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James Emerson
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Naturalist living in Norfolk (UK) - particularly interested in birds, fungi, psyllids and shieldbugs (also real ale, Forteana etc) Local patch = Whitlingham C.P. and the wider Norwich area.
Sporadically updated blog: http://jamesbirdsandbeer.blogspot.com/
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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · Jan 16
I've just finished putting together my local patch bird report, covering species seen at Whitlingham & Thorpe Marshes (Norwich) during 2024. It can be downloaded here: drive.google.com/file/d/13pLp... A big thank you to everyone who has reported sightings and allowed photos to be used in the report.
This is the front cover of a local bird report. The backgrouns is a pale purple, and in the centre is a landscape photo showing a flooded path with a bench on the foreground and a bare tree at the back. The text reads "The Birds of Whitlingham & Thorpe 2024" at the top and "Compiled by James Emerson" below the photo.
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britmycolsoc.org.uk
If you are a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student, join our free webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing your work with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Register now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
Cover images from the four BMS journals with the text "Mycology Publishing: Fungal Biology, Fungal Biology Reviews, Fungal Ecology & Field Mycology - making BMS journals work for you." Webinar:11 December 4-5pm GMT
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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mysteryanimals.bsky.social
"The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk", my talk for Dunwich Museum, now online. @DiscoverDunwich.bsky.social @forteantimes.bsky.social#woodwose youtu.be/ntVPfS_xhqI?...
The Woodwoses and Wildmen - November 2025 Talk by Matt Salusbury
YouTube video by Dunwich Museum
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November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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nfbr.bsky.social
Last few days to get your responses in!
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Fungus Recorder Online Survey | Keiron Derek Brown
Do you record fungi? If so, please fill in our short Fungus Recorder Online Survey (closes on 30th November). The survey is open nationwide and invites everyone involved in fungi recording to share t...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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paulgreenwildwire.bsky.social
Found this abherrant Stoecnat at Lowestoft today, some Leucistic Feathers ,Pink legs and bill. #stonechat #ukbirding #suffolkbirds #lowestoftbirds
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social
We have still have a few tickets left for our exclusive members behind-the-scenes visit for a close-up viewing of the world-renowned Fountaine-Neimy Butterfly Collection at the Norwich Castle Museum on Thursday. To book your free tickets👉 buff.ly/AkiOp1S
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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wjrpb.bsky.social
Physarum bivalve. Fir and Pond Wood. A myxomycete. I haven’t seen this before but was struck by its shape and pattern.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
norwichbirder.bsky.social
I'd not visited St Margaret's Church in Old Catton before, so stopped to have a quick look around the churchyard. The gravestones had quite a bit of lichen on but not many invertebrates seen, the exception being this springtail, Entomobrya multifasciata.
A church with a blue sky background and green grassy foreground. The church tower is on the left of the image. The main part of the church is made of flint, but there is a lower part on the right-hand end which appears to have a smooth outer wall. A close-up photo showing a hairy, buff-coloured springtail on a yellowy-orange lichen.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
norwichbirder.bsky.social
A young Beech tree in Catton Park held the set of four common moth leaf mines on this host - Stigmella hemargyrella, Stigmella tityrella, Phyllonorycter maestingella and Phyllonorycter messaniella.
A pale green Beech leaf being held between finger and thumb. A moth leaf mine caused by Stigmella hemargyrella winds its way through the leaf to the midrib and then left along it. A section of green Beech leaf with a leaf mine caused by the moth Stigmella tityrella winding in a gut-like way between two side veins. A yellowy Beech leaf with a tented look as the result of a tubular mine of Phyllonorycter maestingella. A yellow Beech leaf with an oval blotch leaf mine caused by the moth Phyllonorcyter messaniella.
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
norwichbirder.bsky.social
Once the rain had passed I went for a walk around Old Catton today. One of the more interesting finds was this Mistletoe growing on Norway Maple. There is quite a bit of Mistletoe in this part of the city, but mostly on Lime (Tilia).
A bright green clump of Mistletoe growing from a tree with brown leaves hanging off the thin branches. A slightly closer photo showing some of the greeny-yellow Norway Maple leaves still attached to thin branches.
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Swarms of small brown on woodchip at UEA, Norwich.

Last year I found them in the same place and collected samples for DNA analysis. They turned out to be Marasmiellus villosipes (aka Collybiopsis villosipes). UEA is the second Norfolk site.

#Fungi #FungiFriends
A swarm of small brown fungi on (coniferous) woodchip. Marasmiellus villosipes (aka Collybiopsis villosipes). A swarm of small brown fungi on (coniferous) woodchip. Marasmiellus villosipes (aka Collybiopsis villosipes). A swarm of small brown fungi on (coniferous) woodchip. Marasmiellus villosipes (aka Collybiopsis villosipes). A swarm of small brown fungi on (coniferous) woodchip. Marasmiellus villosipes (aka Collybiopsis villosipes).
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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jeremybartlett.bsky.social
Earthy Powdercap, Cystoderma amianthinum.

Found these small (but perfectly formed) specimens this afternoon, growing in mossy grass.

