This year ’ s natural highlights
A few natural highlights from a year that’s been rather miserable in too many ways for me, but peppered with music and photography and nature. You can find the photos I took of these highlights littered around the Sciencebase website, in my Imaging Storm galleries, on my Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, and Facebook.
Thousands of Pink-footed Geese, North Norfolk
Water Rails – RSPB Lakenheath
Frogs (20+) and frogspawn -in our garden wildlife pond
Cranes – RSPB Ouse Fen
Grasshopper Warbler – RSPB Ouse Fen
Otter on the river bank of the River Great Ouse or is it the Great River Ouse, ouse means river so could be the Great Ouse River too…
White Stork – Earith and Smithy Fen
Chiffchaff – bathing in our garden wildlife pond
Puffins, Shags, Razorbills etc –Farne Islands
Kittiwakes, Eider Ducks – Seahouses
American Black, Arctic and Sandwich Terns – Long Nanny, Northumberland
Hooded Crow – Northumberland
Wall butterfly – Seahouses
Lizard Orchid – Devil’s Dyke
Bee Orchid – WARG Field, Cottenham
Black Hairstreak and White Admiral butterflies – Monk’s Wood and Brampton Wood
Purple Emperor, Purple Hairstreak – Gamlingay Wood and Woodwalton Fen
Grizzled Skipper – Woodwalton Marsh
Chinese Water Deer – RSPB Ouse Fen
Adonis Blue and later Chalkhill Blue butterflies, also Green Hairstreak and Dark Green Fritillaries – Devil’s Dyke, Cambs
Marbled White – Edward...
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