Lakenheath - Great Crested Grebe Family

What a delight on our RPS/CCC Nature Group outing to watch a Great Crested Grebe pair with their three exotically striped youngsters at close range for an hour. At first, we thought there were only two young but a third ones emerged from the adult's feathers when it decided to have a vigorous shake.

RPS Nature Group at Titchwell

Eleven members of the Nature Group visited Titchwell yesterday on a beautiful day - sunny but with a cooling breeze. Birds shown - flying Sanderlings, Oystercatchers, Juvenile Herring Gull, Blackheaded Gull, Avocet, Marsh Harrier, Black-tailed Godwit, Lapwing,  and Knot.

RPS Visit to Strumpshaw Fen

 The weather for our Nature Group visit to Strumpshaw was hot and sunny - should have been just right for Swallowtails but, alas, this year they are in short supply as for other butterfly species. A few of us did photograph one that stayed for a few moments on a thistle in the Meadow. Dragonflies, on the other hand, were plentiful with Four-spotted Chasers (1-3)  and Scarce Chasers (4-6) and Norfolk Hawkers (7,8) the principal performers. I was trying different 'artistic approaches so quite a variety of backgrounds etc!

All the Fun of the Fair at Hunstanton

One of our subjects for the RPS walk around Hunstanton was 'A Long Way from Summer' and certainly the Fun Fair in its winter state emplifies this well.

  

Epping Forest RPS Nature Group Outing 1. Fungi

Photos of the most-photographed fungi on our RPS Nature group trip to Epping forest today. These are my suggestions for species but will update if get different IDs from experts

1. Mycena inclinata 2. Mycena haematopus
3. Mycena inclinata 4.Mycena radicata
5. Lycoperdon pyriforme
6 and 7 Helvella crispa
8 and 9 Xylaria hypoxylon
10 and 11 Mycena inclinata