Cley

























Garganey (Anas querquadula)
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)

Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)
Kelling Heath

Blood Bee Sp (Sphecodes Sp)


Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)

Spider Hunting Wasp (Anophilus viaticus)
Strumpshaw Fen







Clarke's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella)







Early Nomad Bee (Nomada leucopthalma)
Dersingham Fen




Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale)

Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata)
Dry above
Moist below

Lustrous Bog-moss (Sphagnum subnitens)

Mueller's Pouchwort (Calypogeia muelleriana)
Shows entire leaves and the shallow notch of the underleaf.
Forcipated Pincerwort (Cephalozia connivens)
Likely to be a Cepheloziella Sp. Very deeply notched leaves but there are no spines present on this piece.
Possibly Cephaloziella elasticha 

Common Threadwort (Cepheloziella divarica)
Common Pouchwort (Calypogeia fissa)
Cley









Garganey (Spatula querquedula)






Little Egret ( Egret garzetta)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Holkham Dunes


Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Peacock (Aglais io)
Towards Barnham Overy
Out on the shore













I need a bit of a scratch
On my back
Between the eyes



























Early Colletes (Colletes cunicularius)
Kelling Heath

Lichen Sp
Lichen Sp
Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Lichen Sp
Lichen Sp
?




Some rather wonderful Oak Woodland on the the east slope of Kelling Heath
In the stubble 








Little Bunting (Embiriza pusilla)
Barnham Broom Fen
Something from Hoveton to wet everyone's appetite


Sultanas on a stick?
Pine Jelly (Exidia saccharina)
Barnham Broom Fen

Fresh Reed Cutting

New ponds


Alder (Alnus glutinosa) woodland. - About 40 years old.


Older Alder 
Galerina Sp with Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum) in the background.
Mycelium pattern of Dewdrop Bonnet (Hemimycena tortuosa)

Dewdrop Bonnet
Mark the top one was taken with the 1.6 filter.
The bottom one was taken with the 1.6 Filter plus the Raynox 250 filter - giving 3.6 magnification.
Fungus growing on a Woodwart Sp
To be identified
Mark - This one taken with the combined 1.6 & 2.5
For comparison a Ruby Red microfungi also growing on a Woodwart Sp found at Upgate Common.
This one likely to be dialonectria epispheria

Lichen Sp growing on Oak.
Phlictis argenea
from the
British Lichen Society
On the Hawthorn Berry
Haw Goblet (Monilinia johnsonii)
from
UK Fungi
Dog's Mercury ( Mercurialis perennis)
Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)
Pinkgill Sp Entoloma Sp
This one confused everyone.
To be determined.
Elfcup Sp
from
Mark Jpy
Sarcoscypha austriaca, Scarlet Elfcup I found these on rotting fallen logs & thick branches (of Willow sp. I think) in moss.
Under the microscope the cup surface hairs were very colied (ruling out Ruby Elfcup, Sarcoscypha coccinea) & also the spores were too wide for Ruby Elf Cup).

Fungus ona Lichen
Both to be determined.
Mark again the top one taken with the 1.6 and the lower one with the combined 1.6 & 2.5
Wheatfen








Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)






Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Bonfire Moss (Funaria hygrometrica)







Indian Feather-moss (Timmia megapolitana)
First found by Bob Ellis in 2000 and Wheatfen is still the only British Site for this moss.
from the
Red Data Book
Wheatfen Broad, part of the Ted Ellis Nature Reserve within the Yare Broads and Marshes SSSI, where Bob Ellis first found it in 2000 is still the only British site for this moss. It occurs on willow branches lying on bare mud in carr woodland where tidal flows mean that it can be under water for a number of days. The nearest population to that at Wheatfen, is in the Netherlands where it grows in similar conditions. Although found, so far, in only two adjacent 2 km grid squares, the Norfolk population is estimated at well over two million individual plants. Given concerns about Timmia megapolitana elsewhere in Europe, the population here appears to be of high conservation importance. by Mary Ghullam




Freshwater tidal Sallix Carr.
Rockland Broad

Willow Sp
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Upgate Common



Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)
Slender Mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium myosoroides)

Common Pouchwort (Calypogeia fissa)
Micro fungus growing on a Woodwart Sp likely to be dialonectria epispheria
Kelling Heath

Buzzard (Buteo buteo)

Chiffchaff (Phyloscopus collybita)

Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata)
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Adder (Viperus berus)
Cley


Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

Brent (Branta bernicla)







Pale-bellied Brent (Branta bernicla hrota)


























Red Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)
Wheatfen

Still enough for good reflections.
Reedmace (typha latifolia) reflection
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) singing in the early morning light.


An adult male Siskin (Carduelis spinus) high up in the Poplar nibbling on the catkins.

Greater Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta)
Long Tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) gathering nest material. 
A pair of Teal (Anas crecca) flushed by a Marsh Harrier
Netted Crust (Byssomerulius coreum)
A dark furry looking fungus that doesn't really come across in this photograph.
Chaetosphaerella phaestroma
Unknown?
Scarlet Elf Cup Sp
Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
Hypoxylon Sp?



Lichen Sp
Something of an unknown.?
?

Peniophora Sp?


Deep Water
Wheatfen






The Gall of the Yellow flat-footed Fly (Agathomyia wankowiczii) on Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma aplanata)
The little fly is actually a wonderful bright orange with red eyes but very rarely seen.
First UK find was in Kent in 1990.
?
Alder Goblet Cup Fungus (Ciboria caucus)

Alder(Alnus glutinosa) in the evening light
A brief glimpse of a Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) over the tree tops.
Houghen Plantation


Pond Clump (!3)

Valley FenMire & Wet Heath
Boundary ditch between Poplar Plantation & Secondary Woodland & the Scrub/Bracken & Rough Grass
Crisped/Bruch's Pincushion (Ulotta crispa/bruchii)
Dilated Scalewort (Frullen dilatata) and Cypress-leaved Plait Moss (Hypnum cupressiforme)

Scrub, Bracken, Rough grass (Formerly part of the Pine Plantation)

Scot's Pine Plantation (Pinus sylvestris)
Chestnut (Castanea sativa) Coppice & Silver Birch (Betula Sp) - Whinny Hills
East Wretham




Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Oak (Quercus robur) & Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Crisped /Bruch's Pincushion (Ulotta Sp)
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata)

Red Beard-moss (Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum)
Cley



Brent (Branta bernicla)


Black tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Curlew (Numenius arquata)


Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)


The beginnings of the Spring display.


Lapwing ready for Spring. (Vanellus vanellus)



Lapwing, BlackTailed Godwit, Ruff, Starling
Red Kite (Milvus milvus)


Wigeon (Anas penelope)





















































