-Footed Geese For Quite Some Time. New Picture Of A Stonechat. New To The Site, Pictures Of The Rough-Legged Buzzard That Has Taken Up Residency Near Wells; These Are Not Award Winning Images By Any Means! Courting Pied Wagtails. And Finally, No Visit To Wells Is Complete Without At Least One New Picture Of Brown Hares.
22/02/2020 - First Batch Of Photographs From A Week In Wells-Next-The-Sea. New Pictures Of Flea Beetle, Juvenile Great Black-Backed Gull, Herring Gull, Pied Wagtail, Kestrel, Fallow Deer, Little Grebe, Wigeon, Snow Bunting, Muntjac, Sky Dancing Marsh Harriers, Goldeneye, Teal, Grey Plover, First Pictures Of Individual Knot, Greylag Geese, Barn Owl And Great Tit. More To Follow.
14/02/2020 Yesterday, I Forgot To Mention The Mute Swan Pictures I Included From Whitlingham. Given What They're Up To, They Do Seem More Appropriate For Valentine's Day!
From This Afternoon, New To The Website, A Species Of Barkfly, Ectoposcus Briggsi.
13/02/2020 - A Walk Round Whitlingham CP. New Pictures Of Long-Tailed Tits, Common Gull, Canada Goose, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Tufted Duck And Robin.
06/02/2020 - A Greater-Spotted Woodpecker In A Wood By The Wensum.
05/02/2020 - A Quiet Morning At NWT Thorpe Marshes Still Produced New Pictures Of Kestrel, Moorhen, Robin And Stonechat. As Is Becoming The Norm, A Pied Wagtail On The Way Home.
This Morning Was A Trial Run For My New Camera. A Promising Start...
02/02/2020 - A Greylag Goose At RSPB Strumpshaw Fen.
31/01/2020 - A New Picture Of The Male Peregrine At Norwich Cathedral.
12/01/2020 - 0A Morning Out In North Norfolk. New Pictures Of Snow Bunting And Grey Partridge. And A Species New To The Site, The Common Scoter. A Very Distant Image But It Does Give The Tiniest Impression Of The Size Of The Flock.
10/01/2020 - A Lone Stonechat Feeding At NWT Thorpe Marshes.
08/01/2020 - A Visit To Marston Marsh LNR. New Pictures Of A Redwing, Grey Heron And Carrion Crow.
07/01/2020 - A Pair Of Dabchick.
04/01/2020 - First Pictures From 2020, A Pair Of Greenfinches In The Garden.
01/01/2020 - A Happy New Year To All Our Readers!
First, From Yesterday, House Sparrows And Turnstones At Sheringham.
31/12/2020 - Norwich Finally Joined In With The Winter Weather That The Rest Of The Country Has Been Experiencing With A Sharp Overnight Frost. New Pictures Of Long-Tailed Tit, Collared Dove, Grey Squirrel And More Disappointing Pictures Of Redwing And Goldcrest.
24/12/2020 - Some Pictures Taken During The Last Couple Of Weeks. A Common Gull On A Local Roof. Grey Squirrels In Earlham Cemetery. A First Winter Blackbird In The Garden.
11/12/2020 - A Jay Searching For Food.
30/11/2020 - A First Winter Juvenile Herring Gull, A Winter Plumage Black-Headed Gull. Indoors, A Window Gnat.
27/11/2020 - A Foggy Morning Caused Birds I Normally Only See Flying By Locally To Come Down; Common Gull And Feral Pigeon.
26/11/2020 - A Couple More Cemetery Birds; Magpie And Some Grainy Goldcrests.
06/10/2020 -An Encounter With One Of The Local Reeves' Muntjac Today. And A Picture Which Had Been Overlooked From A Month Ago When The Sun Still Shone All Day Rather Than For A Couple Of Minutes Every Now And Then, A Nursery Web Spider.
