Joolz
@joolzm.bsky.social
BTO S permit bird ringer.
Birds, plants, long walks, short bike rides, big landscapes, small churches, occasional beer, ditto cake. East-Angle. All photos always unfiltered although may be cropped.
Birds, plants, long walks, short bike rides, big landscapes, small churches, occasional beer, ditto cake. East-Angle. All photos always unfiltered although may be cropped.
Delighted to catch up with the lesser grey shrike at Winterton this morning. Followed by a fun session at Breydon water (north side) picking out the curlew sandpipers amongst the throng of waders on the rising tide. Happy to also see 2 spoonbill & 3 peregrine over together.
September 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Delighted to catch up with the lesser grey shrike at Winterton this morning. Followed by a fun session at Breydon water (north side) picking out the curlew sandpipers amongst the throng of waders on the rising tide. Happy to also see 2 spoonbill & 3 peregrine over together.
Having gazed on the north face of this church for most of my life, last stepping inside over 35 years ago, I thought it was time to revisit the inside as part of the Heritage Open Day. It's just as I remembered, vast and Victorianized. Some interesting maps on the board and a rare brass survivor
September 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Having gazed on the north face of this church for most of my life, last stepping inside over 35 years ago, I thought it was time to revisit the inside as part of the Heritage Open Day. It's just as I remembered, vast and Victorianized. Some interesting maps on the board and a rare brass survivor
Post a female character you love
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Post a female character you love
It's almost impossible to pick a #FavouritePlant for #WildflowerHour but I've plumped for this photo of Sea Holly at sunset on Kessingland beach in the second week of August. Also a cherished memory from a well-loved place
September 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's almost impossible to pick a #FavouritePlant for #WildflowerHour but I've plumped for this photo of Sea Holly at sunset on Kessingland beach in the second week of August. Also a cherished memory from a well-loved place
Didn't get the memo about #SeedHeads so here's some pavement Shaggy Soldier and some climbing coastal Hops from Lowestoft town today. The scent from a crushed hop was incredible- gentle citrus & floral notes sent us scurrying to our local brewery pub for an honest real ale! Cheers 🍻 #WildflowerHour
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Didn't get the memo about #SeedHeads so here's some pavement Shaggy Soldier and some climbing coastal Hops from Lowestoft town today. The scent from a crushed hop was incredible- gentle citrus & floral notes sent us scurrying to our local brewery pub for an honest real ale! Cheers 🍻 #WildflowerHour
Birding from my bed this morning while recovering from a nasty virus. So far there has been pied flycatcher & willow warbler seen in the birch trees. Sparrowhawk and jay in the limes
August 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Birding from my bed this morning while recovering from a nasty virus. So far there has been pied flycatcher & willow warbler seen in the birch trees. Sparrowhawk and jay in the limes
Used a grey day to take the girls to the newly opened keep at Norwich Castle. Views from the battlements were fantastic & sure to be better on a bright day. Looking SW to the cathedral in the first pic and down the alley to the historic market place in the second. Inside the keep in the third
August 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Used a grey day to take the girls to the newly opened keep at Norwich Castle. Views from the battlements were fantastic & sure to be better on a bright day. Looking SW to the cathedral in the first pic and down the alley to the historic market place in the second. Inside the keep in the third
Single use bird bags for bird ringing for the highest welfare standards. Each turned inside out & shaken to remove debris before being soaked, washed, dried, turned back the right way and checked for robustness and strings knotted.
Any volunteers for this twice weekly job? Or is it just me...
Any volunteers for this twice weekly job? Or is it just me...
August 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Single use bird bags for bird ringing for the highest welfare standards. Each turned inside out & shaken to remove debris before being soaked, washed, dried, turned back the right way and checked for robustness and strings knotted.
Any volunteers for this twice weekly job? Or is it just me...
Any volunteers for this twice weekly job? Or is it just me...
Took a week off to spend time with my girls. Endless beach visits, solo ringing, bit of market town shopping, the odd pint and loads of lovely food. Also got to sneak in a life tick with the zitting cisticola before splashing about in the sea at Walberswick. Bliss 🤍
August 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Took a week off to spend time with my girls. Endless beach visits, solo ringing, bit of market town shopping, the odd pint and loads of lovely food. Also got to sneak in a life tick with the zitting cisticola before splashing about in the sea at Walberswick. Bliss 🤍
Delighted to find this elephant hawkmoth caterpillar and two more devouring various willowherbs around the garden yesterday. Seems to prefer the smaller varieties, I haven't found a single one on our greater willowherb although that seems to be floundering without flowers this year
July 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Delighted to find this elephant hawkmoth caterpillar and two more devouring various willowherbs around the garden yesterday. Seems to prefer the smaller varieties, I haven't found a single one on our greater willowherb although that seems to be floundering without flowers this year
Despite the blueness of this week's harebell challenge, it was yellow that commanded my attention.
