Older 2023
21/12/2023 - Yes, Even More Waxwings! And A Reeve's Muntjac. But Not Together.
17/12/2023 - Even More Waxwings! My Fourth Encounter In The Last 12 Days.
13/12/2023 - More Waxwings!
09/12/2023 - A Catch Up With The Week, Which Included A Couple Of Cracking Winter Species; Very Locally, Waxwings And At NWT Thorpe Marshes, A Lone Male Goldeneye. Elsewhere, Ring-Necked Parakeet On Marston Marshes, Great White Egret And Tufted Ducks At Whitlingham, A Peregrine At Norwich Cathedral And An Unusual Magpie In The Garden.
04/12/2023 - Dismal Weather Over The Last Two Days. A Distant Wet Rabbit At SWT Lound Lakes. Hungry Egyptian Geese In Wensum Park. Common Gull In Catton Park.
01/12/2023 - A Fantastic Tour Of The New Sweet Briar Reserve With Warden Matt Wickens. One Of The Highlights, A Roosting Tawny Owl.
25/11/2023 - A Female Ichneumon At The Allotment. Cormorant And Canada Geese In The Yare Valley.
18/11/2023 - A New Picture In The Occasional Series Of Egyptian Geese Standing On Things.
12/11/2023 - Pictures Form This Last Week. A Ring-Necked Parakeet At Hellesdon Meadows.
At Holkham Today: Wigeon, Grey Heron, Distant Red-Breasted Merganser, Brent Geese, Turnstone And Grey Partridge.
07/11/2023 - A Damp November Woodpigeon In The Garden And A Kestrel At The Allotment.
29/10/2023 - A Female Bearded Tit At Thornham.
26/10/2023 I've Been Busy In Recent Weeks And Then I Had Trouble Getting Onto The Website Editor. Anyway, I'm Back! Pictures From North Norfolk Earlier This Month: Curlew, Greenshank, Grey Plover, Kestrel And Pink-Footed Geese.
01/10/2023 - A Visit To Suffolk Wildlife Trust's Lackford Lakes Reserve. Willow Emerald Damselfly In Silhouette, An Unusually Marked Egyptian Goose And A Pair Of Very Relaxed Little Grebes.
On The Car Window At Cavenham Heath, A Leafhopper.
27/09/2023 - Bowthorpe Southern Park This Morning, A Hastily Snatched Photograph Of A Grass Snake And A Little Egret.
19/09/2023 - Ruff And Black-Tailed Godwit At Cley Marshes On Sunday.
15/09/2023 - A Beautiful September Morning In Bowthorpe Sothern Park. New Pictures Of Little Egret, Comma, Snout, Willow Emerald Damselfly, A Pair Of Mating Migrant Hawkers, Common Darter And, New To The Site, A Bankside Orbweaver.
04/09/2023 - A Trip To RSPB Snettisham Yesterday. New Pictures Of Turtle Dove, Small Heath And Dock Bug. New To The Site: Little Stint And Straw-Barred Pearl.
And Yes, We Did See Rather A Lot Of Waders. I've Put Two Images From The Day At The Foot Of This Page, As They're Unclassifiable By Species. Swirling Clouds Of Knot, Dunlin, Godwits, Oystercatchers, Curlew Sandpiper And Who Knows What Else. Scroll Down To View. ⏬
13/09/2023 - A Nice Mixture On The Marriott's Way And The Back Lanes Of Costessey This Morning. Green-Veined White, Comma, Ivy Bee, Bloody-Nosed Beetle And A Toadlet.
07/09/2023 - A Hot, Humid Morning In Earlham Cemetery. New Pictures Of Small Copper, A Reeves' Muntjac Eating Blackberries And, New To The Site, A Double-Striped Tabby.
05/09/2023 - A Migrant Hawker At Earlham Millennium Green And A Buzzard Family In Bowthorpe.
In The Back Garden, A Small Dusty Wave.
30/08/2023 - Two Species Of Moth New To Me In Bowthorpe Southern Park Yesterday, The Marvellously Named Snout And The Common Marble.
On Marston Marsh Today; Speckled Wood, Red Admiral And Comma. Later, Encounters With Two Grey Herons. A Juvenile On The Yare And An Adult In Eaton Park.
