Bowthorpe Southern Park
Purple Toothwort (Lathraea clandestina)
To sit among these this morning was quite intoxicating
St Andrew's Business Park
Drak-edgedBee-fly (Bombylius major)
♂︎
♀︎
Gwynne's Mining Bee (Andrena bicolor)
♂︎
Yellow-legged Mining bee (Andrena flavipes)
Apple (Malus domestica)
Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)
Cherry (Prunus Sp)
Field Forget me Not (Myosotis arvensis) ?
Common Stork's-bill (Erodium circutarium)
Mini-miner Sp Probably Common Mini-miner (Andrena minutula) ?
Rough Chervil (Cherphyllum temulum)
Weld (Resedia luteola)
Whitlow Grass (Erophila verna)
Smallburgh Fen
A calcareous mire
Small pools interpsersed with Black-bog Rush (Schoenus nigricans)
Woodland edge
Lichen Sp
Frizzled Pincushion (Plenogemma phyllantha -Ulotta phyllantha)
Larger Mousetail-moss (Isothecium alopecuroides)
Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum)
Dotted Thyme-moss (Rhizomnium puntactum)
Marsh Bryum (Bryun pseudotriquetrum)
Hair Pointed Feather-moss (Cirriphyllum piliferum)
Thick-nerved Apple-moss (Philonotis calcarea)
Strumpshaw Fen
Willow Sp
Cladonia Sp
♀︎s
That moment after copulation
Clark's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella)
♂︎s
♀︎s
Clark's Mining Bee also in the sandpit.
Early Nomad (Nomada leucopthalma)
All images♀︎s
Rex Graham Reserve
The Rex Graham Reserve
on the
Norfolk - Suffolk Border
Known for the only East Anglian site of Military Orchid and only the third site in the country.
Military Orchid (Orchis militaris)
A few more pictures pf the Orchids from 2017
The Rex Graham Reserve in late winter/early spring
Daphne Mazereum plus scent
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia ciratta)
Common Extinguisher-moss (Encalypta vulgaris)
Pleurocarp Moss (Mosses that form freely branched intricate mats) Medley 
Stem Leaf You can just see the twin nerve.
Big Shaggy-moss (Rytidiadelphus triquetrus) Recently renamed as Hylocomidiadelphus triquetrus.
A large bushy moss with irregularly branched red stems.
The leaves tend to point in a variety of directions. You can clearly this species in the medley photo above.
BBS Field Guide
A very neat red stemmed moss. The leaves lie close to the stem.
Red-stemmed feather-moss ((Pleurozium schreberi)
BBS Field Guide
You can see this in the foreground of the medley above.
Another red-stemmed species
Glittering Wood-moss (Hylocomnium splendens)
All of these were seen on the bank when we first went into the reserve.
BBS Field Guide
If you look carefully in the medly photo above you can find another two species we saw there.
Neat Feather-moss (Pseudoscleropodium purum) & Springy Turf-moss (Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus)
Rock Bristle-moss (Seligaria Sp)?
In
fact
Chalk Rock-bristle (Seligeria calcarea)
Yellow Starry Feather-moss (Campylium stellatum)
BBS Field Guide
Peltigera Sp?
Three Hills Reserve
A windrow.
Lines across the field where the tree stumps of past plantations provide a slightly elevated micro habitat.
Redshank seta and capsules. (Ceratadon purpureus)
Common Whitlow Grass (Erophila verna)
Minotaur Beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus)
More often not seen at night so very nice to find this one today.
Mossy Stonecrop (Crassula tillaea) A rare native plant and Breckland speciality.
Great Mullein Rosette? (Verbascum thapsus)?
Male plants with modified leaves forming small terminal 'flowers'
The hairs on the hair cap are particularly conspicuous here
Juniper Haircap (Polytrichum juniperinum)
x10
x20
The nerve extends to the tip of the phyllid and the cells are essentially square.
Olive Beard-moss (Didymodon tophaceus) ?
Having grown this on
it turned out to be
Redshank (Ceratodon purpureus)
Rue-leaved Saxifrage rosette (Saxifraga tridactylites)
Slime Mold Sp? & friend?
Common Shepherd's-cress (Teesdalia naudicaulis)
Common Stork's-bill Rosette (Erodium cicutarium)
Dwarf Thistle Rosette (Cirsium acaule)
and
an unexpected
beautiful
extra one
from
just down the road
at
Rampart's Field
Hoary Fringe-moss (Racomitrium cannescens)
EastWretham
A grand day out for Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire Bryologists at East Wretham
Langmere
A lone broken Scot's Pine (Pinus sylvestris) in the middle of Langemere
This taken on the day.
This one from a week later.
Paraphyses and antheridia
Compare to the diagram in Watson Pg 22
The challenge now is to find archgonia
Physcomitrium eurystomum
We took a small sample and have grown it on.
It took almost a month for these to appear. 
Finger's crossed for when the calyptras come off?
