Branched Bur-reed ( Sparganium erectum )


Cyoerus Sedge ( Carex pseudocyperus )



Blue-tailed Damselfly ( Ischnura elegans )








Field Buttercup ( Ranunculus acris )















Flag iris ( Iris pseudacorus )







Black-tailed Skimmer - Female ( Orthetrum cancellatum ) Wings not quite fully formed. Sitting quietly in the reeds.







Lesser Stichwort ( Stellaria graminea )



Common Spotted Orchid ( Dactylorhiza fuchsii )



Silverweed ( Argentina anserina )







Sweet Flag ( Acorus calamus )









Water Forget me not ( Myosotis scorpioides )



Mayfly living up to it's name. ( Ephemeroptera

Tag CloudBranchedBur-reed, Blue-tailedDamselfly, FieldButtercup, FlagIris, HairyDragonfly, LesserStitchwort, CommonSpottedOrchid, Silverweed, SweetFlag, Brooklime

Military Orchid ( Orchis militaris )







Goat's Beard ( Tragopogon pratensis )









Twayblade ( Listera ovata )

Tag CloudTwayblade, Goat'sBeard, MilitaryOrchid

Azure Damselfly ( Coenagrion puella )







Hairy Hawker ( Brachytron pratense )









Fen Sedge ( Cladium mariscus )

Tag CloudAzureDamselfly, HairyDragonfly, FenSedge

Just breathtaking today.



















Redshank ( Tringa totanus ) piping in the flooded creeks near the fishing boats at high tide.



Shoveller ( Anas clypeata )





One bird moved from the nest.









The partner settled on the nest.



But something wasn't quite right.







Settling down but is still wasn't quite right.









Aah. Now we're there.









Avocet ( recurvirostra avocetta )









Sea Campion ( Silene uniflora )









Sea Kale ( Crambe marítima )







Horned Poppy in bud ( Glaucium flavum )



























Mating Oystercatchers







Oystercatcher ( Haematopus longirostris )





Ringed Plover ( Charadrius hiatacula )









Thrift ( Armeria marítima )








The Bouy at the point.



Shellduck ( Tadorna tadorna )



Desiccated Hare











The tide line














Sea Spurge ( Euphorbia paralias )



Kestrel ( Falco tinnunculus )

Tag CloudLandscape, Avocet, Oystercatcher, SeaKale, Redshank, Shoveller, SeaCampion, RingedPlover, Thrift , SeaSandwort, Shellduck, Kestrel, SeaSpurge, Tideline, HornedPoppy

Meadow Thistle (Cirsium dissectum )



Green Veined White ( Pieris napi )





Marsh Orchid

Tag CloudMeadowThistle, MarshOrchid, GreenVeinedWhite

Common Blue - male ( Polyommatus icarus )









Small Copper - ( Lycaena phlaeas )









Marsh Orchids - Hybrids between Pugsley's Marsh Orchid and Southern Marsh Orchids although one of them might have bit of Common Spotted Orchid.

The top one may actually be a Pugsley's Marsh Orchid. Certainly all the flowers were largely facing one way.







Meadow Thistle ( Cirsium dissectum )











Keeled Skimmer ( Orthetrum coerulescens )





Cuckoo Flower ( Cardamine pratensis )





Yellow Rattle - ( Rhinanthus minor )





Ragged Robin ( Lychnis flos-culculi)









Spring Beauty - ( Claytonia perfoliata )






Greater Sundew ( Drosera anglica )

Tag CloudCommonBlue, SmallCopper, MarshOrchid, MeadowThistle, KeeledSkimmer, CuckooFlower, YellowRattle, RaggedRobin, SpringBeauty, LongLeavedSundew

Field Buttercup ( Ranunculus acris )





Common Bistort ( Persicaria bistorta )



Star of Bethlehem ( Ornithogalum umbellatum )

Tag CloudCommonBistort, StarOfBethlehem

Muntjac ( Muntiacus reevesi )











Gorse Shield Bug ( Pizodorus lituratus )

White Campion - ( Silene latifolia )



Poppy ( Papaver rhoeas )

Tag CloudWhiteCampion, FieldPoppy

Nightjar recording

Tag CloudFieldRecording

The amazing Giant Viper's Bugloss ( Echium pininana ).

At the end of the dead end road leading form Potter Heigham to the marshes.




Hickling Broad

Savi's Warbler singing and seen but not recorded.

Sedge Warbler
nearby

SedgeWarbler-230517








Potter Heigham Marshes

Spoondbill
Black Winged Stilt
Temminck's Stint
Garganey







Spoonbill ( Platalea leucorodia )







Ribwort Plantain ( Plantago lanceolata )



Prickly Sowthistle ( Sonchus asper )









Four Spotted Chaser ( Libellula quadrimaculata )














Swallowtail Butterfly ( Papilio machaon )



Reed Bunting ( Emberiza schoeniclus )

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording, Spoonbill, Swallowtail, RibwortPlantain

Scot's Pine ( Pinus sylvestris )









Pignut ( Conopodium majus )

Kippernut, arnut, garnet, hawk nut, cipernut, groundnut, hognut, earthnut & St Anthony's nut according to Wikipedia.





















