First day of finding Natterjack spawn this year, plenty of spiders around the ponds including Pardosa amentata and Pardosa prativaga BAS ArableEmily #formerlyknownasweeds

Pardosa saltans, exceptionally common in Holkham Pinewoods today, hundreds scurrying about amongst the leaf litter in the sunshine BAS ArableEmily #formerlyknownasweeds

Great result for City today, was expecting much more from Ipswich but they hardly looked top of the table stuff

Pleased to contribute some more Holkham heron observations in BB this month

nice to see several White Wagtails about yesterday on the marsh

A rather nice Arctosa leopardus at Holkham

First Alopecosa barbipes this week. A large female, Burnham Overy. BAS Is it normal to find them in burrows like this? I usually just find them above ground. TurnFear2Fascination 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🕷️ ArableEmily #formerlyknownasweeds

What lovely photos here

A remarkable sight this morning. Saw a Hare escape getting run over by a fast moving Transit van. At last minute it jumped straight upwards, got as high as wind screen, impetus of van took it onto roof, slid over roof, landed on road and ran off.. Evel Knieval eat ya heart out !

20 years ago, a trip to Uganda and these fellows provided me with the most exciting and overwhelming hour of my life

Its a formula that has worked but its a bit of harsh comment, lots of variation in the theme.....give me If You Want Blood, Let There Be Rock and Powerage ahead of anything from The Who thankyou...

looks like Holkham got off lightly the other week....

Male Spoonbills can fight fiercely at this time of year and it is not unusual to see birds with blood stained plumage. One regular form of attack is grabs of the lower leg. This one had received the treatment, although not seen one with so much blood before. GᖇᑌSᕮᑕ Werkgroep Lepelaar

Cormorants looking mighty fine at present

Little Egrets back at the heronry this week. Lots of necks out display flights going on.. or.. circle flights in heron jargon.... Every Heron 𓆀💙

Very occasionally I see Grey Herons and Great Whites descend in a mad zig zagging drop. Not quite whiffling, more like a visual announcement of arrival at the heronry. Being trying for years to capture the moment...nearly succeeded today .🙃 Every Heron 𓆀💙

Still a great album after 42 years no less !

A male hatched about 2 miles from where its currently setting up shop. Hatched in 2020. Went from Holkham to Yorkshire now he's back. Thanks to harrierman🇧🇼 for the info

Start of the Cormorant nesting season, displaying in earnest, very under rated birds

My view at the end of the day...and sometimes the start of it too