Nightjar recording

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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

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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 )

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Common Mouse-ear ( Cerastium fontanum )

Garden Warblers singing



Also

Blackcap
and
Robin

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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

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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 )

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

Tree Pipit



and

Yellow Hammer

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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.

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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

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Dunnock - Prunella modularis



Whitethroat - Sylvia communis

A number of Nightingale singing but not seen.









and
a
Cuckoo
plus
Common Sandpiper

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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

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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

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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

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Mandarin - Aix galericulata











Gray Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

SantonDownham28031710 from Mike Ball on Vimeo.

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At least 330 years old apparently.



Magnificent trees







The brilliant touch of red to the trees at the moment.



Female Poplar catkins.




Super old oak in the sunshine.




Oak - Quercus robur




Brambling - Fringilla monitfringilla
in the trees this morning nibbling at the new shoots
characteristically wheezing.

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Rusty Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) and Beech (Fagus sylvatica)





Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia


and a

ChiffChaff
singing

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2 singing Chiffchaffs this morning
4 Dartford Warblers

+

Wood Lark singing

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Linnets singing away

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Yellow Hammers getting into the groove.



Green Woodpecker
Buzzard
At least a 100 Redwing passing through.

and
a
Blackbird on a post

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Common Frog - Rana temporaria

Hundreds of frogs and oodles of frog spawn and an amazing croak.








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Looking towards Cley













Woodlark singing
and
a
snatch of Dartford Warbler song.
and
a
Yellow Hammer tuning up for the Spring

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Oak standards (Quercus robur) with Hazel (Corylus Javellana) understorey.





Bracket Fungi?



Hazel Bark



Red Hazel flower



Male catkins below the female flower.







Hazel - Corylus avellana



Honeysuckle shoots - Lonicera periclymenum

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Early morning and the first Song Thrush is tentatively exploring the spring with a Crow for an accompaniment.

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Just still and calm today
with the odd car in the distance
The high pitched plaintive call with a little trill at the end of Long Tailed Tits
The even higher pitch of the occasional Goldcrest
and
the
occasional
short churr of a Dartford Warbler
















Gorse - Ulex europeus

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