28/08/2023 - I've Been Having A Busy Time With The House, So No Getting Out And About Recently. However, Things Do Still Come To Me. A Beautifully Marked Double-Striped Pug In The Bathroom And A Batman Hoverfly, Myathripa Florea That Had To Be Rescued From The Kitchen.
16/08/2023 - A Small Dusty Wave On The Window This Morning.
A Walk Along The Yare Through Bowthorpe Marsh And Bowthorpe Southern Park: A Mirid Bug Oncotylus Viridiflavus, A Pair Of Mating Common Darters, Grey Heron, Possible Hybrid Carrion Crow And A Ferocious Looking Female Sparrowhawk.
Yesterday At Marston Marsh: Common Blue And Ruddy Darter.
13/08/2023 - Back Ga Action This Afternoon. A German Wasp, Vespula Germanica Raiding A Spider's Larder; Myathropa Florea, The Colloquially Named Batman Hoverfly And A Common Darter.
10/08/2023 - A Relatively Quiet Last Seven Days, No Doubt Due To The Abysmal Weather, Which Finally Seems To Be On The Turn. Sand Martins At Happisburgh. Red-Tailed Bumblebee And Hornet Mimic Hoverfly V Zonaria At Bowthorpe Marsh And A Holly Blue In The Bathroom.
03/08/2023 - Pictures From The Allotment, The Exquisitely Marked Cloaked Minor And Beewolf.
At Home A Hornet Mimic Hoverfly, V. Zonaria.
Bowthorpe Marsh: Brown Argus, Common Blue, Essex Skipper, Peacock, Common Darter, Hornet Mimic Hoverfly V. Zonaria And Linnet.
01/08/2027 - A Least Carpet At Home.
I Noticed That I Hadn't Changed The Link At The Bottom Of This Page To Older Entries For Three Years! That's Now Fixed.
27/07/2023 - Pictures From Yesterday: Ruddy Darter And Common Darter, Emperor Dragonfly, Migrant Hawker And Peacock Butterfly
22/07/2023 - Time To Catch Up On The Week. At Marston Marsh: Large Skipper, Marmalade Fly, Small Copper, Common Red Soldier Beetle, New To Me, The Emperor Dragonfly; Ruddy Darter And Comma. A Mother Of Pearl Moth Further Upriver On The Yare.
A Goldfinch In The Garden.
In Earlham Cemetery: A Southern Hawker And Green Woodpecker. A Singing Chiffchaff At Dolphin Bridge.
At Bowthorpe Marsh: Gatekeeper, Whitethroat, Essex Skipper, My First Common Blue And Brown Argus Of The Summer.
15/07/2023 - The Tiny, Brightly Coloured Nymphs Of The True Bug Species Raglius Alboacuminatus, Accompanied By An Ant Damsel Bug.
14/07/2023 - Two New Micro Moths For The Site. London Dowd And Indian Meal Moth.
I Have Now Put The Picture Of The Swollen-Thighed Beetle From Yesterday On The Site!
13/07/2023 - I'm Seeing A Profusion Of Skippers Every Time I Go Out. Although Not Always Easy To Photograph Bowthorpe And Mile Cross Marshes Both Came Up With The Goods In The Last Two Days. New Pictures Of Large Skipper, Small Skipper And Essex Skipper.
Other Pictures From Bowthope Marsh; Moorhen And Chick, Linnet, Gatekeeper, Banded Demoiselle, Silver Y And Black-Tailed Skimmer.
A Beautiful Meadow Brown And A Female Swollen-Thighed Beetle Both On Mile Cross Marsh.
10/07/2023 - Lovely Things On Marston Marsh This Morning; Banded Demoiselle, Broad-Bodied Chaser, Essex Skipper And Comma.
08/07/2023 - A Speckled Bush-Cricket In The Living Room.
06/07/2023 - Two Observations From The End Of Last Month. The Splendidly Named Toadflax Brocade And A Species Of Mirid Bug In The Genus Lygus.
A Grey Wagtail In Norwich This Morning And Meal Moth In The Living Room.
05/07/2023 - Some Observations From The Allotment; Beewolf, Spotted Crane Fly And New To The Site Brassica Shieldbug Or Cabbage Bug.
