30th March 2024 Norfolk lichen recorder Rob Yaxley had organised a few informal meet-ups to survey churchyard lichens, and I managed to atte...

19th March 2024 I seldom get down to Whitlingham in the evenings, but on this occasion I had been invited to a celebration evening in the vi...

9th March 2024 Some nice weather for the March WeBS count and I had a good chat with Ed Mackrill part way round. A brief bit of Chiffchaff s...

2nd March 2024 The NWT reserve at Sweet Briar Marshes is yet to formally open to the public, but has been running events for the past year o...

11th Feb 2024 The second WeBS count of the year. The site was still flooded in multiple places, less so than in January but the section of p...

January 2024 A brief summary of the rest of January. Other than the two Whitlingham visits I didn't have any other dedicated wildlife-wa...

13th January 2024 The path around the Great Broad is still flooded in places, with the water level almost reaching the wooden bridges along ...

10th January 2024 I have now completed the annual bird report for Whitlingham & Thorpe 2023 - you can download it  here A big thank you ...

Last year due to various things, mostly childcare related, I got very behind at keeping this blog uptodate and then the task of catching up ...

Late June 2023 I had to delay June's WeBS count as there had been triathlons using the Great Broad. The wasn't anything particularly...

Mid June 2023 In June the Norfolk Fungus Study Group visited Trinity Broads, specifically an area of woodland near Rollesby. The dry weather...

Mid June 2023 It had been several years since I had visited Carlton Marshes SWT reserve near Lowestoft, indeed a whole cafe and education ce...