Older 2021
31/12/2021 - A Rather Splendid Day On The Local Patch. New Pictures Of Grey Wagtail, Bullfinch And Siskin. Happy New Year.
30/12/2021 - Some Pictures From The Cemetery This Week; Green Woodpecker, Buzzard And More Siskins.
26/12/2021 - An Absolute Delight To Come Across A Flock Of Siskins In The Cemetery This Week. Meanwhile, Back At Home A Second Winter Moth This Month.
18/12/2021 - Picture From This Week. A Winter Moth (Actually Name, As Well As Description!) At Home; Further Afield, A Grey Heron And Little Egret.
10/12/2021 - Pictures From This Week; A Third Winter Juvenile Herring Gull, A Ventral View Of A Nuthatch And A Grey Squirrel.
03/12/2021 - Photographs From This Week; Freshly Plumaged Mallard, A Little Grebe And Perfectly Capturing The Mood Of This Morning, A Grey Heron.
25/11/2021 - A Couple Of Recent Encounters. An Adult Winter Plumage Herring Gull And A Buck Reeves' Muntjac.
15/112021 - A Fortnight To Catch Up With. Firstly Pictures From A Trip To NWT Cley Marshes; Marsh Harrier, Cormorant, Little Egret And Pink-Footed Geese.
Closer To Home, New Pictures Of Common Gull, Moorhen And Common Froghopper.
29/10/2021 - Time To Catch Up With The Week. New Pictures Of Grey Squirrel, Jay, Black-Headed Gull, Red Admiral And Speckled Wood.
24/10/2021 - A Trip Down The A47 To Great Yarmouth. New Pictures Of Red-Throated Diver, Little Egret And Greater Black-Backed Gull.
From Last Week, An Unusually Marked Garden Spider. An Usually Marked Common Wasp Which I Posted On ISpot Last Week Led To An Identification Guide Which Has Helped With Distinguishing Common Wasp From German Wasp.
14/10/2021 - A Common Darter In The Cemetery.
13/10/2021 - A Species I Hear Regularly But Haven't Caught On Camera For 18 Months, Greater-Spotted Woodpecker.
A Couple Of Gull Species In The Cemetery The Other Day. Common Gull And A First Winter Juvenile Herring Gull.
09/10/2021 - Some Pictures From This Week; Speckled Bush-Cricket, Woodpigeon And Grey Squirrel.
The Second Part Of The Restructuring Of The Moth Section Has Begun. There Are Now Links Between Pages Of Members In The Plume, Carpet, Pug, Footman, Rustic, Wave And Sallow Families
05/10/2021 - The First Part Of The Restructuring Of The Moth Section Is Now Complete So That It Is Possible To Look Through Alphabetically. Family Groupings Coming Soon.
04/10/2021 - A Trip To RSPB Titchwell Marsh. New To The Sight A Moth, The Dark Rustic. New Wader Pictures; Golden Plover And Dunlin. New Pictures Of A Toad.
28/09/2021 - The Acorn Crop Has Failed This Year. Two Species That Will Be Particularly Affected By This; Jay And Grey Squirrel.
27/09/2021 - Some Pictures From Last Week; My First Ivy Bees Of The Year And A Common Darter.
12/09/2021 - A Trip To RSPB Snettisham At High Tide. There Were Many Thousands Of Birds To See But Most Were Too Far Away For The Camera. First Pictures A Sanderling And A Flock Of Oystercatchers For Several Years
09/09/2021 - A Trip To RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. New Pictures Of Common Darter And Ruddy Darter, Willow Emerald Damselfly, Mute Swan, Little Egret And Hobby.
Back At Home, A Visit From A Speckled Bush-Cricket.
02/09/2021 - One Of The Local Reeves' Muntjac.
29/08/2021 - A Surprise Ring-Necked Parakeet At Marston Marshes.
26/08/2021 - Some Recent Moths; Yellow Shell, Elbow-Stripe Grass-Veneer And The Caterpillar Of A Vapourer.
16/08/21 - A Couple Of Species That Haven't Appeared For Years Today; A Rather Ragged Mint Moth In The Back Garden And A Black-Tailed Skimmer At Blicking . Also From Blickling, A New Picture Of A Gatekeeper.