May Lilly ( Maianthemum bifolium )

Tag CloudMayLilly, Pignut, Scot'sPine

Common Mouse-ear ( Cerastium fontanum )

Garden Warblers singing



Also

Blackcap
and
Robin

Tag Cloud CommonMouse-ear, FieldRecording

While listening unsuccessfully for an Iberian Chiffchaff this morning the view at the southern end of the footpath through Wallsey Hills beckoned.

Tag CloudLandscape

View from Wiveton Down to the South West











Heath Bedstraw ( Gallium saxatile )

Red Kite over

Tag CloudHeathBedstraw, Landscape

Sanicle ( Canicule europea )





Wood Avens ( Geum urbanum )



Wood Sorrel seed head - ( Oxalis acetosela )

Tag CloudSanicle, WoodAvens, WoodSorrell

Sea Milkwort ( Glaux maritima )





Meadow Pipit ( Anthus pratensis )

Tag CloudSeaMilkwort, MeadowPipit

Black Bog Rush ( Schoenus nigricans )















Common Butterwort ( Piguicula vulgaris )














Marsh Orchids

Trying to decide if the top one is Pugsley's Marsh Orchid and thew bottom one is Southern Marsh Orchid



Spider Spp ?







Round-leaved Sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia )




Common Milkwort ( Polygala vulgaris )








Guelder Rose ( Viburnum opulus )

Tag CloudBlackBogRush, CommonButterwort, Round-leavedSundew, Landscape

Preening in the early morning sunlight.



Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola )



Avocet ( Recurvirostra avosetta )











Sand Martins ( Riparia riparia )

Cleaning out the nests ready for laying.









Sea Milkwort ( Glaux maritima )





Meadow Pipit ( Anthus pratensis )

Tag CloudStonechat, SandMartin, Avocet, MeadowPipit

Whooper Swan ( Cygnus cygnus )



At least a hundred Black Terns

20 or so Little Gulls

A pair of Red Necked Grebes

Marsh Harrier




Thrush Nightingale









Whitethoat

Lesser Whitethroat

Penduline Tit

Whinchat





and

Common Rosefinch

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording, Whinchat, WhooperSwan, ThrushNightingale

A boardwalk through this area takes you through the variety of habitats. Mire - Dry wood - Wet mire with pools.

A pair of Goosander were basking in the glow of the evening sunshine.





Estonia hay meadow management.

Surprising few birds as I believe this is designed to increase biodiversity.









White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia )







Common Crane ( Grus grus )











Hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus )



Thrush Nigthingale singing










Hazel Grouse nibbling the new shoots on the Silver Birch.

Great Grey Owl

White Backed Woodpecker











Wood Warbler singing.







Marsh Marigold ( Caltha palustris )





Buttercup Anemone ( Anemone ranunculoides )

















Green Hairstreak ( Callophrys rubi )




An Icterine Warbler singing from high in these trees.







Pied Flycatcher & Spotted Flycatcher also present.
















White Wagtail ( Motacilla alba )


on the road
to
Tartu



White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia )








Common Crane ( Grus grus )

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording, WhiteWagtail, WhiteStork, GreenHairstreak, MarshMarigold, ButtercupAnemone

Whinchat on the telephone wires













Not the best photographs but an Elk nonetheless. Just pleased to see one. Brilliant. ( Cervus canadensis )











Scot's Pine - cones ( Pinus sylvestris )



Ling on a cold and frosty morning. ( Calluna vulgaris )



?



Bog Rosemary ( Andromeda polifolia )





Great Grey Shrike ( Lanius excubitor )

also

Tree Pipit
Redshank
Snipe
Black Tailed Godwit





Much more moist at this end of the mire.



Fantastic breeding Black Tailed Godwit.

Flying overhead calling.



and
a

Two syllable burst

BTG-1305171


Just down the road out of the park in a glade





Pied Flycatcher ( Ficedula hypoleuca )

also

Redstart

Tag CloudLandscape, BlacktailedGodwit, GreatGreyShrike, Scot'sPine, LingHeather, Elk

Haeska meadows on the North Shore of Matsalu bay.

Barnacle and Whitefront on stop over. ( Branta leucopsis & Anser albifrons )











Coats of many colours.

Ruff on the flooded fields.
and
Wood Sandpiper









Hundreds of Ruff out on the shoreline. ( Philomachus pugnax )



Kloostri

The channel here controls the water level of the flood meadows.

Lesser Spotted Eagle on the road from Haesta to Kloostri





A circular walk here leads out onto the reedbeeds.