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#Fungi #FungiFriends
Earthy Powdercap, Cystoderma amianthinum. Earthy Powdercap, Cystoderma amianthinum Earthy Powdercap, Cystoderma amianthinum. Picked specimen. Earthy Powdercap, Cystoderma amianthinum. Picked specimen.
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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A little saunter down to Colney church on the edge of Norwich with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social today led to the discovery of a Dicranopalpus larvatus harvestman. The only other site for this species in Norfolk is at Earlham Cemetery in Norwich. Good to finally get another site for them.
A flint built, round tower church with a slate roof in sunlight with blue sky behind and long dark shadows. A harvestman sitting on a whitish stone in bright sunlight. The harvestman has long dark grey legs that are hunched up around it. Its body is white with a dark patch around the dark eyes and a dark patch at the rear of the abdomen. A harvestman sitting on a whitish stone. The harvestman has long dark grey legs that are pulled up around it. Its body is white with a dark patch around the dark eyes and a dark patch at the rear of the abdomen. It has forked pedipalps held up in front of it. Close up of a harvestman sitting on a whitish stone. The harvestman has long dark grey legs that are pulled up around it. Its body is white with a dark patch around the dark eyes and a dark patch at the rear of the abdomen. It has forked pedipalps held up in front of it.
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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kentfieldclub.bsky.social
Some #fungi from the recent Kent Field Club meeting at Kilndown Park, near Scotney in the High Weald National Landscape. Names & credits in alt text. English names from the excellent list on the @britmycolsoc.org.uk website - Umbilicate Hedgehog both descriptive and euphonious. #KentNature
Arrhenia rickenii (Moss Navel), photographed by Mario Tortelli. Gliophorus irrigatus (Honey Waxcap), photographed by Bob Harrop. Hygrocybe reidii (Honey Waxcap), photographed by David Newman. Hydnum umbilicatum (Umbilicate Hedgehog), photographed by Bob Harrop.
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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ajcann.bsky.social
Bloody #Ascomytetes! These are not the #Myxogastria you're looking for :-)

Ruzenia spermoides.

#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #microscopy #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Ruzenia spermoides Ruzenia spermoides spores.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ajcann.bsky.social
Slime mold, Arcyria incarnata.

Arcyria incarnata Cribsheet: www.naturespot.org/sites/defaul...

#slimemoulds #slimemolds #Myxogastria #Amoebozoa #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Arcyria incarnata Arcyria incarnata - empty cups Arcyria incarnata - spores & capillitium
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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tfinch.bsky.social
Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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norfolknats.bsky.social
EVENT REMINDER: Sunday 23rd November 2025 10:30 - we'll be having a look at the wildlife to be found on and around Wymondham Abbey. All welcome. Note that you will need to park nearby and walk to the abbey - further details on norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...
A photo of the south side of Wymondham Abbey, There is a large square tower to the left of the photo and a second tower at the right hand side with a stepped appearance. A modern wooden cladded building is in the foreground.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Aren’t frosted leaves beautiful? I went on a wintry walk down the bridle path this morning and photographed some of the little treasures I found gathered in the grass along the hedgerows. The sky was blue, and the birds were singing; what a glorious (but chilly) day! #nature #art
A nine-image collage of frosted autumn and winter foliage. Each square shows different leaves coated in a delicate layer of white frost, including bramble, maple, nettle, cleavers, and other wild plants. The intricate ice crystals highlight the leaf edges and textures.
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Is it safe to call this Callitula pyrrhogaster or are there any confusion species? I can't find a relevant key but it looks like other photos of this species and it's supposed to be distinctive. It's 1.5mm long and was found by suction in late July in grass at the edge of wet woodland in Norfolk.
Presumed Callitula pyrrhogaster, a tiny wasp with a shiny red gaster and very dark (almost black) green strongly sculptured head and thorax. The legs and antennae are orange. #UKinvert #wasp A view under the microscope of the same presumed Callitula pyrrhogaster, now deceased. #Hymenoptera A side view of the same presumed Callitula pyrrhogaster.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Last weekend of my annual exhibition - 60 original watercolours on show www.jamesmccallum.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Waxcap 38 - Blackening Waxcap (Hygrocybe cinereifolia). Another distinct and named species in this group. It's rather slender with a distinct yellow colour and the key feature is that the gills are grey, even in young specimens. May yet be split further but for now recorded as this.
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Tomoz at Dragon Hall, Nodge. I know that no one's interested but I have to go through the motions. 😂
All books will be going cheap.
Dragon Hall is a medieval merchant's house close to the River Wensum. It's steeped in history and actually has dragons!
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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themarshtit.bsky.social
This will be fun ☺️
drmjwarren.bsky.social Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 6d
People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
Pink-footed geese over north Norfolk coast.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Am I allowed a bit more shameless self-publicity? Available for pre-order! 💚
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The Biological Recording Handbook
Biological recording is the discipline of writing down natural history observations of a correctly identified species, in a specific location, on a specific date, by a named individual. Simple enough,...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜

I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!

📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027

🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe

Please share widely!

#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
June 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM