Lower Wood, Ashwellthorpe



Lower Ashwelthorpe Wood is the Ramsoms capital of Norfolk.
Spectacular when the sun shone.




Superb old Oak - Quercus robur, at the entrance.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust - Lower Wood, Ashwellthorpe




Wood Spurge - Euphorbia amygdaloides

Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula



Wood Speedwell - Veronica montana

A very strange Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scriptum
New growth on a Bramble.




Ramsoms - allium ursinum up close.
Wood Sedge - Carex sylvatica

Lower Wood is an ancient woodland and has a high number of Hornbeam.
Hornbeam have these wonderful twig clusters on the trunk.
Salthouse Heath


Just on the edge of the heath is this glorious Oak - Quercus robur. Looking resplendent in it's spring green.
Hanworth

Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes
Singing gustily in the cold and wind of the morning.
Jackdaw - Corvus monedula
Field Woodrush - Luzula campestris


Bulbous Buttercup - Ranunculus bulbous




Common Cornsalad - Valerianella locusta



Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula
Sustead



Red Campion - Silene dioica

Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula


Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris


Prickly Sowthistle - Sonchus asper
Gresham



Crab Apple - Malus sylvestris




Ramsoms - allium ursine
Brown edges to the bracts


Scentless Mayweed - Tripleurospermum inodorum
This is one of Norfolk's roadside nature reserves on the road from Sustead to Gresham
Two Blackcaps singing at the their territories boundary. (Unfortunately not recorded) Blackbird, Chiffchaff, Wren, Blue Tit
and
this
Chaffinch
Kelling Heath


Silver Birch - Betula pendular

Juniper Hair Cap (Polytrichum juniperimum) Male plants
Puffball spp?
Willow Warbler singing this morning.
Short burst of Stonechat song flighting.
Metton






A roadside nature reserve near Metton
Meadow Saxifrage - Saxifraga granulata



Bulbous buttercup - Ranunculus bulbosus



Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys
Common Speedwell - Veronica officinalis
Salthouse



Linnet - Linnaria cannabina



Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta


Stonechat - Saxicola rubicola
Southrepps Common

The old and the new. Fresh reed growth back by the old.
Brooklime - Veronica beccabunga, plump and delicious awaiting blooms.


Alder - Alnus glutinosa


Cuckoo Flower - Cardamine pratensis


Fly?
Large Bitter Cress - Cardamine amara


Goat Willow - Salix caprea
Rush?


Marsh Valerian - Valeriana dioica
These are male plants with stamens and anthers
Marsh Valerian from WildFlowerFinder.org
Blickling Park

Carpet of Bluebells - Hyacinthoides non-scripta

The twists and turns of Sweet Chestnut trunks. - Castanea sativa


Oak - Quercus roubar
Common Lime - Tilia x europea
Wood Sorrell leaves in the grass - Oxalis acetosela
Sparham Pools




Oak - Quercus robur
Superb old Oaks on the edge of the main pools.
Speckled Wood - Pararge algeria



Herb Robert - Geranium robertianum


Broom - Cytisus scoparius
The curves in Broom are quite spectacular.
Hidden in the Broom bush a Long tailed Tit's nest covered in Lichen.
Dandelion - Taraxacum official
Cuckoo Flower - Cardamine pratensis
Orange Tip - Anthocaris cardamons
Marsham Heath





Yellow Archangel - Lamium galeobdolon



Herb Robert - Geranium robertanium
A white one.
Hanworth

Our Easter Bunny brought eggs and daffodils this morning. Caught on camera before disappearing for another year.




Jack-by-the-hedge - Allaria petiolata
Foxley Wood






Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Greater Stitchwort - Stellaria holostea
Large Bee-fly - Bombylius major


Common Dog Violet - Viola raviniana



Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula
and
the
little guys are a micro moth
The Marsh Marigold Moth - Micropterix calthella
What a perfect name. I thought I'd seen them somewhere before.
Thanks to Jim Wheeler of Norfolk Moths for the ID

Early Purple Orchid - Orchis macula













Herb Paris - Paris Quadrifolia
Although in the picture above Paris Pentifolia and there was Sexifolia on Twitter recently.
Nothing to do with Paris but the Latin par meaning pair and the symmetry of the pairs of leaves and flower parts.
Beeston Common








Cuckoo Flower - Cardamine pratensis
Large Bitter Cress - Cardamine amara
Crane Fly - Tipula oleracea






Marsh Marigold - Caltha palustris
Marsh Valerian - Valeriana dioica

Moss capsules ?
Rowan - Sorbus aucuparia

Black bog rush - Schoenus nigerians

Holly - Ilex aquifolium
New growth on the gorse.- Ulex europeus

Field Horsetail - Equisetum arvense



Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus


Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia
Common Butterwort - Pinguicula vulgaris
Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva
Delightful orange furred bee.
Hanworth

Blackbird - Turdus merula

Chaffinch - Fringilla coelebs

Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes
Cley






Beautiful Willow at the end of the village towards Gladford - Crack Willow - Salix fragilis
Hoverfly - Melangyna viridiceps
Alexanders - Smyrnium olusatrum



Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
Cromer





Sea Buckthorn- Hippophae rhamnoides, in flower on the clifftop.


