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Formed in 1869, NNNS is a charity with a focus on natural history in the county of Norfolk, UK. We carry out and encourage research about local wildlife, produce publications & put on a range of events. Find out more at: https://norfolknaturalists.org.uk

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · Jul 29

Here is the listing of the late summer/early autumn NNNS events. Next up is a walk as part of our current research project at Sweet Briar Marshes (Sat 2nd Aug 2025). A newly added & highly recommended event on Sat 6th Sept 2025 is a walk at Winterton Dunes with Garth Coupland looking for spiders.

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norfolkseal.bsky.social @norfolkseal.bsky.social · 9h

4 species of shark and skate egg case found at Snettisham Beach yesterday.

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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 8h

Quite a few male Minotaur Beetles on the move at Dersingham Bog last week. What fabulous creatures they are.
#beetles #ento #UKwildlife

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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 9h

Monitoring Ingoldisthorpe today resulted in 73 birds, manly one Tit flock of over 40 birds, but this also included 3 Blackbirds, 5 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, a Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting, 2 Cetti's Warbler and 3 Bearded Tit @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 10h

Tickets are still available for the Broads Society Annual Lecture, given by James Parry on the subject of Norfolk's greatest naturalists. It's on Thursday 23rd Oct 2025 at Norwich School and tickets are £5 per person. To book see the Broads Society website www.broads-society.org/event-detail...

A screenshot of part of a website (https://www.broads-society.org/event-details/broads-society-annual-lecture-2025) advertising the Broads Society Annual Lecture 2025 on Thursday 23rd October in Norwich. Author and historian James Parry will give the lecture on Norfolk's greatest naturalists.

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 22h

Land Beneath the Waves paperback has been chosen for Waterstones pre-order promotion!! Pre-orders make such a difference & if you could support & share, I'd be so grateful.

Enter “OCTOBER25” at checkout for 25% off RRP.

www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

@summersdalebooks.bsky.social
#WPreorder

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Chris Mills @norfolkbirding.bsky.social · 1d

Best day so far this autumn for me. Lovely wander around Holkham & Overy with @sconebirding.bsky.social busy skies with 300+ Redwing, 40+ Brambling, 2500+ Starlings, 1-2s Fieldfare, Siskin, 20+ Blackbirds, flushed a SE Owl, Peregrine & 2 Yellow-browed Warblers.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 1d

Blackedge Bonnet, Mycena pelianthina.

In woodland at Tacolnston Hall, Norfolk, on yesterday's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray.

www.first-nature.com/fungi/mycena...

#Fungi #FungiFriends

Two picked fruitbodies of Blackedge Bonnet, Mycena pelianthina, showing cap (left) and gills (right).

Blackedge Bonnet, Mycena pelianthina, showing the dark purple-black edges of the gills.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to find my first Norfolk Homalenotus quadridentatus. A small juvenile under a brick in the gardens at Tacolneston Hall, found on a visit yesterday with Norfolk Fungus Study Group. This is a very scarce species in Norfolk. #Arachtober #Opiliones #Harvestmen #Arachnids

A small harvestman on the underside of a brick. The harvestman's body is patterned in dark and light squares with rows of raised tubercles. It has a horn like tubercle projecting from the front of the carapace in front of the eyes. The legs are covered in fine spines.

A small harvestman on some moss. The harvestman's body is patterned in dark and light squares with rows of raised tubercles. It has a horn like tubercle projecting from the front of the carapace in front of the eyes. The legs are covered in fine spines.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 1d

A respectable six psyllid species were recorded at Tacolneston whilst searching for fungi. One adult (Spanioneura fonscolombii on Box), one nymph (Trioza remota on Oak) and galls of Trioza alacris on Bay, Psylla buxi on Box (both pictured) plus Trioza centranthi and Psyllopsis fraxini agg.

A yellowy-green Bay leaf with a folded over galled edge (darkened to brown).

Green box leaves with a pale yellow 'cabbage gall' at one of the tips. The leaves are covered with dew.

A small green psyllid, Spanioneura fonscolombii on the bottom of a wet plastic tray.

The underside of a pale green Oak leaf, showing a pale Trioza remota nymph resting in a depression.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Some more fungi from yesterdays NFSG foray in south Norfolk: Velvet Shield (Pluteus umbrosus), a Lepiota species, a white jelly fungus (potentially Tremella mesenterica var. alba) and Meadow Coral (Clavulinopsis corniculata). #fungifriends

A brown toadstool-type fungus is growing out of a log. Most of the background shows dark brown bark. The cap of the fungus has a vein-like pattern.

A fungus with a domed white cap with dark brown freckles and a dark brown centre. It is growing from dead leaves.

A white jelly fungus is drooping down from an old branch.