04/07/2023 - Final Batch Of Tiree Pictures. Additional Pictures For The Meadow Pipit, Rock Pipit And Common Sandpiper. Magpie Moth, Garden Grass Veneer And Silver Y. Red Velvet Mite. Fulmar, Ringed Plover, Eider, House Sparrow, Redshank, Rock Dove, Greater Black-Backed Gull. Red Admiral, Common Blue Damselfly, Six-Spot Burnet Moth And The Hoverfly Rhingia Campestris.
Next Time, Local Sightings Since Returning.
03/07/2023 - Second Batch Of This Year's Tiree Pictures. New Pictures Of Linnet, Song Thrush, Meadow Pipit, Wren, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Reed Bunting, Stonechat And Wheatear. Making Its Debut On The Site, Arctic Tern. I Was Amazed By This Until I Realised That We Usually Visit The Islands Around Scotland In August When The Adults And Their Young Have Gone Out To Sea. This Year, They Were Still In Full Breeding Mode, Allowing For Much Closer View.
01/07/2023 - The First Tranche Of Photos From Our Visit To Tiree, 2 Months Earlier Than In The Past, Which Has Led To A New Experience Of The Island. Starting With Black Guillemot Nesting In Oban Harbour. New Pictures Of Hooded Crow, Raven, Summer Plumage Sanderling, Rock Pipit, Whimbrel, Starling, Shelduck And Brown Hare.
28/06/2023 - I'm Back, After 5 Weeks Away! I'll Begin Slowly With Some Sightings From Cumbria. A Newly Fledged Juvenile Long-Tailed Tit. The Rather Marvellously Named Downlooker Snipe-Fly. Two Butterflies I Don't Usually See Enough Of, Small Heath And Wall Brown. And My Second Picture Of The Common Marbled Carpet, A Moth Which Is Incredibly Varied In Its Appearance.
22/05/2023 - The Rash Of Species New To The Site Continues With Three In The Allotment Wheelbarrow At The Same Time. A Species Of Elateridae Click Beetle, A Jet Black Spider, Zelotes Lareillei And A Planthopper, Asiraca Clavicornis.
16/05/2023 - Another Species New To The Site, The Cranefly Tipula Vernalis. New Pictures Of Red-Headed Cardinal Beetle, Myathropa Florea, The So-Called Batman Hoverfly And Variable Damselfly.
15/05/2023 - On A Day Of Mixed Weather, Starting With Cool Mist And Drizzle But Ending Up With Warm Sunshine, Three Species New To The Site; Turtle Dove (In The Murk), Wood Sandpiper And Latticed Heath. New Pictures Of Greylag Goose And Goslings And Lapwing With Chicks. A Pair Of Swallows.
12/05/2023 - In A Week In Which Opportunities Were Severely Curtailed By Heavy Rain, Some New Pictures Of A Rook, An Alder Fly Species And A Forget-Me-Not Shieldbug
08/05/2023 - New Pictures Of Orange-Tip, Dock Bug And Large Red Damselfly.
07/05/2023 - Two Visitors To The Garden Shed; Double-Striped Pug And The Hoverfly, Epistrophe Eligans
06/05/2023 - Some Pictures From This Week. My First Orange-Tip Of The Year; New Pictures Of Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat And Reed Bunting.
30/04/2023 - Time To Catch Up With The Week. A Very Conspicuous Blackbird In The Garden. Distant Common Terns At UEA. And On The Very Unpromising Day That Was Friday, Whitethroat, Blackcap And Song Thrush.
23/04/2023 - Introducing A Bird I Never Expected To Be Able To Photograph, The Nightingale. First New Pictures Of Stone Curlew For 6 Years. Still Not Brilliant Pictures But An Improvement On The Existing Ones.
22/04/2023 - Despite The Indifferent Weather, Holly Blues Are Back In The Garden.
16/04/2023 - A Terrific Morning On The Broads East Of Norwich Capped Off With A View Of The Osprey At Ranworth Broad.
14/04/2023 - A Tawny Mining Bee In The Cemetery.
11/04/2023 - A Kestrel Successfully Hunting At The Allotments.
09/04/2023 - Back In January I Said There'd Be No Visit To Wells This Easter. Slight Change Of Plan, We Were There For A Few Days Last Week! New Pictures Of Small Tortoiseshell, Yellow Dung Fly, Brimstone, Comma, Linnet, Chiffchaff, Avocet, Oystercatcher, Curlew, House Sparrow, Red Kite, Barnacle Goose, Brent Goose And, New To The Site, Buffish Mining Bee.
