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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲

@chrislansdell.bsky.social

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South Norfolk naturalist and vanlifer. Botany, ornithology, entomology and mycology. Punk, post punk & indie. Socialist and right-wing despiser. Right to Roam. Smash facism. http://chrislansdell.blogspot.com/

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · 5h

A couple of great coastal spiders in Holkham Dunes yesterday - the nationally scarce Dune Jumper, Marpissa nivoyi and Sand-bear Spider, Arctosa perita. Many thanks to @jeremybartlett.bsky.social and @vannabartlett.bsky.social for their company on a great day out
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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · 1d

Double earthstar day - Dwarf and Tiny in Holkham/Burnham Overy Dunes 😀

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · 1d

My pleasure! A great fungal day out 😀😀

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · 11d

Marvellous views of the Turkestan Shrike on Dunwich Heath in the window of sunshine we had this morning. Always keeping to the sheltered side of bushes as it was blowing a hoolie!

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · 13d

Some splendid inverts seen in Brittany in the last week included some non-UK species like the bee-fly Villa Hottentotta and the firebug lookalike Melanocoryphus albomaculatus plus Hornet Robberfly and Violet Ground Beetle.

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Sep 8

We have seen Asian Hornet in several places on the Normandy coast today. Ready to invade? Worrying

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Sep 5

I only had to take a photo of my gnarly old face to prove I was old enough. Unsurprisingly I passed!

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ha ha - the Gildencroft Bogey. My favourite local character!

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 27

Barred Warbler at Kessingland, Suffolk today. Good views eventually after much searching and a good soaking! @janeferguson.bsky.social

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hog Fennel, Peucedanum officinale at Southwold, Suffolk today. It is indeed
still there! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 27

Black Shuck woz ere! ‘A strange and terrible wunder’. Blythburgh, Suffolk

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 27

Almost identical to my shots, funny that! Thanks for the wave Brian 👍🏻😀

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 25

Any Suffolk or Norfolk botanists know if Hog Fennel, Peucedanum officinale still persists at Southwold? And if so where?! I can only find mention of it in 1994 ‘in reeds near the harbour’
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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 17

Greenish Warbler, Phylloscopus trochiloides at Ness Point, Lowestoft this afternoon. A eastern wanderer in the most easterly elder and tamarisk bushes in the UK!

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 16

4 Ruddy Shelduck (asleep in the haze!), Wood Sandpiper and 2 Greenshank at Aldeburgh Town Marsh this afternoon

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 16

I finally dragged myself out to Boyton today for the juv Black Stork. Once we’d found the spot it showed characteristically well!

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 15

Very happy indeed to find this clump of Medusa Mushrooms, Agaricus bohusii at Thornham Walks, Suffolk today. Pretty damn rare and a new one for me 🤪😀

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 8

Signs of a 2nd late summer brood of Small Blues at Cranwich Heath in Norfolk yesterday probably indicates they’re having a good year 😀 @norfolknats.bsky.social

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 5

My hasty phone-scoped photo won’t win any prizes 😂 but the Zitting Cisticola at Walberswick showed very nicely early this morning!

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Aug 3

Delighted to find a cluster of Ruby Boletes in Tyrrels Wood in South Norfolk today. One of 5 bolete species seen that have emerged after recent rain @norfolknats.bsky.social

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Jul 31

Great to see so many Swallowtail caterpillars munching away on Milk Parsley at Ranworth, Norfolk yesterday 😍 @norfolknats.bsky.social

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Jul 23

Whoops! Forgot it was Suffolk!

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Jul 22

Some lovely insects at Knettishall Heath on the edge of Breckland today - The Forester, Median Wasp, Common Ectemnius and Rhombic Leatherbug @norfolknats.bsky.social

Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Jul 8

Some nice insects at Catton Park, Norwich yesterday - Brassy (Scabious) Longhorn Moth, Large Scabious Mining Bee and the tachnid fly Nowickia ferox
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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · Jul 4

Unless I am very much mistaken I have just found the nationally rare Broad-banded Digger Wasp, Gorytes laticinctus in my garden in South Norfolk. Well chuffed! @norfolknats.bsky.social

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