24/11/2020 - Some Cemetery Birds Today; Long-Tailed Tits And A Coal Tit, Robin And Woodpigeon. Some Grey Squirrels.
17/11/2020 - A Tiny Rhyzobius Species Ladybird On The Front Door. New To Me And The Site.
12/11/2020 - Two Unexpected House Guests; A Species New To The Site, A Parent Shieldbug And The Mysteriously Named Missing Sector Orb Weaver.
05/11/2020 - Some Of The Local Starlings In A Familiar Winter Situation.
16/10/2020 - A New Species For Me Today, An Eyed Ladybird In Earlham Cemetery.
23/09/2020 - A Couple Species From Yesterday's Autumn Equinox; Common Darter And Ivy Bee.
21/09/2020 - New Pictures Of A Nuthatch In Earlham Cemetery, Norwich.
18/09/2020 - Only The Second Full Walk Round My Local Patch Since Lockdown. New Pictures Of Tachina Fera, Speckled Wood And Common Darter In The Cemetery. Dock Bug And Common Blue And Small Copper Butterflies Enjoying The September Sunshine On Mile Cross Marsh.
15/09/2020 - More Insects From Earlham Cemetery. I've Been Trying To Photograph Ivy Bees For The Last Few Years But With No Success. Today I Came Across A Flowering Ivy At Eye Level That Was Completely Covered In Them. Another Blood Bee, This Week's Picture Not As Good As Last Week's, So It's At The Bottom Of The Page! It's Getting Late In The Season For Small Copper But I Came Across One Today. Two Species Of Hoverfly; An Unidentified Syrphus Species And Eupeodes Latifasciatus. The Unusual Looking Fly, Tachina Fera. A Hunting Common Darter.
13/09/2020 - A Species New To Me And Thus The Site, A Forget-Me-Not Shieldbug. Also In The Back Garden, A Brown-Lipped Snail In A Slightly Unusual Place.
10/09/2020 - A Couple Of Insects At Home. A Chequered Hoverfly In The Garden And A Silver Y In The Bathroom.
09/09/2020 - Edited Yesterday's Entry For The Blood Bee To Make It Clear That The Name Is A Reference To The Colour And That It's The Nests Of Other Solitary Bees That Are Parasitised, Not The Adults.
08/09/2020 - Things Are Quietening Down In Earlham Cemetery After The Summer Profusion Of Insects, The Vegetation Has Almost All Been Cut Back Now. I Still Managed To Spot A Furrow Bee And, New To The Site, A Blood Bee. Meanwhile, The Grey Squirrels Are Always On Hand.
Two Species Of Moths In The Garden; Small Dusty Wave And The Second Box-Tree Moth Of The Year.
06/09/2020 - A Common Hammock-Weaver On The Bathroom Ceiling.
04/09/2020 - Some Surprises For Me On Mile Cross Marsh This Morning. A Brown Argus And Small Copper That Have Survived The Cold Wet Weather And Something I've Never Witnessed Before, A Pair Of Mating Sun Flies.
03/09/2020 - Added The Word 'Yellow' To Yesterday's Description Of The Migrant Hawker So That It Now Makes Sense.
02/09/2020 - Tidying Up The Back Garden Resulted In New Pictures Of A Giant House Spider And A Female Migrant Hawker.
Looking Back At Some Of The Images I'd Put On ISpot, I Came Across A Couple Of Images I'd Posted In May Last Year Which Were Fianlly Identified In Novemeber! So Here, New To The Site, Is A Harvestman, Platybunus Triangularis From May 2019.
01/09/2020 - A Couple Of Local Favourites; Muntjac And Long-Tailed Tits. I've Discovered Today That There Are 12 Distinct Species Of Muntjac Globally, So I Shall Be Referring To The British Population By Its Full Name, Reeves' Muntjac From Hereon.
New To The Site, A Species Of True Bug, Liocoris Tripustulatus.
26/08/2020 - Some Pictures From Earlier This Week; A Red Admiral In The Back Garden And A 5th Instar Common Green Shieldbug In Earlham Cemetery.
