Missed the Fritt

Oh well never mind set out for Holt country park thismorning , a butterfly recorder friend told us there were Silver Washed Frittillaries at The country park, but it got very dull and there were no signs there , but went down to the Holt Lowes and saw an amazing Cricket, and a Keeled Skimmer dragonfly which was good.Then pootled back along the coast but the weather got worse unfortunately.

Day out Pigneys Wood

Went to a lovely little nature reserve today, Pigneys wood, been there on one occasion before but couldn't quite remember how to get there so sat nav came to the rescue, and found it, we parked at the Knapton end car park and walked along the Paston Way until we came to steps down into the reserve, it was very nice, sat atop a hill and had a picnic in the sunshine, then wandered around for a couple of hours.it will be lovely in the summer, bit nippy later in the day today, There were notices everywhere saying keep dogs on leads as it was a nature reserve, but unfortunately a few people did ignore it and allowed their dogs to jump in the water and run around, spoilt for others really, and they probably dont even think twice of taking notice of the signs, such a shame!

Getting back in the swing of things

Its been a gorgeous day today, went for my usual walk along the beach and found four pieces of sea glass for my collection, I should really carry on making my necklaces and little jars and stuff but im still resting after a spell in hospital, did do a task at How Hill Ludham on Sunday but took it easy, easing gradually back into my conservation tasks. got to get fitness levels back up again slowly. Saw my first newt in the pond today, and saw a Buzzard flying over my house being mobbed by gulls.

Toad Hole cottage How Hill

Pond life continued

The saga continues, and yey a dragonfly appeared hovered over the pond having a good look, liked what it saw and proceeded to lay eggs, but not in the water it poked about in all the old logs surrounding the pond,so hopefully in a year or however long it takes I should have dragonfly nymphs it was a Southern Hawker very lovely and quite large.The other day after a particularly heavy rainstorm the sun came out and there were dragonflys everywhere 10 20 30 loads ,they loved the warm sun ,so I decided to lift the canopy of cover in my garden and cut a few tree branches down, give a bit more light to the garden and maybe ill get some more in my garden.

The Pond Saga continues

The remaking of a wildlife pond,my poor old pond gave up the fight a few years ago now, so i had to re line it re stock it with plants and let nature do the rest.Bit disappointing at first , just a midge infested pool, but slowly and surely things started to happen , some newts took up residence and started to lay eggs, and i now have baby newtlets, then a damselfly appeared and started laying eggs, a big old diving beetle also took up residence, hope it doesnt eat baby newts though.So slowly but surely nature has come and inhabited my pond, all i need now is a dragonfly and i shall be happy.

Frogs have also been coming and going ,hopefully the midge larvae will be eaten by something.

More little friends

I am really happy, was sitting out in garden looking  out over my little wild area near the Dyke, heard a gentle plop noise, and what should i see swimming over the ditch , a lovely little watervole, thank goodness they are still

about, was so sad after the trauma of finding two dead baby water voles in the garden last year.

Waydukistan

Yes it is a weird title but it is OUR place way out on the North Norfolk Coast, a very beautiful place where we sit and watch and relax , Oyster catchers call and swoop , the wind gently wafts over us and we breathe a sigh ,no need to speak . Our adventure starts on a muddy path carefully navigating rickety wooden bridges, realising we had forgotten our crab lines, but never mind we will remember next time, we pick our way over the slippery mud, grasping on to reach other (obviously we have checked the tide times and we are safe)at last we reach a lovely expanse of swaying sea pinks and grasses and sea campion we find a big old piece of driftwood and settle down to watch and wait, a group of three lugworm diggers amble past us with their buckets and make their way out onto the mud," afternoon lovely day" we greet each other, the knowledge passed between us that we are so very lucky to live here!and yes we wait and watch, and there are Waders and Ducks and loveliness, hence Waydukistan!!! But our adventure is not over, we walk on maybe we should go back the other way, no we ll carry on the big inlet awaits us, we havent been here since the floods so we dont know how the ground has changed, and there it is a deep inlet of mud and luckily it hasnt changed to much, the bottom is firm and the water not too deep, we pick our way to the bottom and scramble up the other side, a little slippery but ok, then up and over the tiny rivulets hopping and jumping and following our little path,so pretty, its good to be back at Waydukistan our place !!!