Just one Willow Warbler among 25 Chiffchaffs ringed at @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes yesterday. Sadly, now an uncommon species here outside of Thetford and King’s Forests. What are we doing to our world?
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Sorry Rob, I've been off Bsky for a while, mostly due to hand surgery badly timed for the best part of summer. Here is S. morio from @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes last weekend; length 8.2mm, membrane pale and rostrum beyond middle coxae; from Green Alkanet. My 3rd local record.
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Rainbows and birds at the @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes reserve this afternoon including a colour ringed Curlew ringed here in 2019.
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Pick your own superlative for this morning's first-calendar-year Caspian Gull at @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes reserve this morning. 😄
#birding #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
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Scots Pines reflected in shallow pool, against a bright blue sky
Map of the Nunnery Lakes reserve in Thetford, with orange lines showing routes walked in September 2024
Line graph of bird species recorded at the Nunnery Lakes, Norfolk in September 2024
It may not be a coastal migrant-magnet, but I'm lucky that I can walk my patch from home. 15 #BirdTrack lists so far in Sept: Green Sandpiper every time, 3 Whinchat, Swift 13/9, Marsh Harrier, Woodlark, 13 Kingfisher recs, 2 each of Great White Egret & Hobby. #lowcarbonbirding #NunneryLakes #birding
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Sunrise over wetland at Nunnerh Lakes reserve, Norfolk
Surely *one* of the migrant birds that arrived in East Anglia over the last 72 hours will have been dropped into the #NunneryLakes by the pre-dawn rain?! 🙏 Pretty sure the 6 Green Sandpipers were already here...
#birding
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A juvenile Knot, a grey-brown wading bird, on the water's edge at the BTO Nunnery Lakes nature reserve
A juvenile Knot, a grey-brown wading bird, and a Lapwing on the water's edge at the BTO Nunnery Lakes nature reserve
A great Knot find by @arcanelove.bsky.social at
@btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes yesterday evening (not to be confused with a Great Knot find)!
As usual, the local Lapwings were intolerant of anything different.
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Brassica Shieldbug - Eurydema oleracea
Woundwort Shieldbug - Eysarcoris venustissimus
Calocoris roseomaculatus nymph
Hoplomachus thunbergi
A few bugs from the weekend; Brassica Shieldbug, Woundwort Shieldbug and Calocoris roseomaculatus (nymph) from @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes and Hoplomachus thunbergi from a nearby Suffolk site. #30DaysWild
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Well a new platform and a blank canvas. I've been going through some photos and collating records from the summer. Here is Emblethis denticollis, abundant at @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes this July. Only three records on the NBN Atlas and a handful more on iRecord
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The re-meandered stretch of River Little Ouse @_BTO #NunneryLakes is a watery #chalkstream wonderland of willows, Alders, forgetmenot & the occasional Greater Water Dock, alternating narrow fast flowing channels, with wider shallows, deeper pools & tree-formed shady caves. 12/13
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Several small Pike in re-meandered stretch of River Little Ouse upstream of Thetford @BTO #NunneryLakes. In this quiet chalk stream paradise, they were very relaxed & approachable.
Look at patterns on the golden scales (top R.). #fridaymorning #WorldSmileDay #FridayFeeling
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Planned to survey @_BTO Nunnery Lakes y'day, but pea soup (+ Broad-leaved Pondweed) (angler: "worst for 20 yrs", like this for 2 months) so swam 1km up adjacent Little Ouse, then dip in 3rd Lake S (14.9°C) & saw dead Canada Goose - hope not #BirdFlu. #MySwim #NunneryLakes
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In @_BTO #NunneryLakes water plants biding their time: Water Mint? Forgetmenot? Canadian Waterweed? Yellow Water-lily.
Plenty Swan? Mussels.
Glorious to be back in the water for 1st time since Red Sea in Nov - blue sky & calm the same but water 20°C colder! #wildflowerhour
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Some fine Ganoderma brackets @_BTO Nunnery Lakes yesterday - the sign boards say Artist's Bracket are there.
Am guessing lower left is Alder Bracket (Mensularia radiata) & l. right Blushing Bracket (Daedaleopsis confragosa)?
#MyWalk #Fungi #NunneryLakes #Thetford #Norfolk
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Great to be back in #Chalkstreams this (partially) sunny autumn afternoon, after glass cut my knee open at this bridge on our last swim. Swam upstream 2/3 km beyond outflow pipe (from pumping station?), under a few fallen & overhanging trees. #NunneryLakes #Thetford #Norfolk 4/4
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In the River Little Ouse (12.4°C) at @_BTO Nunnery Lakes #NunneryLakes #Thetford a jack Pike, 1 of a shoal of small Dace & a small Bullhead out in the open next to 4 legs of a mystery creature - ?Caddis Fly Phryganeidae larva?
#MySwim #LittleOuse #Chalkstreams #Norfolk
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Makes me wish I’d found these 3 Spotted Redshank @RSPBLakenheath in the Brecks today, before twitching/ticking the one at @_BTO #nunnerylakes last week. 😹 #neversatisfied
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A good choice to do the weekly shop in Thetford today. A short diversion to, and a bit of a run around @_BTO #nunnerylakes eventually saw my #217 Brecks ✅ in the shape of this gorgeous Spotted Redshank. Thanks to @NeilCalbrade for find and directions.
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