It’s that time of year again! The first Bee Orchids appearing in our wild flower border surrounding our pond. Hopefully many more will appear over the next few weeks.
Travellers have brazenly started turning a protected 4-acre wildlife haven into a caravan site in Willows Green near Felsted, Essex,
an army of around 30 vehicles and diggers descended under cover of darkness on Friday night using floodlights and generators,
they ripped up vegetation, bulldozed protected habitats for great-crested newts, destroyed an ancient hedgerow and filled in a ditch with rubble to create a new access road,
all of this happened just hours after Uttlesford District Council closed its doors for the entire three-day Bank Holiday weekend,
locals woke up to the shocking devastation and say the council had been warned but took no pre-emptive action,
by the time offices reopen on Tuesday the field could already be a fully fledged caravan park,
residents are furious at the total failure to protect the pristine countryside and rare wildlife including albino fallow deer,
Ross’s Gull are globally very difficult to see. A high Arctic species that just occasionally visits our shores and this the first I’ve seen in Norfolk for 42 years. A lovely Ist winter bird at Thornham today
A dash this morning to Lowestoft for what would have been Britains first ever Pallas's Gull. Alas it wasn't one but nice to catch up with the overwintering Hume's Warbler.
Managed to catch up with this nice Red-flanked Bluetail that had been found only a few miles from home. Once an extremely rare vagrant to the UK but over the last few decades a more regular bird due to westward expansion of its breeding range. Still a crowd pleasing bird
After a 2 year absence it was nice to record this Little Owl in the garden staking out our feeders. Perched like this reminded me of another yellow eyed beauty in Shetland a few years back!!
@latterash@RupertLowe10@JulianFerrier I’m not surprised you feel like that Ashley. A man who has supported the business of dentistry so well for decades, helping many thousands of small dental businesses become more successful. Small businesses that are the linchpin of our economy-and this is how she thanks you!!
I’ve heard lots of complaints about the noisy images taken by the Canon R5ii but I certainly find it incredible in low light. This Firecrest at Titchwell is a perfectly usable image despite 51,200ISO
A rewarding visit to Holme where this Hume’s Warbler showed low enough in the brambles to enable me to capture the subtle plumage of yet another Asian vagrant from the east.
The north east Norfolk coast has attracted a few Pallid Swifts over the years and it was good to catch up with this superbly fresh individual with @Vaasetter