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Norway is now going AGAINST the cashless agenda looking at FORCING shops to accept physical cash payments.

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Last piece of the jigsaw being jacked in to place this morning at the new Gull Wing bridge over Lake Lothing in Lowestoft. #gullwing #Lowestoft

All of a sudden the government ONS need to change their recording method to reduce the record excess deaths in the UK by 65% for 2023. Can we expect new methods each year to keep numbers constant? Welcome to the wonderful world of statistics.

🚨🇬🇧 Excess Deaths Rebranded

The UK has gone full on Orwellian - the ONS (Office National Statistics) are changing the way they now classify excess deaths/mortality.

They DONT WANT YOU KNOWING how many more people are dying than should be expected.

I wonder why…….?

Every cloud has a silver lining they say - had planned to go to Ely beer festival today but due to train strikes had a day birding locally instead and found this Long-billed Dowitcher at SWT Carlton Marshes Suffolk Wildlife Trust North East Reserves SWT Carlton Marshes

The Cattle Egret flock on Fritton Marshes had increased from 8 on Saturday to 10 today. They were finding plenty to eat in the flooded marsh pools.

The first winter Great Northern Diver in Mutford Lock basin Oulton Broad this morning.

Hollesley, 3 caspian gulls 2 adults and a 1st winter. Great white egret. All in fading light. More gulls on shingle ridge but no white wingers.

Great Northern Diver in Barnhill Creek, Rutland Water.

The presumed returning Eastern Yellow Wagtail on Peto's Marsh at SWT Carlton Marshes on Sunday 26th November 2023 @SWTSiteManager SWT Carlton Marshes

6 shorelarks kessingland north beach on shingle below Pakefield coastguard station. 26 flighty snow bunting also in same area.

Successful lunch break twitch to Mutford Lock basin to see the Velvet Scoter.

A rather quieter seawatch off Ness Point in Lowestoft this morning, with the highlight being this Sooty Shearwater heading north. Not quite up to the standard of the recent shearwater activity in the western approaches but much appreciated nonetheless.

A fairly close Pomarine Skua was the highlight at Ness Point, Lowestoft this morning.
Also:
17 Arctic Skua
94 Gannet
2 Tufted Duck
3 Wigeon
129 Teal
23 Scoter
12 Dunlin
2 Sanderling
1 Fulmar
1 Ringed Plover
1 Red-throated Diver
15 Sandwich Tern
4 Common Tern
1 Caspian Gull

Remarkable twist in the mean number of butterflies on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects: instead of the usual decline in August numbers went up (a little), caused by lots of Whites (Pieris species), Small Heath (C pamphilus) and Small Copper (L phlaeas).

Westland Sea Lynx Mk.88A (83+17) of the German Navy flew south past Lowestoft this afternoon.

On 25th July the eclipse drake Ring-necked Duck at SWT Carlton Marshes had started shedding its secondaries. Today (29th) it had shed the rest of its flight feathers, with many of the replacements already growing. Other photo from 22nd. @SWTSiteManager

Drake Ring-necked Duck from North Hide at Carlton Marshes SWT this evening. @SWTSiteManager SWT Carlton Marshes Lewis Yates