A well flowering Lesser Water Plantain found during an excellent day with the Norfolk Flora Group on Grimston Warren @NorfolkNats

Black-horned Nomad Bee ♂︎ (Nomada rufipes), Heather Colletes (Colletes succinctus), & perhaps Hairy-saddled Colletes (Colletes fodiens)? @NorfolkNats @VannaBartlett1

Fossombronia Sp with characteristic purple rhizoids. Annual Knawel (Scleranthus annuus) & Water Purslane (Lythrum portula) from Grimston Warren @NorfolkNats

Three images produced a confirmed Small-notched Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus gazella) & a brilliant blue Trichrysis cyanea @NorfolkNats

A quartet study of a Grey-spotted Boxer (Platycheirus albimanus) from a warm, windless late afternoon. @NorfolkNats

Stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline of Norway’s seabirds theguardian.com/environment/20…

A little something from Beeston Common - Large Willow Bark Aphid (Tuberolachnus salignus), Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris), Intermediate Hook-moss (Scorpidium cussonii) & Yellow Starry Feather-moss (Campylium stellatum) @NorfolkNats

Eastern Stonechat at Weybourne @NorfolkNats

Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world theguardian.com/news/2024/oct/…

A quartet from Thornham A delightful day with Norfolk Flora group trying to understand the mysteries of Glasswort Id. One-flowered Glasswort (S disarticulata), Purple Glasswort (S ramosissima) and a late petalless flower of Shrubby Sea-blite (Sueda vera) @NorfolkNats

A very obliging Asian Desert Warbler at Winterton today. @NorfolkNats

Pinkfeet coming in to land at Cley, beams of morning sunlight coming through the cloud, painted on 24th Jan 2024. A painting from my forthcoming exhibition

Look at the map. As someone who shoots I’m appalled and embarrassed in equal measure. Fully metastasised across the entire country with a hot spot on my patch. Bloody hideous. Well done RSPB

Cley recently - Whooper Swan, Brown Hare, Golden Plover, Cattle Egret. @NorfolkNats

The rust Urocystis ranunculi on Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens) Occurs on both the leaves and the stalks. x400 & x 1000 @NorfolkNats

Michael Rosen: How and why the Primary English 'Writing' curricul... michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-an…

Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads | Long read theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why theguardian.com/environment/20…

Chris Thomas Leaf Epidermis and stomata prints method using UV Crystal Resin Quekett Bulletin 87 Sept 24 : Dr Chris J R Thomas : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/chris-… via Internet Archive