13/08/2021 - This Week Brought A Visit To RSPB Strumpshaw Fen For The First Time Since Before The Pandemic. New Pictures Of Great-Crested Grebe, Juvenile And Parent; Juvenile Spotted Flycatcher; Ruddy Darter; Brimstone, Painted Lady And Female Banded Demoiselle.
In Earlham Cemetery, Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, V. Zonaria And A Rosy Tabby Moth.
In The Garden, A Species Of Digger Wasp, Genus Ectemnius And A Green Bottle Fly.
And Finally, A Species Of Ichneumon That Took Some Time To Identify And Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Expertise Available On ISpot, Hoplismenus Bidentatus.
08/08/2021 - Time To Catch Up With The Last Week. New Pictures Of Butterflies: Common Blue, Essex Skipper And Painted Lady; Beetles: Spotted Longhorn And Common Soldier; Eriothrix Rufomaculata Fly; A Box-Tree Moth And A Six-Spot Burnet Moth; Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Zonaria; Dragonflies: Common Darter And Migrant Hawker; A Common Green Lacewing; First New Pictures Of A Buzzard For 3 Years! Two Species New To The Site; Red-Belted Clearwing Moth And Red-Legged Shieldbug.
01/08/2021 - Another Fantastic Morning For Insects In Earlham Cemetery. New Pictures Of Common Blue And Small Skipper. The First Pictures This Year Of Brown Argus And Small Copper Butterflies. A Species New To Me And Therefore The Site, Roesel's Bush-Cricket.
30/07/2021 - A Trip To Waxham Yesterday. Common Tern And Sandwich Tern, A Lone Razorbill. A Migrant Hawker In The Dunes.
Back At Home, A Gatekeeper In The Garden.
This Morning, In The Cemetery Migrant Hawker And Southern Hawker And My First Common Blue Butterfly Of The Year.
25/07/2021 - A Great Afternoon For Invertebrates In Earlham Cemetery Yesterday. Butterflies: Ringlet, Small Skipper, Essex Skipper And Gatekeeper; Dragonflies: Brown Hawker And Common Darter; A Nursery Web Spider; Flies: A Golden-Tabbed Robberfly And A Tachinid Species, Dexiosoma Caninum.
22/07/2021 - At Last, Some Skippers In Earlham Cemetery; Large Skipper And Small Skipper. A New Picture Of A Box-Tree Moth. New To The Site, An Unidentified Species Of Gall Wasp In The Family Cynipidae.
Later In The Afternoon, A Painted Lady In The Back Garden.
21/07/2021 - A Small White And A Sun Fly In The Back Garden. Posting The Picture Of The Sun Fly, I Noticed That Last Year I Had Misidentified Helophilus Hybridus And Posted It Onto The Sun Fly's Page. H. Hybridus Is A Species New To The Site And Now Has Its Own Page.
20/07/2021 - A New Species Of Moth For Me, The Small Grey Eudonia Mercurella. An Underwhelming Name For Such An Intricately Marked Creature. Up At The Allotment This Morning, My First Gatekeepers Of The Year. Also Up At The Allotment, A Crab Spider, Genus Xysticus.
All The Links On The Moth Index Page Are Now Working, Although The Inter-Page Links Still Require Updating.
16/07/2021 - An Insect New To Me, A Sixteen-Spot Ladybird.
13/07/2021 - I Had My First Trip Out Of Norwich For 16 Months Ten Days Ago Which Resulted In Me Seeing My First Swallows And House Martins For 2 Years. No Pictures Of Them, Unfortunately But A Whitethroat Sang From A Bush.
Back In Earlham Cemetery, The Butterflies Are Slowly, Slowly Emerging. New Pictures Of Red Admiral And My First Ringlets Of The Year. New Pictures Of A Much Grown Juvenile Green Woodpecker. And An Unsual Occurence, A Melanistic Box-Tree Moth.
01/07/2021 - A Picture Of A Juvenile Green Woodpecker In The Cemetery. I Believe I Have Finally Sorted Out My Confusion Over Spotted Cranefly And Tiger Cranefly.
27/06/2021 - The Moth Section Is Currently Undergoing A Redesign. As A Result, Not All Of The Pages Are Currently Accessible.