22/08/2020 - Some Pictures From Earlier In The Summer For Which I Had To Wait To Have The Id Confirmed; A Furrow Bee, Genus Lassioglossum.
21/08/2020 - A Light Brown Apple Moth Visits The Living Room. A Juvenile Goldfinch Moulting Into Adult Plumage.
18/08/2020 - For The First Time Since Lockdown, I Walked My Usual 'Patch' Route This Morning. A Species New To The Website, A Species Of Hoverfly, Myathropa Florea; New Pictures Of Large White, Gatekeeper And Common Blue Butterflies; Southern Hawker And Migrant Hawker Dragonflies And Last But Not Least, The Interesting Fly, Eriothrix Rufomaculata.
11/07/2020 - A Couple Of Attractive Moths At Home; Yellow Shell And Silver Y.
10/08/2020 - A Mixed Bag Today. From In The Garden Over The Last Week The First New Pictures Of Garden Pebble For Many Years, A Rather Fascinating Lacewing Larva And The Return Of Regular Visits From Goldfinches .
Meanwhile In Earlham Cemetery, The Great Profusion Of Grassland Butterfly Species So Evident Over The Last Few Weeks Is Coming To A Close, Far Fewer On Show Today. Still Plenty Of Common Darter And Harlequin Ladybird To See.
05/08/2020 - Another Insect-Rich Day At Earlham Cemetery. New To The Site, My First Ever Black-Headed Cardinal Beetle. The First Picture This Year Of A Common Blue Butterfly. New Pictures Of Its Close Relative, Brown Argus. New Pictures Of Gatekeeper And Speckled Wood. Two Species Of Dragonfly, Migrant Hawker And Common Darter.
02/08/2020 - At The Allotment, A Turnip Moth. On The Way Home A Chance Encounter With An Poplar Hawk Moth Caterpillar.
31/07/2020 - A Couple Of Common Darters And A Holly Blue In Earlham Cemetery.
29/07/2020 - For The First Time Since Lockdown, I Went Further Afield Than My Local Area, To Marston Marsh. Unfortunately, A Particularly Strong And Gusty Breeze Meant That Flying Insects Were Few And Far Between. New Pictures Of Long Hoverfly, Large White And Essex Skipper Butterflies, Common Froghopper And The First New Picture Of A Rabbit For Three Years!
Close To Home, A Riband Wave.
23/07/2020 - A Lovely Surprise Visitor To The Back Garden, A Migrant Hawker. Rescued From The Kitchen, A Tapered Drone Fly.
21/07/2020 - Another Morning Full Of Butterflies In Earlham Cemetery: My First Small Copper In The Cemetery; My Second Brown Argus; Gatekeeper, Red Admiral And Essex Skipper. Two Different Forms Of Harlequin Ladybird And A Straw Grass-Veneer Moth. Finally, An Id Fresh In From ISpot, An Extraordinary Looking Fly, Sicus Ferrugineus, A Species Of Thick-Headed Fly And Completely New To Me.
19/07/2020 - An Unanticipated Back Garden Visitor, Fourteen-Spot Ladybird.
15/07/2020 - Photographs From Earlier This Week.
At The Allotment; Finally, After Years Of Looking I Finally Came Across A Two-Spot Ladybird, They Were Much More Common When I Was Young; Greenfinch; New To The Site A Late Instar Of The Ant Damsel Bug.
In The Back Garden, A Hoverfly, Eupeodes Luniger.
In Earlham Cemetery On Monday, Two Species New To The Site, Brown Argus Butterfly And Mother Of Pearl Moth. New Pictures: Hoverflies; Sun Fly And Pellucid Fly. Butterflies; Speckled Wood, Green-Veined White, Essex Skipper And Gatekeeper; A Fourth Instar Common Green Shieldbug, And A Couple Of Juvenile Long-Tailed Tits.