White Tailed Sea Eagle breeding in the reed beds.
Common Crane
Montague's Harrier
Blue Headed Wagtail
Wood Sandpiper
White Stork







Water Horsetail - ( Equsitum fluviatile )



Solomon's Seal ( Polygonatum multiflorum )



Wood Anemone ( Anemone nemorosa )









Buttercup Anemone ( Anemone ranunculoides )



Ash bud ( Fraxinus excelsior )





Sea Buckthorn ( Hippophae rhamnoides )





Norway Maple ( Acer platanoides )



Bird Cherry ( Prunus pads )

Tag CloudLandscape, BarnacleGeese, Ruff, ButtercupAnemone, Solomon'sSeal, Ash, SeaBuckthorn, BirdCherry, NorwayMaple, WoodAnemone, WoodSandpiper, WaterHorsetail

In a glade in the woodlands at the northern end of Leidissoo

Tree Pipit



and

Yellow Hammer

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording

A major migration watch point.









Oystercatcher ( Haematopus ostralegus )



Long Tailed Duck sunning itself on the rocks. Many hundreds further out into the water. ( Clangula hyemalis )













Pasque Flower growing on the beach. ( Pulsatilla vulgaris )





Banks of Wood Anemone on the road to Poosaspea ( Anemone nemorosa )













Hepatica ( Hepatica nobilis )











Ants ?

Tag CloudLandscape, Oystercatcher, LongTailedDuck, PasqueFlower, WoodAnemone, Ants

Further up the road from Sutlepa towards Poosaspea an area of cut wood held a singing Bluethroat Red Spotted form. ( Luscinia svecica )

Tag CloudLandscape

Dawn light on the trees.






Soundscape from the reedbed.




Soundscape from the woodland edge a few hundred yards from the reeds.











A Cormorant colony just by the watchtower. ( Phalacracorax carbo )





A very changeable morning. From snowflurries to sunshine.

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording, Cormorant

Haapsalu Bay









Common Gull ( Larus cannus )



A pair of Great Crested grebe in the bay. ( Podiceps cristatus )

The pair below were just putting the finishing touches to their nest.





Diving down to collect fresh weed.





The first time on the nest.







Seems okay



One more bit of reed.







Hooded Crow scavenging in the harbour. ( Corvus cornix )



Jackdaw ( Corvus monedula )













The most delightful Tree Sparrows in and around the park and water's edge. ( Passer montanus )



Goosander in the bay. ( Mergus merganser )







Common tern fishing in the harbour. ( Sterna hirundo )

Tag CloudLandscape, TreeSparrow, Jackdaw, HoodedCrow, Goosander, GreatCrestedGrebe

Red Deer - ( Cervus elaphus )

Tag CloudRedDeer

Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula





Superb hedge laying





Red Campion - Silene dioica



White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

Tag CloudEarlyPurpleOrchid, RedCampion, WhiteDeadNettle

Green Winged Orchid - Orchis morio

Tag CloudGreenWingedOrchid

Man Orchid - Orchis anthropophora











Wild mignonette - Reseda lutea





Common Bird's Foot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

Tag CloudManOrchid, Mignonette, Bird'sFootTrefoil

The most beautiful old Beech tree.











Lady Orchid - Orchis purpurea










Duke of Burgundy Fritillary - Hamearis lucina

















Wayfaring Tree - Viburnum lanthanum



Dogwood - Cornus sanguinea

Tag CloudLandscape, LadyOrchid, DukeOfBurgundyFritillary, WayfaringTree, Dogwood, Beech

Whitethroat - Sylvia communis



Marsh Harrier - Cygnus aeruginosus





Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps crostatas



Sedge Warbler - Acrocephalus schnoenobaenus















Sea Kale - Crambe maritima









Sea Campion - Silene uniflora

Tag CloudLandscape, Whitethroat, GreatCrestedGrebe, SedgeWarbler, MarshHarrier, SeaKale, BladderCampion

Wheatear - Oenanthe oenanthe























Wild Cabbage - Brassica oleracea







Rock Samphire - Crithmum maritimum

















Early Spider Orchid - Ophrys sphegodes

Tag CloudLandscape, Wheatear, EarlySpiderOrchid, WildCabbage

Beautiful old Crack Willows









Celery-leaved Buttercup ( Ranunculus sceleratus )



Reed Warbler - Acrocephalus scirpaceus, one of the many singing this morning.



Sedge Warbler



Cetti's Warbler
Which can be heard calling in the reedbed Dawn Chorus recording below.

Blackcap



Dawn Chorus in woodland at Stodmarsh



Dawn Chorus in the reedbed at Stodmarsh



Hobby and Marsh Harrier

On the lane down towards Stodmarsh are these tremendous woodlands full of Bluebells

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording, ReedWarbler, Bluebells

Lady Orchid - Ophrys purpurea







Fly Orchid - Ophrys insectifera





Twayblade - Neottia ovata

Tag CloudLadyOrchid, Twayblade, FlyOrchid, WoodMillet

Dunnock - Prunella modularis



Whitethroat - Sylvia communis

A number of Nightingale singing but not seen.









and
a
Cuckoo
plus
Common Sandpiper

Tag CloudDunnock, Whitethroat, FieldRecording

Fresh coppicing



Golden glow of Oak in the morning sunshine.





Hazel Coppice



Silver Birch - Betula pendula, in the morning sunshine



Hornbeam stool









Fresh lime leaves.

Small leaved lime - Tilia cordite

Tag CloudLandscape, SmallLeavedLime