26/06/2021 - I've Fixed A Couple Of Errors. The Yellow-Barred Long-Horn Moth Now Has A
Link. Yesterday I Found A Picture Of The Fly Nowickia Ferox On The Pellucid Fly Page. This Has Now Been Rectified.
25/06/2021 - Plenty Of Insects From Earlier In The Week. Red Admiral And Meadow Brown Butterflies. A Yellow-Barred Long-Horn Moth, A Species New To Me. As Are The Beetle Species Welsh Chafer And Stenurella Melanura, A Longhorn Beetle. My First Pellucid Fly And Norfolk Hawker Of The Summer. A Rather Lost Banded Demoiselle.
Two Birds; A Recently Fledged Wren And New Pictures Of A Magpie.
17/06/2021 - Invertebrates Are Definititely To The Fore Now. Two Species New To The Site, A Tiger Cranefly And A Non-Biting Midge Chironomidae. My First Meadow Brown, Scorpion Fly And Dock Bug Of The Year. A Male Banded Demoiselle.
15/06/2021 - More Invertebrates. A New Picture Of A Zebra Spider. This Year's First Picture Of A Banded Demoiselle, A Female. New To The Site, The Varied Carpet Beetle.
11/06/2021 - A New Picture Of A Heart And Dart At The Allotment.
05/06/2021 - From Earlier This Week, A Female Broad-Bodied Chaser.
03/06/2021 - Finds So Far This Week Include Two Species New To Me, The Hairy Dragonfly And Cream-Spot Ladybird. Also The Broad-Shouldered Leaf Beetle, Chrysolina Oricalcia; A Garden Chafer And An Unidentified Nomada Bee Species.
28/05/2021 - Two Insects Today. Red Mason Bee And, New To Me And The Site, The Impressive Birch Sawfly.
27/5/2021 - A Few Things From This Week. The Picture I've Been Trying To Take Of A Male Orange-Tip Butterfly Finally Happened. A Picture Of An Arion Slug. A New Picture Of A Singing Male Chiffchaff, Surprisingly Right Out In The Open.
19/05/2021 - The First Odonata Of The Year; A Large Red Damselfly.
18/05/2021 - A Bit Of Warm Sun This Morning Certainly Brought The Insects Out. New Pictures Of Early Bumblebee, Red Mason Bee, Hairy Shieldbug And Seven-Spot Ladybird. Plenty Of Avian Action Too. New Pictures Of Jay, Stock Dove And Blackcap.
And Finally, New To The Site, A Couple Of Unsatisfactory Pictures Of A St Mark's Fly Which Came And Sat On Me Last Week.
16/05/2021 - Time To Catch Up With The Last Week And A Half. Several Species New To The Site: A Crab Spider, Diaea Dorsata; A Hoverfly Species, Cheilosia Albitaris/Ranuculi; An Ant Species, The Negro Ant, Formica Fusca.
New Pictures Of Ring-Necked Parakeets, Whitethroat, Chaffinch, Flesh Fly, Pollen Beetles, Reeves' Muntjac And A Seven-Spot Ladybird
06/05/2021 - Well Worth A Soaking In The Abysmal Weather This Morning, A Singing Grey Wagtail On The Wensum.
03/05/2021 - A Picture From Last Friday Of A Worker Buff-Tailed Bumblebee.
29/04/2021 - My First Picture This Year Of An Orange-Tip Butterfly.
28/04/2021 - Time For A Catch Up With This Week. The Further Adventures Of The Visiting Dark-Edged Bee Fly. A Song Thrush In The Cemetery. Two Hoverfly Species In The Back Garden; Common Drone Fly And Eupeodes Luniger.
25/04/2021 - An Unexpected Visitor; A Dark-Edged Bee Fly.
20/04/2021 - Some Pictures From Yesterday. A Singing Song Thrush, A Glorious Example Of A Peacock Butterfly And My First Dark-Edged Bee Flies Of The Year.
And From Today, My First Speckled Wood Of The Year.
18/04/2021 - A Species New To Me In The Back Garden This Afternoon, Red Mason Bee.
17/04/2021 - Today In The Back Garden, The First Holly Blue Of The Year And Improved Pictures Of Hairy-Footed Flower Bees.
