About 1970 John Gooders wrote that the 4 pits at Benacre were a place not to be missed in winter having divers, grebes, Goldeneye and Scoter. This is all that remains today - barely enough space for a pond skater!
There is a singing male Dartford Warbler in the first patch of gorse/bramble just south of Kessingland sluice
Just seen my first Brimstone of the year at Denes Oval Lowestoft
These fabulous Yellow Brain fungi were seen on Dunwich Heath today
Well that’s brightened up a dull morning! A Firecrest is in my garden picking over ivy heads right by the lounge window
It’s publication day! 📖 🍾
Here is an intro to #NatureWithin…
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Nuthatch north end of Corton Wood
There’s still time to enter before I harvest the books from the giveaway tree 😉
There are now 63 Snow Buntings at the Pakefield/Kessingland shore pools! Quite a sight!
Several window corners in the coastguard’s cafe at Dunwich have aggregations of hibernating ladybirds. The Temminck’s Stint and Water Pipit are still on the scrape at Minsmere and I saw a very late Common Darter
3 Cattle Egrets on Peto’s Marsh Carlton at start of bund eastern end by digger. No cows in sight!
A Little Auk flew north along the tide line at Gunton Beach and there are 2 Firecrests in Corton Wood
3 Shorelarks Kessingland shore pools eastern edge plus Rock Pipit and Purple Sandpiper at sluice
A flock of 9 Crossbills in Waveney Forest
The juvenile Red-footed Falcon is giving a good display at Bure Park at the moment
A flock of 40-50 Crossbills has just flown over Covehithe heading south.
Why do “people “ do this?
Carlton this morning
The Glossy Ibis is still at Carlton. It’s on the northern scrape of Share Marsh viewable from the river bank
Wow! An Osprey has just flown over my garden in St Olaves and is heading towards Breydon
Black Redstart singing and flycatching by Gulliver’s yard at Ness Point
It took quite a while to disentangle the bill and wing of this juvenile Gannet from a discarded fishing net on Dunwich Beach this afternoon.
The last 2 dragonfly surveys of Carlton Marshes have produced only the same 7 species. Diversity dropping and numbers too as autumn approaches
Love this sketch as it certainly sums up my experience of the bird and plenty of other birders too!
2 Clouded Yellows in Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe
Juv Cuckoo, Hobby and Sparrow Hawk- Herringfleet Marshes
Beccles Marsh Trail- a pair of Spotted Flycatchers with 2 juveniles. Thought I wasn’t going to see any this year!
Two pairs of Lesser Emperors ovipositing at Carlton Marshes today and Wasp Spiders are on show by car park and pedestrian track by railway line
Dragonfly survey at Carlton today-17 species incl. Lesser Emperor and Small Red-eyed Damselfly. Also Grass snake swimming across Round Pond and Bittern on Share Marsh
There is a Bee eater currently flying around over Carlton visitor centre!
Dragonfly survey at Carlton Marshes today produced 18 species! Willow Emerald , Small Red-eyed Damselfly and 2 Lesser Emperors. No sign of any Vagrant Emperors. Also Fen Raft Spider on pool at start of the bund- well north of usual dykes