Field Wood Rush - Luzula campestris, on the streets of Cromer
Holt Lowes





Round Leaved Sundew - Drosera rotundifolia
A small green spider ?



?
Wiveton Down

View to the South.




Climbing Corydalis - Ceratocapnos claviculata







Crab Apple - Malus sylvestris

Greater Chickweed - Stellaria neglecta

Chickweed - Stellaria media

Heath Bedstraw - Galium saxatile


And this rather splendid creature.
Bloody-nosed beetle - Timarcha tenebricosa
A non flying beetle
Chichaffs, Linnets, Blackcaps and a Willow Warbler singing.
Gramborough Hill

View from Gramborough Hill towards Cley. Viewed through about 650mm lens
Meadow Pipit - Anthus pratensis
Sand Martins back at their nesting site. About ten today.
Whimbrel flew over.
Missed the Great White Egret as it flew over.
Norfolk



An explosive burst of Blackcap, then Chiffchaff, followed by the Blackcap again. A bee floating around as well.
Another burst of Blackcap





Fresh young Oak - Quercus robur, leaves and flowers beginning to open. 
Older Oak - Quercus robur

Male and female Stonechat - Saxicola rubicola


Dartford Warbler - Sylvia undata
Felbrigg





Broad Buckler Fern - Dryopteris dilatata
Annual meadow grass - Poa annua





Wood Sorrell - Oxalis acetosella



Shepherd's Purse - Capsella bursa-pastoris


Common Field Speedwell - Veronica persicv



Cuckoo Flower - Cardemine pratensis
Tulip Tree - Liriodendron tulipifera

Greater Pond Sedge - Carex riparia


Chickweed - Stellaria media
and
Two
Swallows
Wayland Wood


Oaks just coming into leaf and flower
Hazel coppice stool




Bird Cherry - Prunus padus



Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non - scripta just beginning to unfurl.


The flowers are really flat and distinctly horizontal which caught my eye.
Lesser Celandine - Ficaria verna
?
?
?

Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus








Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula
A pink shade of Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa




Couldn't get over the long legs and how the fly can angle them to get at the different plants of the flower.
The angled knee in the lower picture is extraordinary, particularly with the laid back stretch as well..
Two above that show how high it can project itself. A bit like a cat stretching or an old citroen safari with the air suspension.
Just managed a picture of the back legs extended. They are very quick to tuck them in when they land on something.
Large Bee-fly - Bombylius major supping on the Celandines.
Bee-fly life cycle form the Dipterists forum
Most amazing the way the females load the eggs with dirt to camouflage the eggs and make them heavier.
This allows the female to flick them into the burrows of Solitary Mining bees.
The hatched Bee-fly larva then eat the larva of the Mining bees


Water Avens - Geum rivale
Nodding avens, cure all, drooping avens, water flower, indian chocolate

Orange Ladybird - Halyzia sedecimguttata
Apparently closely associated with Ancient Woodland in the past. Likes to feed on the mildew associated with Sycamores. But it's range is increasing as it has adapted to feed on Ash.
Orange Tip
Brimstone
Comma
Holly Blue
Alderford

On the roadside at the edge of this field Cow Parsley is beginning to flower.




Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris


Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
East Wretham Heath

In Memory of
SYDNEY HERBERT LONG
of Norwich
Bord 1870 - Died 1939
Founder of
THE NORFOLK NATURALIST TRUST
1926




Superb stand of Scots Pine - Pinus sylvestris

Rook - Corvus frugilegus
Strumpshaw Fen



Wren singing down by the riverside.


Guelder Rose - Viburnum oculus

Mating weevils spp?

Willow 


Blackird - Turdus merula collecting food. 

Carrion Beetle - Oiceoptoma thoracic


Big twigs
Chiffchaff - Phyloscopus collybita collecting nest material.
Blackcap singing nearby.
Mistle Thrush and wren singing as well.









Coltsfoot - Tussilago carrara


Dogwood - Cornus sanguinea

Field Maple - Acer campestris
?
?
Alder Fly - Sails lutaria

Dung Fly - Scathofaga furcata
?


Tapered Drone Fly - Eristalis pertinax
Pale front legs and tapering body.
Grasshopper nymph.
Hop - Humulus Lupulus

Common Lizard - Zootopa vivipara

Horsetail - Equisetum spp


Scorched Carpet - Ligdia adustata
UK Moths
Moths by Family
Palmate Newt - Lisotriton helveticus
Newt identification form Frog life

Shoveller - Anas clypeata

?


?
Comma - Polygonia c-album
Kelling Heath

A lone Silver Birch - Betual pendula
Woodlark - Lullula arborea singing high overhead.
They couldn't have a better Latin name: the heathland resounds with Lullula when they are singing.





Gorse - Ulex europeus
A juicy green caterpillar sunning itself on the gorse. spp?


Fresh young Silver Birch leaves.
Lots of dew laden funnels about this morning.
Super little bristly brown spiders. Spp???
Lots of Linnets - Linaria cannabina singing.
Chiffchaffs singing in profusion.
Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita





















