Gramborough Hill
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
Gramborough Hill
Sea Aster Mining Bees (Colletes halophilus)
Spotted Satellite Fly (Miltogramma punctata)
Epeolus crucifer also present.
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Annual Sea-blite (Sueda maritima)
Gramborough Hill
Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)
Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
Cley
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
House Martin (Delichon urba)
Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)
Hirundines skimming the water.
Yellow Wagtail (Moticilla flava)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Cley
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)
Snipe (Galinago gallinago)
Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Swallow (Hirundo rusticata)
Salthouse
Red Banded Sand Wasp (Ammophila sabulosa)
Sea Aster Mining Bee (Colletes halophilus)
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) stripping a reed stem for the nest below.
Salthouse
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
Acrid Lettuce (Lactuca virosa)?
Sea Club Rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus)
Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Gall on Creeping Thistle of the Thistle Gall Fly (Urophora cardui)
Nature Spot on Thistle Gall Fly
Sea Aster Mining Bee (Colletes nesting aggregation on the Little Eye
Cromer
Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus micahelis)
Cley
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus)
Two of the thirteen that flew in this morning.
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
A family party of four were present. Two adults, two juveniles.
Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana)
Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)
Snettisham
Linnet (Carduelis cannabina)- Blazzing in the morning sunshine
Knot (Calidris canutus)
Dunlin (Calidris Alpina) & Knot (Calidris canutus)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Teasle (Dipsacus fullonum)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina) & Knot 9Calidris canutus)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
A little bit of scum flowing past.
Curlew (Numenius arquata) & Bar Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Curlew (Numenius arquata)
Bar tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum)
Leucsistic Oystercatcher
Sanderling (Calidris alba) & Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Cley
A very impressive new sculpture at Cley NWT
Alexander seed heads (Smyrnium olosatrum)
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
A juvenile. The buff tips on the coverts & tertials give this away.
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
One adult, two juveniles
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
Sea Club Rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ocheropus)
Spoonbill (Platalia leucorodia)
Two youngster with the adult. Screaming for food! This all occurred within about three minutes.
The adult flew off closely followed by the youngsters.
Young Little Egerts (Egreta garzetta)
A Snipe flew in (Gallinago gallinago)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Natural Surroundings - Bayfield
Lassioglossum Sp (Probably L calceatum) on the Succisa plant in the poly tunnel
The whole corner was full of bees. At least one Blood bee & an interesting wasp
Pelargonium lawrenceanum
Lassioglossum Sp?
Definitely a different sp Much browner and hairier.
Blue-winged Tachinid (Phasia hemiptera)
The ones with the red on the abdomen are males.
Common Furrow Bee (Lassioglossum calceatum)
Ornamental Origano
Wool Carder Bee (Anthidium manicatum)
Yellow Loosestrife Bee (Macropis europea)
One seen but the photo is from elsewhere.
There were also some small Lassioglossums - probably L minutissimum
Grafham Water - Huntingdonshire
Cape Gull (Larus dominicanus vetula)
Great Black Backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Yellow-legged Gull ( Larus michahelis) & Cape Gull (Larus dominicanes vetula)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahelis)
Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla lava)
Weybourne
Common Furrow Bee (Lassioglossum calceatum)
Wild Lettuce seed head (Lactuca Sp)
White Bryony (Bryonia dioica)
Eumerus Sp Hoverfly sp
Probably Eumerus funeralis.
You can just about make out the shiny black pare patch on the hind femora.
Beeston Common
Old Grey-banded Mining Bee ? (Andrena denticulata)
Short-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsata)
Beewolf (Philanthus triangulus)
Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)
Late instar nymph
Eupeodes luniger
Leafcutter Sp (Megachile Sp)
Thorpe Marshes
Golden Bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Agapanthis villosoviridescens)
Possibly Mournful Wasp (Pemphredron lugubris)
The wings have a brownish tinge.
This will go on irecord.
Phantom Cranefly (Ptychoptera contaminata)
Flag Waving Fly Sp (Herina Sp)?
Mint Moth (Pyrausta aurata)
Mirid Bug (Liocoris tripustulatus)
British Bugs
Mirid Bug (Lygus pratensis)?
British Bugs
Batman Hoverfly (Myothropa florea)
Red Bartsia Bee (Melitta tricincta)
Sand Tailed Digger Wasp (Cerceris arenaria)
Norwich
Vapourer Moth Caterpillar (origia antiqua)
Just stunning.
Locust Blowfly (Stomorhina lunata)
Lesser Snapdragon or Weasel's Snout (Misopates orontium)
Greater Burdock (Arctium lappa)
Dicranopalpus ramous
Opilio canestrinii
Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger)
Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
Shaggy Bracket (Inonotus hispidus)
Sweet Briar Marsh
Bee Sp?
Eristalis arbustorum
Sphaerophoria Sp
Wasp Plumehorn (Volucella inanis)
Ichneumon Sp
Plume Moth Sp?
Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtirpes)
Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea)
Blood Bee Sp (Sphecodes Sp)?
Within seconds it had been caught by a spider. Sp?