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Some lovely juxtapositions to be had between the old fishing huts and winches on the beach compared with the new gaily painted beach huts higher up. The thatched flint church looks out over it all standing tall and strong as the rest decays

Some lovely juxtapositions to be had between the old fishing huts and winches on the beach compared with the new gaily painted beach huts higher up. The thatched flint church looks out over it all standing tall and strong as the rest decays

A lovely evening walk along Pakefield cliffs. The sun made everything look crisp and clear. The wind made we want my hat and gloves

At last the frogs are back and doing what frogs do

Cranefly caught in spiders web

Turnstone on Gorlestone pier 

A lovely walk along the side of Breydon Water this morning. Parked in  the superstore car park and walked under the new bridge towards the hide. Plenty to see with at least 20 little egret, flocks of black tailed godwit, avocet, dunlin, wigeon, shelduck, redshank, curlew, lapwing and golden plover. A coiuple of sparrowhawks were floating around, not really hunting, but enough to disturb the smaller waders. Pleased to see a kingfisher darting through. 

Beautiful sunny day. Woodland floor carpeted with sweet chestnuts, looking soft and inviting, until you stand on them. Fly agaric positively glowing in the sunshine.

A couple of parasol mushrooms

female and young male Mallard sycnchonised feeding

Man has the greatest influence on the environment, sometimes for the better or through necessity, but just dumping things because you no longer need them; irresponsible, damaging and wasteful. Whilst this area was no beauty spot with a chalk stream, it was a series of ditches and dykes that supported amphibians and small fish as well as numerous invertebrates. 

 This is the beauty part of my 4 mile dog walk this morning. Green fields, signs of autumn, pretty flowers. Saw plenty signs of nature flourishing: Kingfisher flew by, Jay collecting acorns,  spiders in their webs. If you look at the other blog from today, you will see the Industry and folly of man in the same area

 Ivy Bee, Colletes hederae , a relative newcomer to our native fauna, first described in 1993 and only in Britain since 2001 or so. It is spreading north. The are a solitary bee, each female builds it’s own cell for it’s young, but they nest in large colonies.. 

I assume these are the same species of cranefly, the one with the crumpled wings may have just come out of it’s cocoon.

Very large wasp mimic,  Sericomyia silentis, bog hoverfly. There were up to eight of these beauties feeding on ivy nectar