12/07/2020 - It Occurred To Me Today That We've Only Got About A Month Left To Enjoy This Year's Swifts. They Are Very Hard To Capture With A Point And Press Camera!
10/07/2020 - Insects In A Cool And Mostly Overcast Earlham Cemetery This Morning. Butterflies; Comma, Meadow Brown, Ringlet, Large White, A Red-Tailed Bumblebee And A Single Dragonfly, A Common Darter.
08/07/2020 - I Seem To Have Been Very Confused Yesterday And Put The Picture Of The Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Inanis Onto The Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Zonaria Page. All Fixed Now.
07/07/2020 - A Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Inanis And A Lasioglossum Furrow Bee, In The Back Garden.
06/07/2020 - The First New Picture Of A Small Skipper For Several Years. New To The Site, A Summer Chafer At The Allotment. The First Garden Juvenile Goldfinch Of The Summer.
01/07/2020 - A Muntjac Down By The Wensum.
30/06/2020 - A Walk Around Earlham Cemetery Produced New Pictures Of Four Species Of Butterflies: Comma, Ringlet, Meadow Brown And Speckled Wood; Two Beetle Species: Swollen-Thighed Beetle, A Pollen Beetle And Three Hoverfly Species: Marmalade Fly, Sun Fly And An Unidentified Syrphus Species.
25/06/2020 - Another Rescue From The Shed. Today It's Ichneumon Xanthorius. Meanwhile, On The Living Room Wall, A Common Pug.
23/06/2020 - A Box Tree Moth In The Back Garden.
22/06/2020 - At The Allotment This Morning, The Male Whitethroat Singing And A Yellow Shell.
21/06/2020 - From A Couple Of Days Ago, The Garden Juvenile Dunnock, Looking Particularly Winsome.
18/06/2020 - A New Species For Me And Thus The Site From Earlham Cemetery Earlier This Week, A Furrow Bee, Genus Lasioglossum.
16/06/2020 - An Insect Rich Stroll Around Earlham Cemetery This Morning. Butterflies; Large Skipper, Meadow Brown And Peacock Caterpillars. Hoverflies; Tapered Drone Fly And Sun Fly. Beetles; Female Swollen-Thighed Beetle And Spotted Longhorn. A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee And A Common Blue Damselfly.
At Home, A Lesser Black-Backed Gull On A Neighbour's Roof.
12/06/2020 - A Couple Of Garden Birds. A Parent And Fledgling Dunnock And The First Appearance For Some Time Of A Collared Dove.
On The Front Door, A Philodromus Dispar Spider.
05/06/2020 - Two Insects. New To The Site, A True Bug Megacoelum Infusum And New Pictures Of The Rather Splendid Ichneumon, Amblyteles Armatorius.
03/06/2020 - At The Allotment, A Visit From A Female Linnet. The Female Whitethroat From The Other Day.
01/06/2020 - From The Allotment Yesterday, A Whitethroat, Garden Chafer And A Blackbird Bathing With The Leeks.
Today In Earlham Cemetery, Buff-Tailed And Tree Bumblebee.
At Home, A Common Blue Damselfly.
29/05/2020 - A Song Thrush On My Way To The Allotment.
28/05/2020 - Three Pictures From Yesterday. Two Of A Freshly Fledged Blue Tit Chick. And One Of A Swollen-Thighed Beetle.
From A Few Days Ago, A Black Lace-Weaver Spider In The Shed.
25/05/2020 - Pictures From My Well-Being Walk Around Earlham Cemetery Today. The First Four-Spotted Chaser I've Seen There. The First Picture Of The Soldier Beetle Species, Cantharis Rustica For A Couple Of Years. New To The Site, A Species Of Robberfly Genus Dioctria.
Later In The Day, Buff-Tailed Bumblebees In The Garden.
24/05/2020 - On The Way Home From The Allotment, My First Banded Demoiselle Of The Year.