In amongst the Physcomitrium
Silver Birch
Harnbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Lyell's Bristle-moss (Pulvigera lyellii)
Pincushion Sp (Ulota Sp)
Straw Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum stramineum)
Capsules when mature sit above the leaves. Thus these were not quite mature but you can see the sparse hairs and the dark tips.
The white hairs at the base of the seta were also present as well as the dark antheridia.
Fruiting Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia ciratta)
Fen Mere
Fen Mere
Ring Mere
Ringmere
Slime Mold Sp
Golden Thread-moss (Leptobryum pyriforme)
Clustered Feather-moss (Rhynchostegium confertum)
Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) Alley
Oak (Quercus robur)
1 Lecanora chlarotera perhaps?
Turned out to be
Leconora hybocarpa
2?
Became
Rough Speckled Shield (Punctelia Subrudecta)
3?
Became Oakmoss (Evernia prunastri)
from
British Lichen Society
3? or 4? Ramalina farinacea perhaps
Confirmed
5? Fuscidea lightfootii perhaps?
Became
Lecidella elaeochroma
From
The British Lichen Society
Thanks to Rob Yaxley - The Norfolk Lichen Recorder for ids, corrections & comments.
Yoke-moss Sp (Zygodon Sp)
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata)
Spectacular Silver Birch in the evening sunshine
Corvid roost
Hoveton Hall
Common Pincushion (Dicranowiesia ciratta)
Dry rot (Serpula hermantioides)
Frothy Porecrust (Oxyporus latemarginatus)
Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum)
Slime Mold Sp - Badhamia utricularis?
Slime Mold - Trichia decipiens
Slime Mold - Craterium minutum
Slime Mold Sp - Arcyria denudata
Slime Mold Sp - Diderma Sp
Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)
Snowy Disco (Lachnum virgeneum)
Small starburst fungus Volutella ciliata
Yellow Brain (Tremella mesenterica) on Peniophora cinerea on Ivy.
Signs from a tree trunk
Velvet Shank (Flammulina Sp)
Praetumfia obducens
Nitschkia cupularis
Ganoderma Sp?
Maple Wash (Dendrothele acerina)
Common Bird's Nest Fungus (Crucibulum leave)
Red Thread (Laetisaria fuciformis)
Dennisiella babingtonii on Laurel
Cocoon of Azalea Leaf Miner (Caloptilla azaleella)
Mycosphaerella isariphora
Ramularia superflua on Nettle
Scirrhia ramosa
Wheatfen
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Great Reed Mace (Typha latifolia)
Hazel (Corylus avellana) catkins
Giant Spear-moss (Calliergon giganteum)
Much as I wish I had finally found the above species.
This is actually Rough-stalked Feather-moss (Brachythecium rutabulum)
Budd's Farm - Langstone Harbour
Capsule of Bi coloured Bryum (Bryum dichotomum)
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)
More normally seen out at sea this one has spent the last few weeks in Langstone Harbour.
A very confiding individual. Literally flying around the heads of assembled viewers.
There was a breach in the sea wall and this provided a feeding focus for the bird as the water drained through the breach as the tide went out.
Cranwich Pits
Ophegrapha vermicellifera on Prunus Bark
Kneiff's Feather-moss (Leptodictum riparium)
This little guy wandered into the middle of the stack of shots of the Leptodictum riparium above.
Hence that stack was interrupted and unfinished.
Flat-leaved Scalewort (Radula complanata)
Holes in a trunk? Found on at least two trees.
Flat Neckera is the moss on the left side of the trunk.
Antrodia albida
Frizzled Pincushion (Plenogemma phyllantha)
The dark brown apical cluster of gemmae
Flat Neckera (Neckera complanata)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) nest
Wood Bristle-moss (Lewinskya affinis) colony on Willow.
Wood Bristle-moss (Lewinskya affinis) with small white flecks all over it.
This turned out to be a fungus but as yet not certainly identified.
White flecks were also seen White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum)
This from Tony Leech
Knieff's Hook-moss (Drepanacladus aduncus)
Thanks to Mary Ghuliam for the correction,
Plus one strand of Pointed Spear-moss (Calliergonella cuspidata)
White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum)
Wall Screw-moss capsules (Tortula muralis)
The leaves do not run down onto the stem/
Cells are a little longer than wide and not in clear diagonal lines.
Long-beaked Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium rostratum
Gemma has five cells
Park Yoke-moss (Zygodon viridissimus var rupestris)
Didymodon Sp? Male antheridia.
Marsh Bryum (Bryum pseudotriquetrum)
Minute Pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minitissima)
Yellow Feather-moss (Homolothecium lutescens)
Farlington Marshes
Looking across the harbour to Hayling Island
Down to the mouth of the Harbour
Red Breasted Merganser ♂︎ (Mergus serrator)
Brent Geese (Branta bernicla)
Curlew (Numenius arquata) 
Heron (Ardea cineraria)
Mixed
The old bomb crater
Cley
A beautiful still, cold, sunny day.
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Kingfisher ♀︎ (Alcedo atthis)
A small party of Wideon (Anas penelope) to a swim in the sea and then flew along the shoreline, nicely oultined against the sea.
