Greg Bond North Norfolk Nature Ramblings: 24th- 25th April

We moved from Essex to North Norfolk in August 2006 and I have spent a lot of time since then photographing the nature around me, mostly close up and macro stuff. My "patch" is the 10Km square TG2035 though I spend most time between Overstrand, where we live, and Trimingham.

I also bird regularly elsewhere in Norfolk and volunteer at Cley.

I have a photo site at http://overstrandnature.fotopic.net/ but wanted a bit more detail so I thought I'd have a go at a blog detailing what I see locally, as well as on trips abroad

Most of the photos have been taken with Canon digital equipment, or the new Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1. I still however mostly use a camera to record what I see, rather than set out to photograph something.

Monday, 26 April 2010

24th- 25th April

Good numbers of migrants around locally both days with the overcast SWs and drizzle on 25th dropping stuff, particularly Wheatears, Blackcaps and Willow Warblers in all over. Highlights were Osprey, my first Merlin for two years and at least four Ring Ouzels round Hungry Hill.

The garden produced our first Holly Blue of the year and a Water Carpet in the trap last night, while all sorts of insects are being attracted to the flowering Alexanders, including hoverflies, German wasps, Harlequin Ladybirds and mining bees.