Yesterday In Earlham Cemetery: This Is Definitely The Time Of Year For Photographing Wrens. New Picture Of A Blue Tit And The Attempt To Get A Good Photograph Of A Hairy-Footed Flower Bee Continues.
14/04/2021 - New Pictures Of A Group Of Reeves' Muntjac, A Nuthatch Hard At Work And A Singing Wren.
13/04/2021 - Another New Blackcap Picture!
10/04/2021 - Two Species Which Will Shortly Disappear Into The Newly Emerging Foliage; Blackcap And Chiffchaff.
07/04/2021 - A New Wren Picture.
06/04/2021 - First New Picture Of A Stock Dove For Over Two Years. A Moulting Buck Reeves' Muntjac.
04/04/2021 - Happy Easter! First New Picture Of A Many-Plumed Moth For Two And A Half Years. Still Trying To Catch A Good Picture Of A Male Hairy-Footed Flower Bee.
31/03/2021 - A New Picture Of A Greenfinch. My First Hoverfly Of The Year, A Drone Fly.
30/03/2021 - An Absolutely Glorious Morning In Norwich Yielded New Pictures Of Jay, Chiffchaff, Sparrowhawk And Wren. Peacock Butterflies Abounded.
29/03/2021 - Updated The Links To The Norwich And Cromer Peregrines Live Webcams And Included A Link To The Norwich Blog.
27/03/2021 - My First Picture Of A Male Hairy-Footed Flower Bee.
24/03/2021 - Pictures From The Last Couple Of Days. Two Songsters; A Song Thrush And A Chiffchaff. A Young Reeves' Muntjac.
22/03/2021 - New Improved Pictures Of A Goldcrest. My First Comma Of The Year. And A Good Day For Seeing Reeves' Muntjac.
18/03/2021 - A Dunnock Singing By The Cemetery Gate. A Juvenile Herring Gull With A Beak Deformity. And At Last, A Much Better Sparrowhawk Picture.
17/03/2021 - One Of They Key Moments In The Naturalist's Year, The First Singing Chiffchaff.
12/03/2021 - Some Birds From A Breezy, Showery Week In Norwich; Blue Tit, Carrion Crow And Herring Gull.
05/03/2021 - Two Species Of Birds Which Make Their Presence Known Very Loudly But Are Not Always Easy To Photograph; Green Woodpecker And Wren.
04/03/2021 - The Quest For A Decent Goldcrest Picture Continues. And A Grey Squirrel Eating What Appears To Be A Gingernut.
27/02/2021 - One Last Picture From The Beautiful Day On Wednesday, A Queen Early Bumblebee In Earlham Cemetery.
25/02/2021 - Pictures From The Last Fortnight. The Return Of Goldfinches To The Garden. A Jay And Blackbirds In The Garden. A Grainy Picture Of A Grey Heron On Sweet Briar Marsh. In Earlham Cemetery; Jay, Great Tit, Magpie And Robin. But The Big News During The Last Couple Of Days Has Been The Re-Emergence Of Insects. Buff-Tailed Bumblebee, Honey Bee And A Peacock Butterfly, All In Earlham Cemetery.
07/02/2021 - Pictures From Last Week Of Long-Tailed Tits And Goldcrest In Earlham Cemetery.
01/02/2021 - A Buck Reeves' Muntjac In Earlham Cemetery.
31/01/2021 - Some Pictures From The Last Week. A New Entry In My Series Of Disappointing Sparrowhawk Images. New Pictures Of Blue Tit, Blackbird And Robin. And A New Picture Of A Grey Squirrel With A Nut.
23/01/2020 - Another Redwing Visiting Earlham Cemetery And One Of The Resident Magpies.
16/01/2021 - Another Cold Morning And More Busy Birds In Earlham Cemetery. An Impressive Flock Of 50 Redwing, Carrion Crow, Jay And Nuthatch.
13/01/2021 - A Frosty Morning Meant The Bird Were Very Busy In Earlham Cemetery This Morning. Pictures Of Jay With Acorn, Carrion Crow, Slightly Improved Photographs Of A Goldcrest And He Undoubted Star Of This Morning, Green Woodpecker.
11/01/2021 - A Nuthatch In Earlham Cemetery This Morning.