21/05/2020 - Walking To The Allotment Yesterday, A Male Blackcap Sang Right In Front Of Me. Not The Greatest Picture Ever Taken But I So Rarely Manage To Get A Photograph Of This Species I've Included It. A New Picture Of The Micro Moth Species, Common Pug.
18/05/2020 - Three Insects Today. At Home A Species Of Ichneumon Wasp And A Tree Bumblebee. On My Exercise Walk Round Earlham Cemetery, My First Damselfly Of The Year, Large Red Damselfly.
11/05/2020 - A New Picture Of One Of The Local Muntjac, Taken During My Exercise Walk. A New Picture Of The Hoverfly Species Eupeodes Latifasciatus.
09/05/2020 - From The Allotment, The First Picture Of A Starling This Year, Showing A Beautiful Purple Sheen. Back At Home, Tapered Drone Fly.
05/05/2020 - A Light Brown Apple Moth In The Shed Yesterday Evening.
04/05/2020 - Two Insects Today Both In The Front Garden. New To The Site, A Beetle Species, Anthocomus Fasciatus And A Hawthorn Shieldbug.
02/05/2020 - A Back Garden Bee Fly.
28/04/2020 - A Couple Of Garden Visitors New To The Site From Over The Weekend. A Species Of Fly, Bibio Johannis And A Species Of Hoverfly, Meliscaeva Auricollis.
23/04/2020 - A Couple Of Back Garden Insects. New To Me And Therefore To The Site, A Species Of Hoverfly, Epistrophe Eligans. The First New Picture Of A Hairy-Footed Flower Bee For Many Years. Still Not A Very Good One Though!
22/04/2020 - On The Way To The Allotment This Morning, My First Speckled Wood Of The Year.
21/04/2020 - Pictures From The Back Garden; A Dunnock And A Tree Bumblebee.
17/04/2020 - On My Permitted Exercise This Morning, A Singing Wren And A New Picture Of A Syrphus Genus Hoverfly.
16/04/2020 - A Couple Images From A Trip To The Allotment Yesterday. Foraging Song Thrushes, A Yellow-Legged Mining Bee And A Greater Water Boatman.
13/04/2020 - Updated The Links On The Peregrine Page To This Year's Hawk And Owl Trust Live Webcams On The Norwich Cathedral Nest.
10/04/2020 - Last Night I Encountered The Unfortunately Named But Beautifully Marked, Spitting Spider In My Kitchen. New To The Site.
09/04/2020 - Some Pictures From My Permitted Exercise At The Allotment Yesterday. New To The Site, A Species Of Nomad Bee. New Pictures Of The Female Blackbird Exploiting My Digging And, Unaccountably, The First New Pictures Of A Peacock Butterfly For Three Years.
07/04/2020 - Took My Permitted Exercise Walk In Earlham Cemetery Today. A New Picture Of A Magpie And My First Bee Fly Of The Year.
06/04/2020 - From The Sunny Back Garden Yesterday Afternoon, New Pictures Of A Zebra Spider.
This Evening, A Lovely Surprise Visitor In The Garden, A Hedgehog.
04/04/2020 - Birds And Invertebrates From The Back Garden. New Pictures Of Blackbird, Blue Tit, Honey Bee And Cellar Spider.
01/04/2020 - A Jay In What Was A Very Busy Earlham Cemetery, Taken During My Permitted Exercise Walk Yesterday.
26/03/2020 - My First Sighting Of A Chiffchaff This Year! High In A Tree. Meanwhile, The Return To The Garden Feeders Of Old Friends, The Goldfinches.
24/03/2020 - Two Species Of Local Birds On A Neighbour's Roof. Lesser Black-Backed Gull And Jackdaw.
23/03/2020 - Two Species Of Garden Birds Today. A Pair Of Half Obscured Greenfinches And The Terrifying Dunnock That Scared Them Off!
22/03/2020 - Two Insects Today. New Pictures Of An Owl Midge And A Small Tortoiseshell, Both Photographed In Socially Isolated Situations.