Back At Home, A Dark-Edged Bee Fly.
From Last Sunday, A Pied Wagtail.
29/03/2023 - A Carrion Crow At Whitlingham. At Home, The Beautiful But Unfortunately Named Spitting Spider; In The Garden Jay And Stock Dove.
23/03/2023 - An Excellent Morning At NWT Cley Marshes Last Sunday. New Pictures Of Snow Bunting, Spoonbill, Lapwing, Ruff, Snipe, Teal And Wigeon.
Back At Home, Hairy-Footed Flower Bees Are Out And About. A Female With Three Males For Company.
17/03/2023 - Pictures From A Fantastic Morning At UEA And Bowthorpe Marshes. New Pictures Of Siskin, Great-Crested Grebe, Reed Bunting, Stonechat, Linnet, Kestrel And Common Buzzard.
12/03/2023 - A Relatively Quiet Week With Some Very Inclement Weather. A Starling And Pied Wagtail In Great Yarmouth. One Of The Redwings From A Flock In Norwich.
04/03/2023 - A Drumming Greater-Spotted Woodpecker In Catton Park.
26/02/2023 - A Walk Home From Norwich Along The River On Friday Morning. New Pictures Of Peregrine, An Egyptian Goose Family, Grey Wagtail And Kingfisher.
There Is Now A Search Box On The Main Index Page.
20/02/2023 - An Excellent Morning At The Hawk And Owl Trust Sculthorpe Moor Reserve Yesterday. Pictures Of Great White Egret, Collared Dove, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Bullfinch And Making Its Debut On The Site As A Record Shot Only, Tawny Owl.
15/02/2023 - A Morning In Earlham Cemetery. New Pictures Of Reeves' Muntjac, Grey Squirrel, Blue Tit And Wren.
13/02/2023 - A Pair Of Red-Legged Partridges In The Rosary Cemetery.
11/02/2023 - Pictures From A Wander Around Costessey Back Lanes On Friday. New Pictures Of Greenfinch, Kestrel, Siskin And Redwing, Easily My Best Pictures Of The Latter Species.
09/02/2023 - On The Local Patch, Goldcrest And Robin. In The Garden, Blackcap And Blue Tit.
06/02/2023 - A Great Morning In And Around Bowthorpe Marshes. New Pictures Of Great White Egret, Teal, Song Thrush, Blue Tit, Greenfinch And Starling.
04/02/2023 - A Feral Pigeon Visits The Garden.
03/02/2023 - Pictures From The Local Patch Today; Redwing, Kestrel And Ring-Necked Parakeet.
01/02/2023 - A Couple Of Birds From This Week. The Male Blackcap Is Still Visiting The Garden And My Only Siskin So Far This Winter.
28/01/2023 - A Walk Out To Whitlingham, Distant Pochard And Close-Up Song Thrush.
23/01/2023 - The Blackcap Continues To Visit During The Adverse Weather.
21/01/2023 - A Catch Up With Week's Sightings. In The Garden, A Wood Mouse, Jay, Jackdaw, Blackcap And Greenfinch. Mistle Thrush In Eaton Park And Cormorants At UEA Broad.
14/01/2023 - A Change Of Plan This Year, No April Trip To Wells But A January One Instead. New Pictures Of Little Grebe, Little Egret, Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Black-Tailed Godwit, Lapwing, Red Kite, Stonechat, Curlew, Grey Plover, Greylag Goose, Shoveler, Redshank, Song Thrush, Robin, Tufted Duck, Reeves' Muntjac, Snow Bunting, Barn Owl; Huge Numbers Of Pink-Footed Goose And Lapwing. But The Undoubted Highlight Of This Trip Was My First Ever Sighting Of Shore Lark.
Having Returned Home, The First Thing I Saw Out Of The Kitchen Window Was A Male Blackcap!
Have Moved The Birch Catkin Bug To The Right Place On The Site.
05/01/2023 - A Pair Of Mistle Thrushes In Eaton Park.
02/01/2023 - First Pictures Of The New Year, Taken Yesterday: Reeves' Muntjac, Ring-Necked Parakeet And Great-Spotted Woodpecker.
Waders At RSPB Snettisham - September 3rd, 2023