04/01/2021 - I Encountered Three Of The Local Reeves' Muntjac This Morning. However, Only One Was Kind Enough To Pause And Be Photographed.
30/12/2021 - Some Pictures From The Cemetery This Week; Green Woodpecker, Buzzard And More Siskins.
26/12/2021 - An Absolute Delight To Come Across A Flock Of Siskins In The Cemetery This Week. Meanwhile, Back At Home A Second Winter Moth This Month.
18/12/2021 - Picture From This Week. A Winter Moth (Actually Name, As Well As Description!) At Home; Further Afield, A Grey Heron And Little Egret.
10/12/2021 - Pictures From This Week; A Third Winter Juvenile Herring Gull, A Ventral View Of A Nuthatch And A Grey Squirrel.
03/12/2021 - Photographs From This Week; Freshly Plumaged Mallard, A Little Grebe And Perfectly Capturing The Mood Of This Morning, A Grey Heron.
25/11/2021 - A Couple Of Recent Encounters. An Adult Winter Plumage Herring Gull And A Buck Reeves' Muntjac.
15/112021 - A Fortnight To Catch Up With. Firstly Pictures From A Trip To NWT Cley Marshes; Marsh Harrier, Cormorant, Little Egret And Pink-Footed Geese.
Closer To Home, New Pictures Of Common Gull, Moorhen And Common Froghopper.
29/10/2021 - Time To Catch Up With The Week. New Pictures Of Grey Squirrel, Jay, Black-Headed Gull, Red Admiral And Speckled Wood.
24/10/2021 - A Trip Down The A47 To Great Yarmouth. New Pictures Of Red-Throated Diver, Little Egret And Greater Black-Backed Gull.
From Last Week, An Unusually Marked Garden Spider. An Usually Marked Common Wasp Which I Posted On ISpot Last Week Led To An Identification Guide Which Has Helped With Distinguishing Common Wasp From German Wasp.
14/10/2021 - A Common Darter In The Cemetery.
13/10/2021 - A Species I Hear Regularly But Haven't Caught On Camera For 18 Months, Greater-Spotted Woodpecker.
A Couple Of Gull Species In The Cemetery The Other Day. Common Gull And A First Winter Juvenile Herring Gull.
09/10/2021 - Some Pictures From This Week; Speckled Bush-Cricket, Woodpigeon And Grey Squirrel.
The Second Part Of The Restructuring Of The Moth Section Has Begun. There Are Now Links Between Pages Of Members In The Plume, Carpet, Pug, Footman, Rustic, Wave And Sallow Families
05/10/2021 - The First Part Of The Restructuring Of The Moth Section Is Now Complete So That It Is Possible To Look Through Alphabetically. Family Groupings Coming Soon.
04/10/2021 - A Trip To RSPB Titchwell Marsh. New To The Sight A Moth, The Dark Rustic. New Wader Pictures; Golden Plover And Dunlin. New Pictures Of A Toad.
28/09/2021 - The Acorn Crop Has Failed This Year. Two Species That Will Be Particularly Affected By This; Jay And Grey Squirrel.
27/09/2021 - Some Pictures From Last Week; My First Ivy Bees Of The Year And A Common Darter.
12/09/2021 - A Trip To RSPB Snettisham At High Tide. There Were Many Thousands Of Birds To See But Most Were Too Far Away For The Camera. First Pictures A Sanderling And A Flock Of Oystercatchers For Several Years
09/09/2021 - A Trip To RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. New Pictures Of Common Darter And Ruddy Darter, Willow Emerald Damselfly, Mute Swan, Little Egret And Hobby.
Back At Home, A Visit From A Speckled Bush-Cricket.
02/09/2021 - One Of The Local Reeves' Muntjac.
29/08/2021 - A Surprise Ring-Necked Parakeet At Marston Marshes.
26/08/2021 - Some Recent Moths; Yellow Shell, Elbow-Stripe Grass-Veneer And The Caterpillar Of A Vapourer.
16/08/21 - A Couple Of Species That Haven't Appeared For Years Today; A Rather Ragged Mint Moth In The Back Garden And A Black-Tailed Skimmer At Blicking . Also From Blickling, A New Picture Of A Gatekeeper.
