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Jeremy Halls
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Ecologist. Mainly found in wetlands or on the coast. Norfolk, UK
I saw some last week in Spain in my dessert bowl if that counts?
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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
September 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Needle. Haystack. At least on a wet afternoon.
August 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I was thinking exactly the same thing on my walk in east Norfolk this evening.
August 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Somerton Boat Dyke and head of River Thurne.
#photography #NorfolkBroads
August 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Potamogeton perfoliatus and P x salicifolius, its hybrid with P. lucens, at West Somerton Boat Dyke #NorfolkBroads
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
August 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I last checked it in 2023.
August 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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.
August 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Purple Loosestrife and Orange Balsam colour clash at Thorpe Marshes NR.
August 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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.
August 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"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
August 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Brackish grassland at Berney Marshes also has Sea Barley, Strawberry Clover (several punnets worth), saltmarsh rush and slender bird's-foot trefoil. #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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
August 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Photobombed by the Great Yarmouth to Norwich train.
August 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
August 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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
August 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Flowering Rush (not a rush, as in family Juncaceae) - Butomus umbellatus - on a ditch margin at the Ouse Washes NR, Cambridgeshire.
August 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Marsh Fern and Parsley Water-dropwort at Upton Fen NR, Norfolk.
#photography
August 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Female Long-winged Conehead in the dunes at Horsey #bushcricket #Orthopteta
August 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
#photography #monochrome
August 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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.
August 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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.
August 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
That will be the same plant that I took a photo of last weekend!
July 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It is a wonderful site and with relatively good access. Supports all 7 of the Broads SAC Annex I habitat features, one of only two of the 28 component SSSIs to do so.
Adjoining grazing marsh has Potamogeton compressus, P x fluitans and Sium.
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM