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Joined August 2009
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Nice to see the bearded tits pulling their weight and helping out on the reserve 👷🐦 Amber Newton 📸
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Mist-lovers, unite! 💪 Anyone here enjoyed any morning mists lately? This moody scene was captured at Barton Broad 😶‍🌫️ Ella Broom 📸
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Small but seriously tough, the snow bunting is built for extremes 💪 But not even this plucky passerine can survive an Arctic winter 🥶 They swap their white plumage for sandy-coloured beachwear, looking right at home on a winter getaway to our coasts! 👙 Simon Hastings 📸
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A sausage ground beetle! 🪲 It's named for the marks on its wing cases - like strings of little sausages 🌭 Its thin head and mouthparts are perfectly adapted to butcher snails from inside their shells, pulling out the remains for a tasty meal. Escarg-ew! 🐌🗼 Ben Moore 📸
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Sound up! 🔊 This is the sound of 1000+ wigeon taking flight at Ranworth. They're heading out under the protection of darkness to feed on local grazing marshes 🍽️ Brian Shreeves 📸 Matt Wickens 🎧
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Our volunteer, Valerie, has outdone herself with this display at Holme to help visitors decode some classic Norfolk phrases 🗣️ If you’re a ‘furriner’, pop by and see if you recognise any! Have we missed any of your favourite sayings? 🤔👇
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Channeling my inner snowdrop when bracing the outdoors today 🥶 Dainty flowers 🫷 Lean, mean, ice-busting machines 🙂‍↕️ Their leaves have hardened tips that help them push through frozen ground, & antifreeze proteins that stop ice crystals forming & causing damage 💪
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If you look really closely, you might see some turkeytail fungus on this tree… 😅 A colourful fungus, it was once popular as a table decoration; at one time, it was even used to decorate hats! 🎩 Rachael Wayland 📸
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Owl-ception! 🕰️ Something a little more creative for this week's, 'photo of the week' 📸 An incredible capture by Adam Spruce 👏
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How cool is this? 😯 An old bird’s nest repurposed as a wood mouse winter pantry, stuffed with seeds and freshly nommed rosehips 🍽️ Matt Wickens 📸
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Smooth newts are on the move 🦎 Our ecologist, Ben, has already recorded the first sighting of the season, spotting this little critter migrating from nearby woodlands and grasslands back to a breeding pond ⛲
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Stock take day at Hickling! 🔢 Massive thanks to our brilliant volunteers for all their hard work 👏👏👏 From budgets to puppets: our Director of Finance does it all 😌🤟
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A kestrel at Cley! 🪶 Let's hope it didn't leave a little present on our signage... 😳 💩 Thank you to Garry Price for this stunning photo of the week 👏
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Otter-watching in the Brecks 👀 Quiet moments like this are what make time spent in nature so special 🦦✨ James Symonds 📸
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Marsh harrier vs duck 😮😭 This marsh harrier was seen hunting a duck at Holme last week - survival of the fittest! 🦅 Seamus Griffin 📸
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Moths without wings?! 🪽 This Pale Brindled Beauty was spotted on an oak tree at UEA, and like many other active female winter moths, she is completely wingless 😮 Males fly from January to March, searching for the females which have climbed up tree-trunks 🌳 Ben Moore 📸
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Thorpe Marshes last week 😬🧊 Sarah Wilde 📸
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Early birds, literally 🐦💁‍♀️ Common crossbills nest very early in the year, hatching their chicks in February and March to take advantage of the new crop of pine cones. In nature, timing is everything! Thanks to John Wilson for sharing these photos from us, taken at Holme 📸👏
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