13/08/2021 - This Week Brought A Visit To RSPB Strumpshaw Fen For The First Time Since Before The Pandemic. New Pictures Of Great-Crested Grebe, Juvenile And Parent; Juvenile Spotted Flycatcher; Ruddy Darter; Brimstone, Painted Lady And Female Banded Demoiselle.
In Earlham Cemetery, Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, V. Zonaria And A Rosy Tabby Moth.
In The Garden, A Species Of Digger Wasp, Genus Ectemnius And A Green Bottle Fly.
And Finally, A Species Of Ichneumon That Took Some Time To Identify And Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Expertise Available On ISpot, Hoplismenus Bidentatus.
08/08/2021 - Time To Catch Up With The Last Week. New Pictures Of Butterflies: Common Blue, Essex Skipper And Painted Lady; Beetles: Spotted Longhorn And Common Soldier; Eriothrix Rufomaculata Fly; A Box-Tree Moth And A Six-Spot Burnet Moth; Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, Volucella Zonaria; Dragonflies: Common Darter And Migrant Hawker; A Common Green Lacewing; First New Pictures Of A Buzzard For 3 Years! Two Species New To The Site; Red-Belted Clearwing Moth And Red-Legged Shieldbug.
01/08/2021 - Another Fantastic Morning For Insects In Earlham Cemetery. New Pictures Of Common Blue And Small Skipper. The First Pictures This Year Of Brown Argus And Small Copper Butterflies. A Species New To Me And Therefore The Site, Roesel's Bush-Cricket.
30/07/2021 - A Trip To Waxham Yesterday. Common Tern And Sandwich Tern, A Lone Razorbill. A Migrant Hawker In The Dunes.
Back At Home, A Gatekeeper In The Garden.
This Morning, In The Cemetery Migrant Hawker And Southern Hawker And My First Common Blue Butterfly Of The Year.
25/07/2021 - A Great Afternoon For Invertebrates In Earlham Cemetery Yesterday. Butterflies: Ringlet, Small Skipper, Essex Skipper And Gatekeeper; Dragonflies: Brown Hawker And Common Darter; A Nursery Web Spider; Flies: A Golden-Tabbed Robberfly And A Tachinid Species, Dexiosoma Caninum.
22/07/2021 - At Last, Some Skippers In Earlham Cemetery; Large Skipper And Small Skipper. A New Picture Of A Box-Tree Moth. New To The Site, An Unidentified Species Of Gall Wasp In The Family Cynipidae.
Later In The Afternoon, A Painted Lady In The Back Garden.
21/07/2021 - A Small White And A Sun Fly In The Back Garden. Posting The Picture Of The Sun Fly, I Noticed That Last Year I Had Misidentified Helophilus Hybridus And Posted It Onto The Sun Fly's Page. H. Hybridus Is A Species New To The Site And Now Has Its Own Page.
20/07/2021 - A New Species Of Moth For Me, The Small Grey Eudonia Mercurella. An Underwhelming Name For Such An Intricately Marked Creature. Up At The Allotment This Morning, My First Gatekeepers Of The Year. Also Up At The Allotment, A Crab Spider, Genus Xysticus.
All The Links On The Moth Index Page Are Now Working, Although The Inter-Page Links Still Require Updating.
16/07/2021 - An Insect New To Me, A Sixteen-Spot Ladybird.
13/07/2021 - I Had My First Trip Out Of Norwich For 16 Months Ten Days Ago Which Resulted In Me Seeing My First Swallows And House Martins For 2 Years. No Pictures Of Them, Unfortunately But A Whitethroat Sang From A Bush.
Back In Earlham Cemetery, The Butterflies Are Slowly, Slowly Emerging. New Pictures Of Red Admiral And My First Ringlets Of The Year. New Pictures Of A Much Grown Juvenile Green Woodpecker. And An Unsual Occurence, A Melanistic Box-Tree Moth.
01/07/2021 - A Picture Of A Juvenile Green Woodpecker In The Cemetery. I Believe I Have Finally Sorted Out My Confusion Over Spotted Cranefly And Tiger Cranefly.
27/06/2021 - The Moth Section Is Currently Undergoing A Redesign. As A Result, Not All Of The Pages Are Currently Accessible.
