The only bird ringers I know do so on the North Norfolk coast. I'll have to ask if they've seen any over winter.
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The only bird ringers I know do so on the North Norfolk coast. I'll have to ask if they've seen any over winter.
Just heard my first Chiffchaff of the year in the garden. Spring has sprung! (the mist made it look more like November/early February yesterday)
I think I need to take more notice of where I see them now!
Natural England confirms tighter restrictions on gamebird releases on/near to Special Protection Areas in England.
This includes no gamebird releases in the 'heartland' of the Breckland SPA in Norfolk/Suffolk.
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After a series of dog incidents we’ve temporarily closed Hayley Wood (Cambs).
Despite clear signs, dogs off leads have disturbed birds, damaged rare wildflower habitat, staff were verbally abused when asking for leads.
Read more: shorturl.at/RbGI0
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A brick red and black beetle, head down on a Reed stem.
Red-breasted Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracicum) seen yesterday in a fen. A beetle I see quite regularly though I've read that it's not common, I wonder if it is just under recorded.
#beetle
We've seen Brimstones, a Comma and a Peacock in our Breckland garden in the last week.
"Diversity within species contributes to ecosystem functioning and represents an often-overlooked layer of biodiversity."
#Biodiversity - we have so little understanding of what we are trashing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The Cordyceps spider”: Taczanowskia waska sp. nov. (Araneae: Araneidae), a new spider species and a novel case of mimicry of an araneopathogenic fungus (Cordycipitaceae: Gibellula)
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Otter print from today. Mud has some plus points!
Yesterday every sun warmed Bumblebee flew off too quickly to get photos of and we enjoyed just watching the Brimstones and 2 Peacocks instead of photographing them. So muddy footprints it is.
As well as seeing adult butterflies coming out of hibernation today (Peacock and Brimstone for me!), I also enjoyed finding several Marsh Fritillary larval webs, with larvae taking their first nibbles of Devil's-bit Scabious, & communally basking to raise their body temperature, which aids digestion
We used to spend hours fishing for Bullheads, Stone Loach, Brown Trout and crayfish in Adel Beck in the 1970s. Invertebrates were plentiful and there were sometimes Dippers. Last year we found nothing, and the beck reeked of sewage. Small sample size, but I doubt continual sewage dumping helps.
Lovely to see lots of activity on the Snowdrops for the first time this year. Honeybees and a handful of Eristalis tenax.
Not surprisingly given today's mild temperatures I saw a good number of Honeybees on the Snowdrops in my garden and elsewhere this Buff-tailed Bumblebee posed obligingly whilst warming up on the path. Photo K. Radley
#Bumbleebees
Oh dear, all the years I've driven through South Lopham and had never noticed what's on the village sign!
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Beautiful!
A 'mummified' Reed Dagger (Simyra albovenosa) larva, caused by parasitism by the braconid parasitoid Aleiodes rugulous."
#norfolkmoths #parasitiods
I couldn't watch this video (just too upsetting) but huge thanks to the people out there getting this evidence against these evil people who go out to enjoy causing other living creatures immense suffering. And breaking the law.
With regards to the zoo comment - this was about the increasing number of reintroductions, not just pelicans. It involves humans choosing a species, choosing the location, choosing mostly large, characterful species and using tourism to help justify it.
This made me smile but it's not a laughing matter. You've summed it up perfectly, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
But we need to have large habitats and a thriving ecosystem in the first place, which we don't in the UK, before any introductions should be considered, in my personal opinion.
It's a new month, so lets spin the wheel and find out what species a rewilding company wants to introduce next, as we play "Let's turn Norfolk into a big zoo". Ooh, it's...Dalmation Pelican! www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/why-rewild/r... and pressreleasehub.pa.media/article/inte...
If I may make one request this year please do NOT use iNaturalist for recording moths in Norfolk. Please record directly on the website norfolkmoths.co.uk Thank you! #norfolkmoths #teammoth
Cut blackthorn hedges less often = boost brown hairstreak butterflies. Really simple, cost-free (or even money-saving) measures can massively benefit wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Very, very sad for that Hare and all the hundreds of others that have suffered that fate.
Well done for sharing this!
Portrait of the two sexes of the very rare & elusive Giant or Tawny Earwig which once occurred regularly in the Bournemouth area until its coastal habitat was lost to development in the first half of the 20th C. From William Lucas, Monograph of the British Orthoptera, Ray Society, 1920.
I've noticed a huge decline in Common Earwig numbers in our 3 acre garden in Norfolk. We don't use any pesticides and have made no changes to the habitat ant yet numbers have plummeted in the last 4 or 5 years. We are surrounded by arable farmland though...
