Carl Chapman

Carl Chapman

@wildnorfolk.bsky.social

Norfolk’s sea mammal recorder. Tutor, tour guide, author and charity worker. Butterflies, dragons, birds, cetaceans, and photography are my way of life.

326 Followers 264 Following 120 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 months ago

Oh come on Rutger; you can’t be surprised regarding removal of the comment against the background of what has gone off between the BBC and Trump in litigation over the past few weeks. The removal is NOT about capitulation but about a public body protecting itself and its financing from further harm

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3 months ago

At least he wont be getting DVT

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3 months ago

Wasn’t the idea to have the aircraft over land rather than the sea for safety reasons as opposed to the quickest route?

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3 months ago

e may be able to give you some leads or advice. Failing that a source of endless information is Tony Irwin who is listed - what he doesnt know about invertebrates isn’t worth knowing

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3 months ago

If you look at the list of county recorders listed for every taxa on the nnns you should see a spider recorder listed norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/recording...

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3 months ago

Andrew I was privileged to be able to chair the nnns through its 150th year and was heading to do so again for the next few years before the tumour that hit my life a few weeks ago. The availability of the information in the bird reports online is something I was keen on and introduced some tome ago

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3 months ago

after I had done time of the research for my latest book ‘Norfolks Whales and Whaling’ wwhich should have been delivered to you if you’re a NNNS member.

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3 months ago

That’s fantastic Andrew

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3 months ago
| Founded 1869 Registered Charity No. 291604

Andrew I would encourage you to join the NNNS (norfolk and norwich naturalists’ Society. The benefits are great and it’s not that expensive - you’ll get a hard copy of the bird and mammal report each year as well as other usefull information norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/

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3 months ago
Bird and Mammal Report |

You can always use the bird and mammal reports. They are frely available via the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/publicati...

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3 months ago

I think you’re right to visit perhaps regularly . It may turn up a surprise or two for you well beyond a domestic chicken!

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3 months ago

Do I remember a River Warbler at this site some time ago? Perhaps in the 1980’s

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3 months ago

Whispering reeds in golden light … the beautiful marshes …. i know exactly that feeling you’re talking about Helen x

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5 months ago
Species Guides |

No worries. There are other species guides on there too including Grasshoppers, Psyllids, Harvestmen, Orchids , mammals, fish, woodlice snd Shieldbugs which are all worth a look too. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/publicati...

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5 months ago

Keep checking them all Mark. We are destined to get a dropwing or other rarity at some point check the end of the NNNS species guide for contenders norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

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5 months ago

I do hope the beer slugger has considered the payback his ‘government’ would need to give to legal immigrants. I and my Australian wife have paid out just over £19,000 in visa fees over the last five years to obtain right to remain status. If rescinded I for one will be beating a path to the courts!

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5 months ago
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I got eyeballed at Bempton this week.

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5 months ago
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Some great close waders on the Yorkshire Birding Tour last week ... including this Greenshank

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6 months ago

Thanks Gary - just travelling back from a week leading in Yorkshire will take a look tomorrow.

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6 months ago

Cesarean … love it! - I think we need to put that one in the ‘too hard basket’ I shall record it as ‘cetacean species’ as there are several it could be. Many thanks for taking the trouble to record.

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6 months ago

Rob/Gary - as you would guess it’s a tall ask to identify any cetacean from such distant photos. However I can tell you what it isn’t. It’s not a Harbour Porpoise or a Bottlenose Dolphin … it shows some features of Common Dolphin but any impression of size?

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6 months ago

Rob/Gary - as you would guess it’s a tall ask to identify any cetacean from such distant photos. However I can tell you what it isn’t. It’s not a Harbour Porpoise or a Bottlenose Dolphin … it shows some features of Common Dolphin but any impression of size?

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6 months ago
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Water Voles are just adorable aren't they?

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6 months ago
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There's a good reason why the god of desire and beauty, loaned his name to the Adonis Blue Butterfly. We went South on tour today to see these beautiful airborne waifs amid the short turf of south facing chalk. Extraordinary creatures.

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6 months ago

Nowp … as true as it gets!

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6 months ago

Ok I get it … but now I can’t see anything but.

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6 months ago
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Birds World | 2023 11 19 Pacific Gull Venus Bay Victoria Australia B81A9788 Wildcatch Photography

A proper brute wildcatchphotography.zenfolio.com/p984574505/h...

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6 months ago

Almost as good as the comment from the guy next to me when a beer bottle floated past the ferry we were on ‘look … a bottle no dolphin’

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6 months ago
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In a spot of 'extreme botanising' from a moving vehicle this summer we came across Thistle Broomrape at the side of the A1

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8 months ago

Up to 2000 the most common dolphin here in Norfolk was White beaked (a cold water species) now it’s Common Dolphin (a temperate water species)

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