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Caroline Gill's Wildlife Record: Suffolk Horizons (and the World beyond her Window)

Monday, 27 February 2017

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly - Seasonal First

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26 Feb 2017, home patch Not the best photo, I'm afraid, (taken behind double glazing), but our first sighting in 2017 of a Small To...
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Monday, 20 February 2017

Alton Water - a multi-functional reservoir

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My small Lumix camera has not coped well with the low light, but it was good to see several pairs of Great Crested Grebes on the reservoi...
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Saturday, 18 February 2017

Spring sunshine, flowers and insects at NT Ickworth (still too early for lambs...)

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The Rotunda We visited NT Ickworth for the first time this season, hoping to see some early colour in the spring sunshine. The Aconi...
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Friday, 17 February 2017

My First Moth Sighting of 2017

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We have noticed a few more moths about this week. The (as yet unidentified) one in the photographs spent a day on our window, but I am gu...
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Monday, 13 February 2017

First Treecreeper Sighting of 2017

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Treecreeper (I took this photo some time ago) I was thrilled to catch a glimpse of the little Treecreeper in the photo below on...
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Saturday, 11 February 2017

Another Woodpecker...

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Photo: 10 Feb 2017 We are having a wonderful spell of Woodpecker visitations. This one, you will notice, does not bear a prominent red ...
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Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Green Woodpecker

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After the excitement of yesterday's visitor, look who showed up today!  Do you think it was after ants, grubs or other insects?...
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Monday, 6 February 2017

Great Spotted Woodpecker

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Male - on account of red nape of neck Look who showed up after the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch! The woodpeckers have started drumming....
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Saturday, 28 January 2017

RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2017

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The photo above shows one of the feisty Robins, and one of the first birds to clock-in to the count. At this point I would like t...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Gold(finches) for a Grey Day

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All these photos were taken in poor conditions through double glazing - sorry!  What a grey day.  The car thermomet...
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Saturday, 21 January 2017

Shingle Street - What No Owls?

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There are times when you learn as much about wildlife by failing to see something (and sadly the crab above will never again see out of t...
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Welcome to Caroline's blogs of literary life and the natural world. Caroline lives in Suffolk, UK. 'Driftwood by Starlight', her first full poetry collection was published in June 2021 by The Seventh Quarry Press. Feel free to use the 'comments' facility. All photos © Caroline Gill 2009-2025 (unless otherwise stated).
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