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- A tale of two males of different species today. The first the long staying Ist Winter ♂︎ Eastern Black Redstart at Sheringham. The Second and you did say it was tiny. SO tiny... A male Snow Flea that jumped across the leaf litter at Felbrigg, by the seat at the top of the V. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Horsey - The only spot in Norfolk for Cladonia rangiferina. A northern reindeer moss usually found in montane heaths, moorland, dunes & woodlands in the north North & West. And something as yet unidentified. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Seals basking in the sunshine at Horsey. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
- Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan
- Spectacular Snow Buntings at Winterton. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Snowdrop wonderment at Church farm - West Beckham Galanthus - Angelus Early, Byfield Special, Dionysius, Franz Joseph. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- One or two more fungal beauties. Winter Polypore (Polyporus brumalis), Crimped Gill (Plicatura crispa) and something toothed that turned out to be (again thanks to our resupinate whisperer) not the usual Steccherinum ochraceum but the unusual Steccherinum bourdotii @norfolknats.bsky.social
- The very beautiful structure (meruloid) of this resupinate found on a Pine log on Cawston Heath. Brilliantly determined by our resident resupinate whisperer. Glaeoporus taxicola. This being the fifth record on the Norfolk Mycota @norfolknats.bsky.social
- A stunning Eastern Black Redstart at Sheringham (Phoenicurus ochruros) today. Form murimus/phoenicuroides/rufiventris. A paradoxus type Ist winter ♂︎. 10-12% of them have bright male plumage. 90% look like females. Birding Frontiers 2011 Thanks to the finder. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
- After a career as an environment writer, here’s what I have learned
- The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
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- How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/23/g...
- Still very dry at Felbrigg for Fungi. Nonetheless - Death Cap (Amanita phalloides), Burgundy Drop Bonnet (Mycena haematopa), Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) and a fine slender Parasol (Macrolepiota procera) @NorfolkNats
- Very taken with this Lacewing Larva found on an Oak Leaf yesterday. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- One or two lichens from Blakeney Point- Cladonia arbuscula?, Cladonia foliacea, Cetrarea aculeata & a crustose lichen sp on soil on the dunes? @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Blakeney Point in yesterday's sunshine. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Blakeney Point. Sea Rocket in full bloom in the sunshine, starfish zigurats of Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides), end of the season's flowers on the twiggy, matted stems of Matted Sea Lavender (Limonium bellidifolium) and Shrubby Sea-blite plus rust. (Sueda vera) @norfolknats.bsky.social
- A bittern's (Botaurus stellaris) eye view in amongst the Sea Club Rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus) at Salthouse and Summer Snow (Cladonia foliacea) on the Little Eye. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- A hedge at the southern gate of Felbrigg Park only partly blossoming as yet. Hornet (Vespa crabro), Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae) & Tachina fera? @norfolknats.bsky.social
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- A quartet from a Fig tree In Norwich. A parasatised Aphid, Leafhopper nymph, which may be Ficocyba ficaria, Picture Wing Fly (Palloptera muliebris) & the Mediterranean Fig Psyllid (Homotoma ficus) found by JE earlier this year. @norfolknats.bsky.social
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- On the Tamarisk (Tamarix tetrandra) bordering Cliff Drive & North Lodge Park - Cromer. A delightful green leafhopper popping about this afternoon. Tamarisk Leafhopper (Opsius stactogalus) with some Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree (Lycium barbarum) flowering in a nearby hedgerow. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- One plant still in a fiery condition - Red-tipped Cudweed (Filago lutescens) , in the Brecks @norfolknats.bsky.social @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social
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- A quartet from Surlingham Marsh - Greater Burdock (Arctium lappa) {Leaf stalk solid rather than hollow)}, Late instar Parent Bugs (Elasmucha grisea), Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis) & the scaley patterns of Pseudocersospora depazeoisea on Elder (Sambucus nigra) @norfolknats.bsky.social
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- One or two nice moments for yesterday's high tide at Snettisham. @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Aphids on Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae) in the middle of Wheatfen Broad, Norfolk. Frogbit isn't recorded as a host on the InfluentialPoints website. Does anyone recognise the species? @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Yellow Loosestrife Bees (Macropis europea) foraging on their favourite flowers - Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife) on Beeston Common, Norfolk @norfolknats.bsky.social
- One or two other nice things from the Brecks. Basil Thyme (Clinopodium acinos), Smooth Rupturewort (Herniara glabra), One of two treehoppers found in the UK, particularly on Broom. (Gargara genistae) & Small Blue (Cipodo minimus) @norfolknats.bsky.social
- Three Bees & a wasp from the Brecks Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtirpes), Small Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena marginata), Spined Mason Bee (Osmia spinilosa), Large Shield Wasp (Crabro cribrarius) @norfolknats.bsky.social
- A rather nice fly that has arrived in Norfolk in recent years, living up to its english name - Twist-winged Parasite Fly (Ectophasia crassipennis) @norfolknats.bsky.social
