Aldborough Church
Haematomma ochroleucum perhaps. Whitish or grey white thallus with a distinctive 'fringed' white prothallus.
Confirmed as Haematomma ochroleucum var porphyria
Lecanora campestris perhaps.
I suspect this is not Lecanora campestris, the thallus of that species is
usually more grey-green with a white fimbriate margin, and the apothecia more even-sized.
A candidate might be Lecanora horiza, but would need microscopy to confirm.
Placopyrenium (Verrucaria) fuscellum
Verrucaria macrostoma f macrostoma
The yellow one is Caloplaca flavescens. A crustose lichen with lobed margins and a whitish centre. Orange apothecia with paler margins.
Confirmed
Caloplaca flavescens, a few apothecia of Lecanora crenulata and
the main species possibly Lecidella stigmatea, but would need microscopy to confirm.
Two species here, my best guess would be Rhizocarpon reductum and Aspicilia calcarea,
but would need chemical test confirmation
Opegrapha calcarea
Lecanora, probably polytropa
Caloplaca flavescens?
Lichen Sp?
With grateful thanks to the Norfolk Lichen Recorder - Rob Yaxley for ids and comments
Cley
Delightful flock of Snow Buntings in the wind and sunshine today.
Variously sunning themselves, preening and gorging on the seeds in the shingle.
A good wing stretch.
You can just about see the feathered tarsi in this image.
Plus the body feathers that can also cover the naked parts of the bird's legs.
These help the bird survive the cold (below -30°C at times) in its Northern breeding grounds.
Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
The Northern most breeder of any land-based bird.
They breed on exposed bits of Tundra that stick above the surrounding ice.
These islands are called 'nunataks'
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)
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.
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
Broadland Country Park
Deep in the woodland
Fallow Deer (Dama dama)
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.
Alderfen Broad
Glaucous Crystalwort (Riccia glauca)
Also
Cylindric Beard-moss (Didymodon insulanus) ? & Common Pottia (Tortula truncata)
Blunt-leaved Bog-moss (Sphagnum palustre)
A Glacial remnant - Russow's Bog-moss (Sphagnum russowii)
This little patch has been there for 10,00 years. - Remarkable
Well that was the hope from the grid ref but upon the examination of a stem leaf & branch leaf of a specimen from this little patch was actually Sphagnum subnitens
Perhaps not all of it but certainly the sample that was taken.
Rigid Bog-moss (Sphagnum teres)
The cone at the centre of the capitulum is very pronounced and indicative of the species.
In the arable fields around Alderfen a fair number of Sphaerocarpos Sp were found.
This one has been kept in a tupperware box with a lot of other mosses for the last month in a cold conservatory.
There seems to one ripe capsule.
Holkham
Pink-footed Geese (Anser brachrhynchus)
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
Imm Female from the Isle of Wight programme.
White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons)
Glandford
Curtesy of Cley Spy
Sitting out in the sunshine.
A gorgeous Long-eared Owl
(Asio otus)
Blakeney
Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Supplementary lenses used on 200mm f4 - 6T & Raynox 250
A small fungus found in the leaf axils of Soft-tufted Beard-moss (Didymodon vinealis)?
Leaves adpressed to the stem when dry.
Taken with a x10 microscope objective
Looking at the Bryophilous Fungi Website
This is likely to be
Bryostroma trichostomi
George R L Greiff replied via Twitter
Almost certainly :) There are couple of other Bryostroma species that
can grow on Didymodon so it's worth checking spores.
95% of the time for me it is B. trichostomi.
I don't think I'm up to this challenge.
Any oneelse - Stuart?
This was later confirmed by George and was a first for Norfolk
Many thanks to Tony Moverley for the images that he managed to achieve after three goes at them.