We're taking part in the Brecks Outdoor Festival! Celebrate outdoor activities in the Brecks with us this Summer: 9th - 24th August. You can find out more here: brecks.org/brecks-outdo...
#brecksoutdoorfestival2025 #breckland #thebrecks #ilovethebrecks #norfolkevents #suffolkevents #familyevents
Today, feeling balmy and spring like around Beachamwell and Shingham, it was all Skylark song and mad Hares getting ready for March - in excess of 20 in some fields.
#BrownHares #BrownHare #lepuseuropaeus #Norfolk #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks #MyWalk
1/4
And when bird flu inevitably causes it to be shut down and the animals incinerated, it will be blamed on a Stone Curlew*.
* any wild bird (but not game birds, inconvenient as they are are for being another reservoir for the virus, they're good for shooting at)
Save #TheBrecks from this hell.
Take a journey with me me down the River Lark past long strands of Fennel Pondweed (Stuckenia pectinata) towards River Water Crowfoot and Water Starwort and straps of Arrowhead or Bur-reed. #macrophytes #freshwater #Wildflowerhour #MacrophyteMonday #TheBrecks #WestSuffolk
4/22
Rare Wind & Water Mill of The Brecks!
I'm excited to share my latest video, created as part of The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund! 🎥
youtu.be/gq1GWSUlhEA 🌱✨
#TheBrecks #Heritage #Conservation #NationalHeritageLottery
We surprised a Tawny Owl & a Fox in a thicket.
As the sun lowered, the deer emerged from the King's Forest; a lone Fallow and, in the sugar beet, a two-headed Red Deer.
#FallowDeer #RedDeer #Icklingham #WestSuffolk #TheBrecks #Brecks #Breckland
10/10
The Rampart's Field Maiden Pinks (Dianthus deltoides) were furling for the night, and among the impressive hummocks of Heather (Calluna vulgaris) were constellations of Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) & Field Mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense). #Wildflowerhour #TheBrecks 8/10
Cotton Thistle isn't the only statuesque plant standing sentry in #TheBrecks at present. Also, Dark Mullein (Verbascum nigrum), Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans), Houndstongue , Weld (Reseda luteola) & of course twisted Scot's Pines marching the skyline. #Wildflowerhour #Suffolk 4/10
Cavenham Heath is again wonderfully wet after all the rain - which has now stopped, with a rainbow - the River Lark in full spate.
The rookery is beginning to expand out onto the heath from the birch wood.
#WestSuffolk #TheBrecks #RiverLark #Breckland #CavenhamHeath 2/2
Pingoland always holds a sense of magic, not least on this gift of a bright day on the cusp of spring.
Berries still on the Red Deer-topiaried Holly.
The blooming Gorse tells that, as ever, kissing is in season.
#ThetfordForestPark #Norfolk #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks 2/4
Exceptionally (for here in the Brecks) luxuriant mounds of Greater Water-moss (Fontinalis antipyretica) flow in the River Thet around Melford Bridge, Thetford.
#Norfolk #Chalkstreams #Thetford #RiverThet #Bryophytes @BBSbryology #wildflowerhour #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks
4/7
A treat to be welcomed home to the village by a herd of Red Deer.
#Tuddenham #WestSuffolk #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks #RedDeer
7/7
Left daughters enjoying Easter sun at Oxborough Ferry as parents snorkelled up Wissey. Is this a bryophyte growing at ferry? #WildflowerID
Wonder if vis. in this stretch of Wissey ever clears, flowing here into #TheFens from #TheBrecks where so gorgeous. #wildflowerhour. 7/7
A crop of Ganoderma bracket fungi bathed in the reflected ripples of the beautiful, fast flowing River Wissey.
#chalkstreams #Ickburgh #thebrecks #fungi #ganoderma #mycology #FungiTwitter #mycologytwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity #bracketfungus #FungiFriday #Sundaythoughts
4/6
On banks of the gorgeous clear, but cold (5.3°C) Wissey, wild guess at this whitish fungus: Hygrophorus unicolor?
Equally wild at these rusty toadstools under spruces at Lynford Arboretum? Cortinarius ovatosporus?
#fungi #LynfordArboretum #ThetfordForest #thebrecks #Breckland 3/3
Under Beech in the forestry plantation at Lynford could this tiny white toadstool be Beech-Leaf Bonnet (Mycena capillaris)?