12/03/2020 - Caught Up With One Of The Local Muntjac Yesterday, A Beautifully Marked Buck.
In The Garden This Afternoon, Blackbirds Eating Mealworms And An Opportunist Robin.
10/03/2020 - The First Ladybird Of The Year, A Seven-Spot, In The Garden.
02/03/2020 - New Pictures From Norwich; The Resident Female Peregrine At The Cathedral And A Pair Of Song Thrushes.
Corrected The Identification Of The Red-Breasted Merganser From Yesterday Which Is A First Winter Male. Thanks To Peter Walton For That Information.
01/03/2020 - Another Wild And Blustery Day On The North Norfolk Coast. New Pictures Of A First Winter Male Red-Breasted Merganser And New To The Site, White-Fronted Goose.
25/02/2020 - A Walk Round The Local Patch In Norwich Which Is Still Very Quiet. New Pictures Of Muntjac, Grey Squirrel And Long-Tailed Tit.
23/02/2020 - Concluding The Pictures From Wells. New Pictures Of Little Grebe, House Sparrow, Brent Geese, Grey Plover, Curlew, Little Egret, Ringed Plover And Greenshank. A Series Of Photographs Showing A Common Seal Hauling Out On Wells Beach. First New Pictures Of Goldcrest And Pink-Footed Geese For Quite Some Time. New Picture Of A Stonechat. New To The Site, Pictures Of The Rough-Legged Buzzard That Has Taken Up Residency Near Wells; These Are Not Award Winning Images By Any Means! Courting Pied Wagtails. And Finally, No Visit To Wells Is Complete Without At Least One New Picture Of Brown Hares.
22/02/2020 - First Batch Of Photographs From A Week In Wells-Next-The-Sea. New Pictures Of Flea Beetle, Juvenile Great Black-Backed Gull, Herring Gull, Pied Wagtail, Kestrel, Fallow Deer, Little Grebe, Wigeon, Snow Bunting, Muntjac, Sky Dancing Marsh Harriers, Goldeneye, Teal, Grey Plover, First Pictures Of Individual Knot, Greylag Geese, Barn Owl And Great Tit. More To Follow.
14/02/2020 Yesterday, I Forgot To Mention The Mute Swan Pictures I Included From Whitlingham. Given What They're Up To, They Do Seem More Appropriate For Valentine's Day!
From This Afternoon, New To The Website, A Species Of Barkfly, Ectoposcus Briggsi.
13/02/2020 - A Walk Round Whitlingham CP. New Pictures Of Long-Tailed Tits, Common Gull, Canada Goose, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Tufted Duck And Robin.
06/02/2020 - A Greater-Spotted Woodpecker In A Wood By The Wensum.
05/02/2020 - A Quiet Morning At NWT Thorpe Marshes Still Produced New Pictures Of Kestrel, Moorhen, Robin And Stonechat. As Is Becoming The Norm, A Pied Wagtail On The Way Home.
This Morning Was A Trial Run For My New Camera. A Promising Start...
02/02/2020 - A Greylag Goose At RSPB Strumpshaw Fen.
31/01/2020 - A New Picture Of The Male Peregrine At Norwich Cathedral.
12/01/2020 - 0A Morning Out In North Norfolk. New Pictures Of Snow Bunting And Grey Partridge. And A Species New To The Site, The Common Scoter. A Very Distant Image But It Does Give The Tiniest Impression Of The Size Of The Flock.
10/01/2020 - A Lone Stonechat Feeding At NWT Thorpe Marshes.
08/01/2020 - A Visit To Marston Marsh LNR. New Pictures Of A Redwing, Grey Heron And Carrion Crow.
07/01/2020 - A Pair Of Dabchick.
04/01/2020 - First Pictures From 2020, A Pair Of Greenfinches In The Garden.
01/01/2020 - A Happy New Year To All Our Readers!
First, From Yesterday, House Sparrows And Turnstones At Sheringham.