26/06/2021 - I've Fixed A Couple Of Errors. The Yellow-Barred Long-Horn Moth Now Has A
Link. Yesterday I Found A Picture Of The Fly Nowickia Ferox On The Pellucid Fly Page. This Has Now Been Rectified.
25/06/2021 - Plenty Of Insects From Earlier In The Week. Red Admiral And Meadow Brown Butterflies. A Yellow-Barred Long-Horn Moth, A Species New To Me. As Are The Beetle Species Welsh Chafer And Stenurella Melanura, A Longhorn Beetle. My First Pellucid Fly And Norfolk Hawker Of The Summer. A Rather Lost Banded Demoiselle.
Two Birds; A Recently Fledged Wren And New Pictures Of A Magpie.
17/06/2021 - Invertebrates Are Definititely To The Fore Now. Two Species New To The Site, A Tiger Cranefly And A Non-Biting Midge Chironomidae. My First Meadow Brown, Scorpion Fly And Dock Bug Of The Year. A Male Banded Demoiselle.
15/06/2021 - More Invertebrates. A New Picture Of A Zebra Spider. This Year's First Picture Of A Banded Demoiselle, A Female. New To The Site, The Varied Carpet Beetle.
11/06/2021 - A New Picture Of A Heart And Dart At The Allotment.
05/06/2021 - From Earlier This Week, A Female Broad-Bodied Chaser.
03/06/2021 - Finds So Far This Week Include Two Species New To Me, The Hairy Dragonfly And Cream-Spot Ladybird. Also The Broad-Shouldered Leaf Beetle, Chrysolina Oricalcia; A Garden Chafer And An Unidentified Nomada Bee Species.
28/05/2021 - Two Insects Today. Red Mason Bee And, New To Me And The Site, The Impressive Birch Sawfly.
27/5/2021 - A Few Things From This Week. The Picture I've Been Trying To Take Of A Male Orange-Tip Butterfly Finally Happened. A Picture Of An Arion Slug. A New Picture Of A Singing Male Chiffchaff, Surprisingly Right Out In The Open.
19/05/2021 - The First Odonata Of The Year; A Large Red Damselfly.
18/05/2021 - A Bit Of Warm Sun This Morning Certainly Brought The Insects Out. New Pictures Of Early Bumblebee, Red Mason Bee, Hairy Shieldbug And Seven-Spot Ladybird. Plenty Of Avian Action Too. New Pictures Of Jay, Stock Dove And Blackcap.
And Finally, New To The Site, A Couple Of Unsatisfactory Pictures Of A St Mark's Fly Which Came And Sat On Me Last Week.
16/05/2021 - Time To Catch Up With The Last Week And A Half. Several Species New To The Site: A Crab Spider, Diaea Dorsata; A Hoverfly Species, Cheilosia Albitaris/Ranuculi; An Ant Species, The Negro Ant, Formica Fusca.
New Pictures Of Ring-Necked Parakeets, Whitethroat, Chaffinch, Flesh Fly, Pollen Beetles, Reeves' Muntjac And A Seven-Spot Ladybird
06/05/2021 - Well Worth A Soaking In The Abysmal Weather This Morning, A Singing Grey Wagtail On The Wensum.
03/05/2021 - A Picture From Last Friday Of A Worker Buff-Tailed Bumblebee.
29/04/2021 - My First Picture This Year Of An Orange-Tip Butterfly.
28/04/2021 - Time For A Catch Up With This Week. The Further Adventures Of The Visiting Dark-Edged Bee Fly. A Song Thrush In The Cemetery. Two Hoverfly Species In The Back Garden; Common Drone Fly And Eupeodes Luniger.
25/04/2021 - An Unexpected Visitor; A Dark-Edged Bee Fly.
20/04/2021 - Some Pictures From Yesterday. A Singing Song Thrush, A Glorious Example Of A Peacock Butterfly And My First Dark-Edged Bee Flies Of The Year.
And From Today, My First Speckled Wood Of The Year.
18/04/2021 - A Species New To Me In The Back Garden This Afternoon, Red Mason Bee.
17/04/2021 - Today In The Back Garden, The First Holly Blue Of The Year And Improved Pictures Of Hairy-Footed Flower Bees.
Yesterday In Earlham Cemetery: This Is Definitely The Time Of Year For Photographing Wrens. New Picture Of A Blue Tit And The Attempt To Get A Good Photograph Of A Hairy-Footed Flower Bee Continues.
