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.