And the other, Scurfy Twiglet?
#fungi #Lynford #ThetfordForest #Thetford #Breckland #Norfolk #thebrecks #mycology #FungiFriday #Brecks
2/3
At Deadman's Grave could the top fungi be Scurfy Twiglet (Turbaria furfuracea) and the lower, Entolomas?
#fungi #FungiFriday #Icklingham #WestSuffolk #TheBrecks #Brecks #Breckland #Suffolk
4/4
Always good to find Earthtongue.
Many puffballs of several species on Deadman's Grave; is this Grassland Puffball (Lycoperdon lividum)?
I wonder what this funnel shaped mushroom is?
#fungi #FungiFriday #Icklingham #WestSuffolk #TheBrecks #Brecks #Breckland #Suffolk
3/4
Nothing like a flock of bouncing Fieldfares, in the long awaited winter sun, to gladden the heart.
#MyWalk #fieldfare #fieldfares #starlings #DeadMansGrave #Icklingham #WestSuffolk #TheBrecks #Brecks #Breckland #BirdsSeenIn2022
1/4
Hares abound around Hilborough.
Countryside already looking a bit tired & late summery.
Mute Swan guarded ford over River Wissey.
A tributary crossed by Home Lane also looking lovely.
#RiverWissey #BirdsSeenIn2021 #hare #Hares #sundayvibes #TwitterNatureCommunity #thebrecks
4/4
Plenty of Ragwort around Hilborough & some fine headlands with Dark Mullein & Poppies.
Hedge Mustard (Sisymbrium officinale) & Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) on the roadsides.
Bullfinch in the hedges.
#wildflowerhour #hilborough #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks #Norfolk
3/4
Several extensive patrols of Dace in River Nar.
And Gudgeon, including of good size, more numerous than have ever seen them elsewhere.
#Dace #Gudgeon #RiverNar #Chalkstreams #Chalkstream #KingsLynn #Norfolk #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks #freshwaterfishes #freshwaterfish
6/9
Absolute blizzards of Chub in the River Nar - of all size classes. Never seen anything like it. Often in mixed schools of eg Roach. Quite a few damaged/diseased.
#RiverNar #Chalkstreams #Chalkstream #KingsLynn #Norfolk #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks #freshwaterfishes
5/9
Here's a little Brown Trout parr hanging in the brisk current of the River Wissey.
#Browntrout #trout #Ickburgh #Wissey #RiverWissey #ChalkStreams #Chalkstream #Breckland #TheBrecks #Norfolk #30DaysWild @WildTroutTrust @SalmonTroutCons @Britnatureguide
3/8
A breath-takingly glorious, display of Chalk Stream Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus penicillatus) on the River Wissey.
#Ickburgh #Wissey #RiverWissey #ChalkStreams #Chalkstream #Breckland #TheBrecks #Norfolk #30DaysWild #wildflowerhour #crowfoot
6/8
River Wissey absolutely teeming in Brown Trout. Amazing range of individual variation in patterning.
#Browntrout #trout #Ickburgh #Wissey #RiverWissey #ChalkStreams #Chalkstream #Breckland #TheBrecks #Norfolk #30DaysWild
3/8
Among the abundant and confiding Brown Trout parr in the River Wissey, a beautiful black one with gold barring.
#Browntrout #trout #troutparr #Ickburgh #Wissey #RiverWissey #ChalkStreams #Chalkstream #Breckland #TheBrecks #Norfolk #30DaysWild
2/8
Breckland sunsets never get boring.
#Tuddenham #WestSuffolk #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks #Sunset #Sunsets
3/3
Here are some more miniature plants of the Breckland heaths: the winning rosette goes to Common Whitlowgrass (?), with runners up Parsley Piert, Biting Stonecrop & Wild Thyme.
#Icklingham #WestSuffolk #Brecks #TheBrecks #Breckland #wildflowerhour #rosettechallenge 3/6
Along the #RiverLark lots of Teal and Dabchicks seeking refuge from the ice, and on the #CavenhamHeath washes, c10 Snipe among the Lapwings, as the sun set behind the birches.
#WestSuffolk #Breckland #TheBrecks #Brecks #Sunset #WinterSunset #Suffolk 2/2