14/04/2021 - New Pictures Of A Group Of Reeves' Muntjac, A Nuthatch Hard At Work And A Singing Wren.
13/04/2021 - Another New Blackcap Picture!
10/04/2021 - Two Species Which Will Shortly Disappear Into The Newly Emerging Foliage; Blackcap And Chiffchaff.
07/04/2021 - A New Wren Picture.
06/04/2021 - First New Picture Of A Stock Dove For Over Two Years. A Moulting Buck Reeves' Muntjac.
04/04/2021 - Happy Easter! First New Picture Of A Many-Plumed Moth For Two And A Half Years. Still Trying To Catch A Good Picture Of A Male Hairy-Footed Flower Bee.
31/03/2021 - A New Picture Of A Greenfinch. My First Hoverfly Of The Year, A Drone Fly.
30/03/2021 - An Absolutely Glorious Morning In Norwich Yielded New Pictures Of Jay, Chiffchaff, Sparrowhawk And Wren. Peacock Butterflies Abounded.
29/03/2021 - Updated The Links To The Norwich And Cromer Peregrines Live Webcams And Included A Link To The Norwich Blog.
27/03/2021 - My First Picture Of A Male Hairy-Footed Flower Bee.
24/03/2021 - Pictures From The Last Couple Of Days. Two Songsters; A Song Thrush And A Chiffchaff. A Young Reeves' Muntjac.
22/03/2021 - New Improved Pictures Of A Goldcrest. My First Comma Of The Year. And A Good Day For Seeing Reeves' Muntjac.
18/03/2021 - A Dunnock Singing By The Cemetery Gate. A Juvenile Herring Gull With A Beak Deformity. And At Last, A Much Better Sparrowhawk Picture.
17/03/2021 - One Of They Key Moments In The Naturalist's Year, The First Singing Chiffchaff.
12/03/2021 - Some Birds From A Breezy, Showery Week In Norwich; Blue Tit, Carrion Crow And Herring Gull.
05/03/2021 - Two Species Of Birds Which Make Their Presence Known Very Loudly But Are Not Always Easy To Photograph; Green Woodpecker And Wren.
04/03/2021 - The Quest For A Decent Goldcrest Picture Continues. And A Grey Squirrel Eating What Appears To Be A Gingernut.
27/02/2021 - One Last Picture From The Beautiful Day On Wednesday, A Queen Early Bumblebee In Earlham Cemetery.
25/02/2021 - Pictures From The Last Fortnight. The Return Of Goldfinches To The Garden. A Jay And Blackbirds In The Garden. A Grainy Picture Of A Grey Heron On Sweet Briar Marsh. In Earlham Cemetery; Jay, Great Tit, Magpie And Robin. But The Big News During The Last Couple Of Days Has Been The Re-Emergence Of Insects. Buff-Tailed Bumblebee, Honey Bee And A Peacock Butterfly, All In Earlham Cemetery.
07/02/2021 - Pictures From Last Week Of Long-Tailed Tits And Goldcrest In Earlham Cemetery.
01/02/2021 - A Buck Reeves' Muntjac In Earlham Cemetery.
31/01/2021 - Some Pictures From The Last Week. A New Entry In My Series Of Disappointing Sparrowhawk Images. New Pictures Of Blue Tit, Blackbird And Robin. And A New Picture Of A Grey Squirrel With A Nut.
23/01/2020 - Another Redwing Visiting Earlham Cemetery And One Of The Resident Magpies.
16/01/2021 - Another Cold Morning And More Busy Birds In Earlham Cemetery. An Impressive Flock Of 50 Redwing, Carrion Crow, Jay And Nuthatch.
13/01/2021 - A Frosty Morning Meant The Bird Were Very Busy In Earlham Cemetery This Morning. Pictures Of Jay With Acorn, Carrion Crow, Slightly Improved Photographs Of A Goldcrest And He Undoubted Star Of This Morning, Green Woodpecker.
11/01/2021 - A Nuthatch In Earlham Cemetery This Morning.
04/01/2021 - I Encountered Three Of The Local Reeves' Muntjac This Morning. However, Only One Was Kind Enough To Pause And Be Photographed.