Catfield Fen



Hairy Dragonfly (Brachytron pratense)
Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isosceles)
White Water Lilly (Nyphaea alba)







Bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
Sparham Pools
















Cat's Ear MIning Bee (Andrea humilis)

Tipula vernalis

Common Blue Damselfly (Enellagma cyathigerurm)

Flag Iris (Iris pseudocorus)
Greater Celandine (Chelidoium majus)

Spindle (Euonymus europaeus)
Cley

Adult male Reed Bunting (Embiriza schoeniclus)

Shoveller (Spatula clypeata) at take off & landing.



Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta) really don't take kindly to intruders, including this Redshank. (Triga totanus)
A moment of hovering above the female before mating. (Redshank (Tringa totanus)
Mating Avocets
A moment together afterwards.

Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)








Spoonbill gathering nesting material. (Platalea leucorodia)
Alderfen Broad



Greater Tussock-sedge (Carex paniculata) 
Cranefly Sp? Tipula vernalis?
Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella)
Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella)


Hairy Dragonfly (Brachytron pratense)
Anasimyia lineata


Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nyphula)
Moss Sp

Moss Sp



Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis) unfolding



Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)
Water Violet (Hottunia palustris)
Cley


Common Lizard 






Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)


Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Bar Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Common Sandpiper, 3 Wood Sandpiper, Temminck's Stint
Bawburgh Mill


Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)










Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)
Frost's Common












Greater Tussock-sedge (Carex paniculata)

Water Violet (Hottonia palustris)
These are the capsules of Silesian Feather Moss (Herzogiella seligeri)
Not the best of pictures so a return visit is on the cards.
The actual moss was well hidden under a carpet of Kindbergia
Rustwort (Nowellia curvifolia)
Lyell's Bristle-moss (Pulvigera lyellii)
Floating Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans)
Ulota Sp


Marsh Yellow Cress (Rorippa palustris)
Celery-leaved Buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus)
Cley




Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)

Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) about to bloom.

Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)



Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)





Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
Gramborough Hill










They didn't quite connect today while we were watching them.
But later is was clear she was sitting on eggs.




As usual Avocets are extraordinary protective of their space. The Turnstones and a Pied Wagtail had a hard time from them

Absolute emotion in action. - Get out of here!

Let's run down a Turnstone.
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)




The most beautiful leveret - Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)








Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
The same group that have been here all week feeding up for onward migration.



Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)


Ring Ouzel (Turnus torquatus)
Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Whimbrel, Bar Tailed Godwit, Yellow Wagtails & Swallows moving.




