A bright yellowy-orange branched coral fungus growing from the ground amongst some green leaves and grasses.

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The White Falcon @markgolley.bsky.social · 1d

Another highlight today was the stream of Dark-bellied Brents heading west offshore the whole time I was walked the shingle to Gramboro' Hill from East Bank. Hundreds of birds in clusters of 10s, 20s, 30s & 40s. Hefty movement of Common Gulls & some carbo Cormorants too.
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds

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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 2d

Monitoring Morston farm today:

Total: 22 (11)
Blue Tit - 4 (4)
Cetti's Warbler - 1
Dunnock - 0 (3)
Greenfinch - 1
Long-tailed Tit - 8
Meadow Pipit - 4
Robin - 2 (3)
Stonechat - 0 (1)
Wren - 2|

No real migration evident.

@btobirds.bsky.social @morstonpond.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

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Jane Ferguson @janeferguson.bsky.social · 3d

Our walk today from Bure Park, Great Yarmouth. Along the River Bure to Three Mile House. Highlights : Red-footed Falcon, 2 Common Sandpiper, Bearded Tit, large flock of Golden Plover & Ashtree Farm Drainage Mill.

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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 3d

From Marsham Heath yesterday, this looks to be Absconditella delutula, a tiny lichen that was found on a piece of dead wood. The spores are divided (1-septate) and the disc is pale and waxy-looking. First county record!

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Something else found on willows at Whitlingham today was this Marbled Orb-weaver, Araneus marmoreus var. pyramidatus (srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p...). Very noticeable against green leaves, but you can see how it might blend in once the leaves start to yellow in autumn.

A spider with a round yellow abdomen with a brown area near the back. The legs are banded dark brown and white. It is resting on the underside of some willow leaves, with a yellowed willow leaf to the left of the picture.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 3d

The other willow stem aphid that I found at Whitlingham today was Large Waxy Willow Aphid Plocamaphis flocculosa (influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Ploc...). When packed together in a group they are tricky to see, particularly the young ones that don't have strong spotting. Single adults stand out more.

A Willow stem covered in waxy aphids, appearing as a single waxy mass.

A close up of a section of the stem from the first photo showing a mass of waxy aphids.

A green willow stem with a waxy aphid climbing up. Two rows of black spots are visible on its back.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Whilst carrying out my WeBS count at Whitlingham today, I spot-checked lots of willows, hoping to find one of the Chaitophorus aphids that I've not seen yet. The most numerous aphid found were these ones, Giant Willow Aphid, Tuberolachnus salignus influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Tube...

A large winged aphid resting on a thin green willow stem. The aphidis pale grey, spotted with black.

Aphids on a green willow stem. In the centre is a large grey aphid with black spotting. To the rightare lots of small reddish-brown nymphs.

A cluster of black-spotted, grey aphids along a yellowy-green stem.

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Ken T @velociraptor500.bsky.social · 3d

Early morning visit to Cromer for the NENBC Coordinated Seawatch, no sun first thing (or later!) but the Pier was looking quite bright. Birds of note seen incl: Artic Skua, Mediterranean Gull, Red-throated Diver, Razorbill, Brent Goose, Gannet, Shag, Common Scoter, Wigeon, Teal.

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Anthony Speca | Aspen Ecology @aspenecology.com · 3d

Announcing another chance to learn #lichens online! My next 'Lichens for Beginners' course starts in January. Perfect for anyone just discovering these unique and beautiful life-forms. All you need to know to understand lichens and identify common species. Join me! aspenecology.com/lichens-for-...

Variospora (Caloplaca) flavescens : England : VC25 East Suffolk : TM3389 : September 2022 : On limestone gravestone

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that Norfolk county gall recorder Anne Hickley is leading an NNNS walk looking at plant galls at Thompson Common tomorrow (Sunday 25th October 2025). Free, all welcome. For meeting details see norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

Two oak galls, made up of pale green twisted rods emendation from a central base. Darker green Oak leaves are behind them.

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 4d

Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

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Rob Smith @robertsjsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Pleased to catch up with the Snettisham Short-toed Lark yesterday — it spent most of the evening feeding along the strandline before moving to the footpath, where it showed beautifully! Just a shame the light had gone 🙄
#Norfolkbirding

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Lizzie Bruce @lizziebruce.bsky.social · 3d

🔉 Afternoon arrival of Whooper Swans at WWT Welney

They were also in the company of 150 pink footed geese - a rare sight in this part of Norfolk

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 6d

Parent Bugs, Elasmucha grisea.

Boughton Fen, Norfolk.

www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/...

#Hemiptera #UKWildlife

Parent Bug nymphs, Elasmucha grisea, on a Common Alder leaf.

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Ken T @velociraptor500.bsky.social · 7d

A few fungi found at Felbrigg NT at the weekend.

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