A barn owl successfully quartered a clear fell in the brilliant evening light, and seemed to want to accompany me for part of my walk, apparently enjoying the audience.
@SiBirdClub #Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 4/4
Winter birches - such loveliness.
Poor's Allotment an enchanted faerie land as always, emanating the scritch of snipe and heron, as a prospecting pair of Marsh Harrier sail over.
#Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 3/4
Stumbled across the @ForestryEngland @SupportNNT reserve managers at Frost's Common, doing rather convincing auroch impressions.
#highlandcow #highlandcows #highlandcattle #Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk
2/4
Love how every pingo at Frost's Common has its own character, completely different from every other.
Soundtrack: Buzzard cry, tit call, Chiffchaff, anting Green Woodpecker, territorial Great Spots.
#MyWalk #pingo #Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 1/5
On a muggy, blowy evening, wayside plants of the #PeddarsWay: Spear Mint (Mentha pulegium), Common toadflax (Linaria vulgaris), Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) & ripening Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus)
#Hockham #Thompson #Breckland #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving #WildflowerHour 2/3
Sweet Chestnut embracing an old stump, and a small proportion of the other variants of trunks in a previously coppiced Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) grove.
#MyWalk #SweetChestnut #Hockham #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 1/3
Cranberry Rough and Hockham Fen, among the wildest, wettest places in Norfolk.
#Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk 5/5
Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), Meadow Saxifrage (Saxifraga granulata) and Grey Herons at Hockham Fen.
#Bogbean #Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk 4/5
The exquisite Water Violet (Hottonia palustris), star of the show at Cranberry Rough and Hockham Fen. Carpets and carpets of them all over the place.
#WaterViolet #OurWorldIsWorthSaving #wildflowerhour #Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk 2/5
A wonder of Water Violets (Hottonia palustris) at Cranberry Rough and Hockham Fen, to the notes of Cuckoo, Nightingale and (!) Greenshank.
#MyWalk #WaterViolet #OurWorldIsWorthSaving #wildflowerhour #Hockham #Brecks #Breckland #Norfolk 1/5
At last! #Breckland frogspawn, some tadpoles already hatched, in unglamorous puddles in forest track ruts rather than picturesque pingos. (Rescued 1 lot, being left high & dry, pushing it into middle of puddle.) Also a tiny red water mite. #spawnsurvey Broom Covert #Hockham 3/3
A honeysuckle trained birch trunk, with clangorous soundtrack of Nuthatch, Chiffchaff and Buzzard, in Cranberry Wood. Incredible densities of Grey Squirrels. Lots of Jays too. Many perhaps looking for things they'd hidden on the ground.
#Hockham #Breckland #Norfolk 2/3
A mildish, still, spring afternoon in #TheBrecks (it's plastic sheeting in the background, not water).
#MyWalk #Hockham #Breckland #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 1/3
The Red Deer have clearly had lots of fun on the plastic sheeting at Little #Hockham!
Tonight the clouds were too jealous of the sun to give it even the smallest chink through which to colour the western skyline.
#Norfolk 3/3
As joyous as it is to see displaying Lapwings, feels strange when they land on fields covered in monstrous strips of plastic.
#Hockham #Breckland #Norfolk 4/9
Thrilling to come across 4 pairs of Lapwings in bursts of full, tumbling spring dance, albeit over hideous plastic sheeting.
#Hockham #Breckland #Norfolk #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 3/9
