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

Tag CloudWillow, MarshValerian, CuckooFlower, Alder, Brooklime, LargeBitterCress

Beautiful Willow at the end of the village towards Gladford - Crack Willow - Salix fragilis



Hoverfly - Melangyna viridiceps



Alexanders - Smyrnium olusatrum









Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale

Tag CloudWillow, Dandelion

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



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Alder Fly - Sails lutaria





Dung Fly - Scathofaga furcata



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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





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Comma - Polygonia c-album

Tag CloudSpider, FieldMaple, Dogwood, Coltsfoot, Landscape, FieldRecording, Shoveller, Willow, Fly, Weevil, Viburnum, Chiffchaff

Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus









Just coppiced



One year coppice?













Willow - Salix spp?







Bird Cherry - Prunus pads



Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyne

















Yellow Star of Bethlehem - Gagea lutea



Comma - Polygonia c-album

Brimstone butterflies on the wing.
Chiffchaff singing
Great Spotted and Green Woodpeckers
Marsh Tit

Tag CloudHornbeam, Willow, YellowStarOfBethlehem, Landscape, Comma

Largely grey and blustery. Just occasionally the sun shone through.







Willow - Salix spp?










Wonderful green bracket fungus. Spp??








Alder (Alnus glutinous) caught between blusters of wind - just.

Redpoll, Siskin, Grey Wagtail

Tag CloudAlder, Willow, Landscape

Wonderful majestic pollarded willow on the road between Sea Palling and Hickling.

Tag CloudWillow