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e may be able to give you some leads or advice. Failing that a source of endless information is Tony Irwin who is listed - what he doesnt know about invertebrates isn’t worth knowing

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If you look at the list of county recorders listed for every taxa on the nnns you should see a spider recorder listed norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/recording...

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Andrew I was privileged to be able to chair the nnns through its 150th year and was heading to do so again for the next few years before the tumour that hit my life a few weeks ago. The availability of the information in the bird reports online is something I was keen on and introduced some tome ago

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

after I had done time of the research for my latest book ‘Norfolks Whales and Whaling’ wwhich should have been delivered to you if you’re a NNNS member.

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Andrew I would encourage you to join the NNNS (norfolk and norwich naturalists’ Society. The benefits are great and it’s not that expensive - you’ll get a hard copy of the bird and mammal report each year as well as other usefull information norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You can always use the bird and mammal reports. They are frely available via the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/publicati...

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Bird and Mammal Report |

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I think you’re right to visit perhaps regularly . It may turn up a surprise or two for you well beyond a domestic chicken!

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Do I remember a River Warbler at this site some time ago? Perhaps in the 1980’s

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Whispering reeds in golden light … the beautiful marshes …. i know exactly that feeling you’re talking about Helen x

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

No worries. There are other species guides on there too including Grasshoppers, Psyllids, Harvestmen, Orchids , mammals, fish, woodlice snd Shieldbugs which are all worth a look too. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/publicati...

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Species Guides |

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Keep checking them all Mark. We are destined to get a dropwing or other rarity at some point check the end of the NNNS species guide for contenders norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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I do hope the beer slugger has considered the payback his ‘government’ would need to give to legal immigrants. I and my Australian wife have paid out just over £19,000 in visa fees over the last five years to obtain right to remain status. If rescinded I for one will be beating a path to the courts!

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I got eyeballed at Bempton this week.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Some great close waders on the Yorkshire Birding Tour last week ... including this Greenshank

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thanks Gary - just travelling back from a week leading in Yorkshire will take a look tomorrow.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Cesarean … love it! - I think we need to put that one in the ‘too hard basket’ I shall record it as ‘cetacean species’ as there are several it could be. Many thanks for taking the trouble to record.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Rob/Gary - as you would guess it’s a tall ask to identify any cetacean from such distant photos. However I can tell you what it isn’t. It’s not a Harbour Porpoise or a Bottlenose Dolphin … it shows some features of Common Dolphin but any impression of size?

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Water Voles are just adorable aren't they?

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

There's a good reason why the god of desire and beauty, loaned his name to the Adonis Blue Butterfly. We went South on tour today to see these beautiful airborne waifs amid the short turf of south facing chalk. Extraordinary creatures.

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Ok I get it … but now I can’t see anything but.

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Almost as good as the comment from the guy next to me when a beer bottle floated past the ferry we were on ‘look … a bottle no dolphin’

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In a spot of 'extreme botanising' from a moving vehicle this summer we came across Thistle Broomrape at the side of the A1

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Up to 2000 the most common dolphin here in Norfolk was White beaked (a cold water species) now it’s Common Dolphin (a temperate water species)

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is also exemplified by the increasing number of warm water cetacean species being seen in uk waters and the decreasing number of cold water species.

Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Distribution map for The Netherlands makes interesting reading.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Bat surveying last night. A passer by called me 'Batman'. I asked if he was a joker ... went right over his head ... just like the bats.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Not the best photo in the world but the Black crowned Night Heron was so hidden yesterday evening it might as well have been on the moon!

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Bugger … so it is. Thanks Mark.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

One or two bit's and pieces from tours over the last week or so. Including Green Hairstreak, Temminck's Stint, Wood Sandpiper, Garganey and Broad bodied Chaser.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The sky was full of larks last week. Short tailed songsters. Wood Larks.

tonyeadson.bsky.social @tonyeadson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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The first few S M Orchids starting to show close to home ssp schoenophila

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

You don't often get a good view of the underside of a Wall butterfly. Walking along the coastal path last week there were more walls in flight than I've seen in the past few years in total. One landed and obliged by settling and lifting her skirts.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This Little Egret was brimming with breeding hormones. The lores were 'purple' with anticipation.

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Carl Chapman @wildnorfolk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Cley hit the jackpot with Temminck's Stints and Wood Sands this week but the most confiding wader was without doubt this chunky, subtly beautiful Greenshank.