Space Oddity - Bowie IV

 Our final day in the county was to be spent traversing the East Norfolk Coast, a personal favourite, if
only for the Lighthouses and Windmills alone.

Starting with the latter we have neither time nor memory to name them.

more
AVOCETs

LIGHTHOUSE
rounding the bend and heading south.

more

LAPWINGS
along

this section of

Shingle Beach

and yet another

MICROLIGHT

REDSHANK
and lots of

ALEXANDER
(Warblers just love it)

LIGHT ORANGE UNDERWING LARVAE (Catapillars)

Windmills of Your Mind
(Noel Harrison)

Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel.

Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel.

Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon.

Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon.

Like the circles that you find, in the Windmills of your mind!

SHOVELER

Just call me 'Angle' of the morning, 'Angel'.
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, Baby! - Juice Newton

and there was sure as Hell no chance of leaving the county before a visit to our favoured Tea Room, a veritable Museum and Library within - "we forgot, to take any 'snaps' inside"!

and THANKS for a GREAT weekend Dave!

Space Oddity III

 The final 3 parts of our epic journey come in no particular chronological or geographical order as among all the excitement of the wonders to be seen we have once again Lost the Plot! Tidying up what was left of the happenings along the north coast tomorrow we hope to bring you a little more of what we consider a better representation of East Anglia to the East as a finale.

BAR-TAILED GODWIT

feeding
and

flying.

MARSH HARRIER

also on the wing.

A short cameo of

REDSHANK
displaying

feeding

across both salt and fresh water.

sticking with the 'reds'
RED KITE

SHELDUCK

in flight

and

grounded.

SHOVELER feeding

as was

this

RUFF
and as we rounded the north east corner of the county it was yet again Dave who sorted the single

BEWICK's SWAN

from the herd of other waterfowl - what a day!!

Space Oddity II - Bowie

 Please don't ask the name of our continuing adventure as forgotten even before arrival, but fact was just off the edge of the ancient

BEECH FOREST
had been residing, for a few weeks now, a scarce

LITTLE BUNTING
had been residing for a number of days, but not now. However, our efforts were to see some reword as it had been replced by a

RING OUZEL
a member of the Thrush family which is more at home at altitude, mountainsides etc, and usually only seen on the flatlands during migration - a nice stroke of luck with a 'back-up cast' being none to shabby as well with the local

STEAM TRAIN
making a

Noisy Pass
and our first

Forget-me-Not
of the year along with distant veiws of a typical

Suffolk Village with attendant Windmillwith

ALEXANDRA
underfoot

and the occassional flitting of a

LIGHT ORANGE UNDERWING MOTH
(daytime flier)

but time for a move, through the self-same forest and onward to the

NORTH NORFOLK COAST
and its plethora of bird-life and met in the first instance

by a pair of noisy

GREYLAG GEESE
before being called back by the Warden to view a

GARGANEY

we had

overlooked.
Among the more expected were

LITTLE EGRET

AVOCET
displaying,

strolling,

feeding and in company with a single

RUFF

PERRIWINKLE

a most elegant

RED KITE

Identification Aid

MICROLIGHT

CURLEW

feeding.

Space Oddity I - Bowie

 An 05:00 start, 500 miles round trip and close to 300 quids worth of hotels with the main thrust being a weekend in both Suffolk and Norfolk in search of about as small a creature that lives on Planet Earth.

but when serching for the larva the hungry must be fed!

Reaching Suffolk our first find was his
ROOK

as sat along the roadside enjoying a
Full English Breakfast with

Dave Foot.

Soon after it was down to the serious stuff with Dave briefing me as to what to look for among the

LARCH TREEs

as his Dave-ship soon found one, while I continued looking for the trees,
there were other things of interest not least the

BLOOMs

and
CONE'S
of the same trees along with

7-SPOTTED LADYBIRD

a single
HOLLY BLUE BUTTERFLY

KIDNEY-SPOT LADYBIRD
and the far more numerous and similar

PINE LADYBIRD
while a new one on me was

OREGON GRAPE
Our thirst slaked we moved on to

where the first encounter was with a herd of

LONG-HORN GOATs
even more interesting than our Rare Breads back home, and as the sign suggests

STONE CURLEW
which were both camera shy unless you had one of these

Solar Powered Cameras
parked right next to them with our

Best Efforts being this and

this augmented by a couple of

professionals so you can see more clearly what we are on about!
While having visited the Prehistoric Flint Mines that make up

before, a second look whould have been welcome had they not been closed,

but plenty more to

keep us occupied at

if only with the

YELLOW HAMMERS

buzzing around the feeding stations and a lone

LONGHORN

DON'T TELL ME THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN

ENTMOOT!
Our first day ended in fine fashion, stepping from the pub after a fine dinner straight into the arms of the

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Cydia Millenniana

sent by my sparing partner Dave via Lepiforum.

To be continued......