Cley Marshes 1st May 2013: a continuation of the weekly account of my volunteering duties at the NWT reserve a few years ago. One interesting aspect of visiting a place every week is that you get a real sense of how things change as a season progresses. It is sometimes quite surprising the difference a…
Liz Dack will be well known to many readers of this post. She is an exuberant evangelist for the cause of wildlife, a great supporter of Norfolk Wildlife Trust, excellent photographer, knowledgeable naturalist and jolly good company. I first encountered Liz whilst working for NWT and helping to manage their Wildlife Information Service. Liz was…
Welcome to Lockdown Wildlife Watching 20th-27th April 2020. What a glorious week of sunshine we’ve had. How wonderful to look up into a totally unblemished sky of pale blue from which the sun has beat down relentlessly. Shame about the chilly wind, but ho hum. The streets are full of families out for walks or…
Meet Darren Archer who I’ve known for something like 40 years, first in the capacity of me as a Young Ornithologist Club Leader here in Norwich, and he an enthusiastic YOC member. As time moved on we started birding together all over the county with our annual ‘Big Day’ in May always the highlight. Our…
Martin Kelsey OBE lives and works in Extremadura where he runs a guesthouse and bird tour business. Extremadura is a beautiful, quite unspoiled and wildlife rich area of Spain that I have visited and would dearly love to go back to. Martin writes a wonderfully descriptive blog which paints a vivid picture of the majesty…
Cley Marshes 7 years ago to the day, would find me walking around the NWT reserve on my weekly volunteering duty. I wrote about it for the NWT blog and reproduce it here. In these days of frustrating confinement, it provides a flavour of what we are missing. We can, of course, take comfort from…
I met Allan Archer whilst volunteering in the Visitor Centre at NWT Ranworth Broad. His infectious enthusiasm for all things wildlife was apparent from the start, as was his prodigious knowledge of blues music. We spent several evenings during the summer of 2018 setting up a moth trap so that we could display live creatures…
Welcome to the latest edition of Lockdown Wildlife Watching covering the w/e 19th April 2020, the third in this series whilst we endure the Covid-19 lockdown. Previous blogs can be found here. We go about our business here in a northern suburb of Norwich watched over, for the most part, by an umbrella of translucently…
Welcome to WingSearch2020. This is the first in a series of personal insights into the work of people who have a passion for conservation. Today we focus on Yoav Perlman who spent 4 years living in Norwich whilst working on his PhD at the UEA. I stumbled upon Yoav’s blog whilst setting up my own…
Memories of April 2013, when I used to write a weekly blog post for Norfolk Wildlife Trust highlighting the seasonal wildlife to be found at Cley Marshes. This post is from Easter 2013 – early April – when the reserve was at the mercy of biting easterlies. Other archive articles can be found here. Another…