Norfolk part four

 We crossed the border into Suffolk to visit Weeting Heath National Nature Reserve to see if we could see any Stone Curlew. We did in fact there were another couple in the hide and they had counted at least sixteen, we didn’t see that many, I think the most we saw was eight however seeing only one before that was a great result. The same couple told us that the RSPB Lakenheath wasn’t far away so we had to visit there too. Suffice to say it was a long walk around the reserve for very little reward.

A centipede in the garden of the cottage.

For some reason a blister appeared near its head.

Lauxaniids Sp. of Fly?

Box Bug instar.

Stone Curlew.

Six in this shot.

24-spot Ladybird at Lakenheath.

Great White Egret.

Little Egret.

Common Tern in a dive.

It came up with a fish.

Ruddy Darter.

Back at the cottage there were dozens of Migrant Hawker hawking over the field next door.

Wasp cleaning its self. 

Norfolk part three

 We visited Blickling Hall National Trust on the 20^th; we first had a walk around the gardens where there were loads of butterflies flying around then after a bit of bait, we looked around the house. We came back into the gardens where we could hear Green Woodpecker what I didn’t expect was to see four of them on ground feeding on ants. I know you should never blame your tools but I had only had a 300mm lens on the camera and the light was horrendous with harsh sunlight and dark shadows but I got some images and photoshop has done canny.

I came across some Green Woodpeckers feeding on the border of a path. They flew into the trees on seeing me.

But came back down.

They were constantly getting chased off by visitors.

However, they came back to the same borders to feed.

The four of them were watching a Grey Squirrel in the branches above them. 

Back to the trees.

Female Black-tailed Skimmer.

Male.

Mating pair.

Emperor Dragonfly.

Female Broad-bodied Chaser.

Painted Lady Butterfly.

Common Blue Butterfly.

Small Copper Butterfly.

Meadow Brown Butterfly.

Harlequin Ladybird I wish I had my macro lens with me.

Reed Warbler. It was moving about in the reeds and when it did come out it was behind a wire fence.

Norfolk part two.

 A visit to Hickling Broad was a must while we were in Norfolk for Swallowtail Butterfly. We were over the moon to see at least three as a Swallowtail is a first for me. There were loads of Southern Hawker and Brown Hawker flying around but only the former stayed still for any length of time. As well as loads of Dragonflies I have never seen as many Gatekeeper Butterflies in one place. When we got back to the cottage we went for a walk and I found some other photo opportunities’.

Swallowtail Butterfly.

Painted Lady.

Gatekeeper.

Wall Butterfly.

Southern Hawker.

Ruddy Darter.

Ruddy Darter.

Black-tailed Skimmer with what looks like a Horse Fly for lunch.

Shieldbug Digger Wasp with lunch.

Mining Bee.

Anthocomus rufus Beetle.

Dock Bug, we found a few along a lane near to the cottage.

Box Bug nymph.

There were also quite a few Crickets along the lane.

Horse Fly.

Harvestman.

A farmer was cutting his field with a combined harvester and before it got chewed to bits this Brown Hare did a runner 

Then stopped to have a look around. It’s only a shame I had the wrong settings and lens on the camera.