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I saw some last week in Spain in my dessert bowl if that counts?

No Glossy Ibis at Oby on an unsurprisingly quiet WeBS count this morning. 100+ Swallows and a single House Martin passing through. Seeing Albion moored up was the highlight
#norfolkbirding

Open Country - Pingos and Pool Frogs - BBC Sounds Martha Kearney visits the Ice Age ponds called pingos which are being brought back to life

Pingos featured on Radio 4 Open Country with @themarshtit.bsky.social this morning 👍 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Cromer Artspace building and access ramp on the right, with a board advertising the Outsiders exhibition to the side. The rest of the photo is of the prom, looking east towards the pier in the background.

Outsiders, a documentary photography project of homelessness in modern Britain, is currently at Cromer Artspace until the 14th Sept. Powerful, moving images and harrowing stories. cromer-artspace.uk/events/event... @marcdavenant.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Needle. Haystack. At least on a wet afternoon.

I was thinking exactly the same thing on my walk in east Norfolk this evening.

Isn’t it just! You don’t even need a snorkel, just a decent pair of polaroids. I’ve seen some large tench and pike in there.

Somerton Boat Dyke and head of River Thurne.
#photography #NorfolkBroads

Perfoliate Pondweed P. perfoliatus (L) and Willow-leaved Pondweed P x salicifolius (R)

Willow-leaved Pondweed

Potamogeton perfoliatus and P x salicifolius, its hybrid with P. lucens, at West Somerton Boat Dyke #NorfolkBroads
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Poster with the following text OUTSiDERS Journeys through homelessness by Marc Davenant "As unflinching and brutal as McCullin, yet equally tender. I hope others feel the latent and righteous anger I do" Cromer ARTSPACE north norfolk 29 August to 14 September 2025 Cromer Artspace on the Prom West Promenade Cromer NR27 9FA https://cromer-artspace.uk ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

If you are in Norfolk and want to see the Outsiders exhibition it opens next in Cromer on 29 August at the Artspace on the Prom.

I last checked it in 2023.

P. lucens is much more widespread than P. perfoliatus in the Broads but there are good populations of the latter in the Wensum and Yare through Norwich. P. x salicifolius occurs at one location in the Broads, where this BSBI coincidence map shows the two parents are found together.

Purple Loosestrife and Orange Balsam colour clash at Thorpe Marshes NR.

I've seen it in a few smaller drains in the Fens and the Broads, but definitely does best in wider and deeper IDB drains. Worth looking for P x fluitans as probably under-recorded. Richard Lansdown found it at Upton Fen in 2022 for the first time and I took this photo of all 3 taxa in 2023.

Thanks for the tip James. I always check Sium for Lixus paraplecticus but yet to find...

"Bastard Cabbage" is something I often think when I come across a yellow crucifer without fruits. In this case it had fruits thankfully, and was indeed Bastard Cabbage, Rapistrum rugosum. RSPB Berney Marshes #wildflowerhour

Brackish grassland at Berney Marshes also has Sea Barley, Strawberry Clover (several punnets worth), saltmarsh rush and slender bird's-foot trefoil. #wildflowerhour

Some good quality brackish grassland, showing the benefit of cattle grazing, behind the floodwall at RSPB Berney Marshes-Breydon Water.
Slender Hare's-ear the most notable species #wildflowerhour

Photobombed by the Great Yarmouth to Norwich train.

The largest single patch of Marsh Mallow - Althaea officinalis - that I know of in the Broads is at RSPB Berney Marshes. Only a few plants still flowering yesterday but did allow me to collect some seed.

Looking forward to seeing this exhibition in Cromer. I was that keen that we went along in August 2024 before realising we were a year too early!

Good flight views of what I've assumed is a female Clouded Yellow f. helice rather than one of the rare species. Along Breydon North wall this morning. Only managed this poor shot of underwings @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social

Flowering Rush (not a rush, as in family Juncaceae) - Butomus umbellatus - on a ditch margin at the Ouse Washes NR, Cambridgeshire.

Marsh Fern and Parsley Water-dropwort at Upton Fen NR, Norfolk.
#photography

Female Long-winged Conehead in the dunes at Horsey #bushcricket #Orthopteta

Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
#photography #monochrome

I didn't manage to see one, but at least 4 Great Green Bush-crickets calling around Stubb Mill, Hickling yesterday. Have been expanding their range through Norfolk in recent years.

It's a distinctive taxon when fruit present however as I'd not seen it before, plus it's scarce around here plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9..., I checked with Dr John Akeroyd the BSBI referee who confirmed it based on photos. One of the many benefits of being a @bsbibotany.bsky.social member 👍

Key ID feature of a shiny, sharp-pointed nutlet protruding well beyond the petals.

Ray's knotgrass - Polygonum oxyspermum subsp. raii - on Gorleston beach last week. Only other VC25 E Suffolk records are from Landguard/Felixstowe although it has been recorded on nearby Great Yarmouth beach (VC27 E Norfolk) in 2024 and 2025.