Red Arrows heading south, Gunton Cliff, Lowestoft. About 27 minutes into the flight from home base of RAF Waddington cruising down the Suffolk coast en route for the #VEday80 London flypast🇬🇧

Lovely views of the Red-footed Falcons currently residing SWT Carlton Marshes this afternoon.

BEE-EATER calling NWT Cley Marshes 11:32.

Temminck's Stint NWT Cley Marshes

Simple Minds' 1985 video for the sublime Alive and Kicking is unsettling in many ways. No, it's not the brave use of johdpurs, tassles and shoulder pads - so very 80s - it's the brazen snub to health and safety. That bassist on the cliff edge...youtu.be/ljIQo1OHkTI?si…

A poplar tree near my home has the telltale exit holes of the Hornet Moth, but no adults have been seen for many years. This weekend, I was pleased to find a pair faire l'amour and this freshly emerged female.

D-Day: Omaha Beach assault, Allied invasion of Normandy, Operation Overlord, 6th June 1944. The Americans lost 2,400 men getting 34,000 troops ashore by nightfall.

Lugworm, Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk. This remarkable marine worm can hold its breath for a long time. Its haemoglobin can transport 40 times more oxygen than human haemoglobin. Quite useful when you're exposed to low tide conditions twice a day!

Now is the time to answer the call United Nations

The chances of being mauled by a Buff-tip are slim but never zero.

This Little Gull has visited Lowestoft North Beach for the last few years in late July. A puddle paddle provided a reflective pose this evening.

Zitting Cisticola aka Fan-tailed Warbler, Walberswick, Suffolk.

One good tern deserves another. This young Common Tern had both parents fishing for its tea this evening at Lowestoft North Beach.

Greenish Warbler, Ness Point, Lowestoft. Thanks Andrew Easton

Arnold Ridley experienced unimaginable horrors in both world wars. Battle of the Somme (19K British soldiers killed first day): bayonetted through the hand, suffered a fractured skull, gas attack, shrapnel and shell shock. 2WW: evacuated from Dunkirk with the BEF. A true hero.

This freshly-arrived first-winter Wheatear contemplated perching on me this evening at Lowestoft north beach.

Bogside, Derry, Northern Ireland.

Part of the 19 touring Glossy Ibis that flew over whilst having lunch at the excellent Southwold Pitstop Cafe earlier this afternoon.

Shocking and sad news. Prof Meldrum carried the torch for scientific inquiry into the twilight world of relict hominoids after the passing of Dr Grover Krantz. In Gigantopithecus, Bigfoot was never very far away.

The Few 🇬🇧🇵🇱 🇨🇦 "The price of greatness is responsibility" #BattleOfBritain85