Wild Garlic (Ramsons) and Bluebells in a coppiced area of Centurions Copse, Brading, Isle of Wight. A truly beautiful area to visit buzzing with invertebrates.

Is it just me or has it just been a great spring for Bee Flies. I'm submitting information to 'I record' daily!

A snatched shot of my first Green Veined White butterfly of the year on Kelling Heath Norfolk. Only when I looked carefully at the shot did I realise the bonus of a small hoverfly muscling in on the picture.

Spent the morning counting Bee Flies for iRecord in the Glaven Valley, N Norfolk when I noticed several of these Myopa (beegrabber) flies on the flowering Blackthorn. Their hosts are Andrena mining bees. New to me...

I couldn't walk past this private estate entrance in Cley village, North Norfolk today without admiring the extensive growth of Red Dead Nettle flowering around the flint wall, full of solitary and social bees.

We don't get enough arachnids on blue sky so here's one from today's walk. Araniella species (I think cucurbitina) hidden inside a honeysuckle leaf.
These are commonly known as cucumber spiders for obvious reasons...

Spring at last.
Been a good day on the N Norfolk coast. My first BeeFly, Chiffchaff and first Andrena barbilabris (bearded miner) of the year.
The marsh at Stiffkey had good numbers of recently arrived Meadow Pipits.

Patient courteous drivers are now in the minority. I drive defensively giving space, adhering to limits but that often alienates others.
No road policing anymore just fire brigade response after the event.

The chalk reef off the Norfolk Coast is thought to be unique in the world. It is only seen at very low tides. This part of the reef is off the Sheringham coastline. Great to snorkel along on a warm calm day.

Sorry, schoolboy error.....

cancelled not canceled!

Storm Goretti took a huge toll on seal pups. This was just one of five laid outside Sheringhams RNLI station this morning.

We have had an outstanding year for Wall Butterflies in North Norfolk this year. Incredible numbers especially along the coastal regions.

Well spotted.

Not often we see the High Street in Sheringham closed to allow a Brittania a visiting engine to move across it from the mainline onto the Heritage line of the North Norfolk Railway. Here for just a week having steamed all the way from Crewe!

Kelling Heath was short of birds and insects today in the cold northerly winds but the fungi made up for it.

I can't remember seeing Large White Butterfly larvae feeding quite so late in the year.
Not sure of the woody food plant they were feeding on at Stiffkey, Norfolk. Possibly a wild cabbage at the back of the marsh.

Couldn't resist taking this photograph of both flowering and seed heads of this Perennial Sowthistle on the marsh today.

Pleased to find a Reed Dagger moth larvae on Norfolk Reed at Cley yesterday. This individual sat outside Teal Hide. I don't think anyone else noticed it. To busy looking up!

It's taken most of my life to get close enough to a Water Vole to snatch a quick photograph. It's not perfect but I'm pleased with it.
Catchwater Drain, Cley 25.9.25

A warm sunny day watching insects around Stubbs Mill, Cley Reserve Norfolk.

Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.

Rather unusual to find a Vapourer larvae on hogweed amongst a reed bed this afternoon.

A male Bee Wolf, Philanthus truangulum encountered today in North Norfolk just guarding his territory. Only the females catch and paralyse live honey bees to provision their nests.

The Great Pied Hoverfly, Volucella pellucens (female) in the garden this morning feeding on lavender. The larva of this species live inside social wasp nests feeding on debris. What a stunner.

First Ospreys breed in East Anglia for centuries A pair of Ospreys have successfully bred at Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Ranworth Broad nature reserve, marking the first confirmed nesting and hatching of this iconic raptor in the East of England for ma...

First Ospreys breed in East Anglia for centuries

A pair of Ospreys have successfully bred at Ranworth Broad, marking the first confirmed nesting and hatching of this iconic raptor in the East of England for many years. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/F...

This has to be my favourite day flying moth, the Chimney Sweeper. This moth was in abundance today on the banks of the Findhorn River near Tomatin in the Highlands

Having fun in the Sun.

Mating Helophilus pendulums hoverflies. Cley Norfolk 28.5.25.

Also known as Sun Flies or The Footballer due to the stripes on the thorax.

Steatoda nobilis, the Noble False Widow Spider is now well established around the Norfolk Coast and southern Britain. It was first recorded in the 1870's near Torquay.

Pencilled Cranesbill growing on Hickling NWT reserve yesterday.
Exquisite.