A cluster of brazenly bright tansy beside the marsh track at Minsmere & a beautiful bunch of butter and eggs (common toadflax) on waste ground beside the harbour mouth at Lowestoft #WildflowerHour
A cluster of brazenly bright tansy beside the marsh track at Minsmere & a beautiful bunch of butter and eggs (common toadflax) on waste ground beside the harbour mouth at Lowestoft #WildflowerHour
July 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Despite the blueness of this week's harebell challenge, it was yellow that commanded my attention.
A cluster of brazenly bright tansy beside the marsh track at Minsmere & a beautiful bunch of butter and eggs (common toadflax) on waste ground beside the harbour mouth at Lowestoft #WildflowerHour
A cluster of brazenly bright tansy beside the marsh track at Minsmere & a beautiful bunch of butter and eggs (common toadflax) on waste ground beside the harbour mouth at Lowestoft #WildflowerHour
And they have fledged.
First photo was last Saturday morning, where their wings were slightly longer than their tail feathers so c35 days old. Second photo was the nest site this afternoon. Maybe they are one of the birds in the final photo, contemplating life as a new and independent Kittiwake...
First photo was last Saturday morning, where their wings were slightly longer than their tail feathers so c35 days old. Second photo was the nest site this afternoon. Maybe they are one of the birds in the final photo, contemplating life as a new and independent Kittiwake...
July 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
And they have fledged.
First photo was last Saturday morning, where their wings were slightly longer than their tail feathers so c35 days old. Second photo was the nest site this afternoon. Maybe they are one of the birds in the final photo, contemplating life as a new and independent Kittiwake...
First photo was last Saturday morning, where their wings were slightly longer than their tail feathers so c35 days old. Second photo was the nest site this afternoon. Maybe they are one of the birds in the final photo, contemplating life as a new and independent Kittiwake...
You have to admire their determination though. Here's two well grown Kittiwake chicks on an old ventilation shaft behind a redundant café as well as four well grown chicks (from two broods) on a lamppost by the bascule bridge. Kittiwake skills!
July 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
You have to admire their determination though. Here's two well grown Kittiwake chicks on an old ventilation shaft behind a redundant café as well as four well grown chicks (from two broods) on a lamppost by the bascule bridge. Kittiwake skills!
Lots of wing flapping and ready-to-fledge Kittiwakes in Lowestoft town centre this morning. Around 70 have already fledged within the last week with 11 known to have perished. Sadly it was never going to end well if you nest behind netting & it's a risk on spikes despite the nest being well secured
July 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Lots of wing flapping and ready-to-fledge Kittiwakes in Lowestoft town centre this morning. Around 70 have already fledged within the last week with 11 known to have perished. Sadly it was never going to end well if you nest behind netting & it's a risk on spikes despite the nest being well secured
A visit to St Helens, Ranworth was a feast for the eyes with this rare surviving rood screen. Created in the C15th and restored in the 19th. Usually the focus is on the figures and meanings therein. But for me, the pleasure was in the smaller details- painted by an unknown hand over 500 years ago
July 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A visit to St Helens, Ranworth was a feast for the eyes with this rare surviving rood screen. Created in the C15th and restored in the 19th. Usually the focus is on the figures and meanings therein. But for me, the pleasure was in the smaller details- painted by an unknown hand over 500 years ago
A cinnabar moth on marsh thistle, a large skipper on purple loosestrife and possibly lesser water parsnip (couldn't get very close for ID) at Upton Fen yesterday. Also completed the holy trinity of swallowtail when one went bouncing through the reeds in front of Great Broad. No photo sadly!
July 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
A cinnabar moth on marsh thistle, a large skipper on purple loosestrife and possibly lesser water parsnip (couldn't get very close for ID) at Upton Fen yesterday. Also completed the holy trinity of swallowtail when one went bouncing through the reeds in front of Great Broad. No photo sadly!
A delightful pompom of water mint from Ranworth Broad boardwalk yesterday #HairyPlant #WildflowerHour also a swallowtail caterpillar, a swallowtail chrysalis & a larger photo of it's food plant- milk parsley.
Also saw an osprey- one of the first to breed in East Anglia in over 250 years
Also saw an osprey- one of the first to breed in East Anglia in over 250 years
July 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
A delightful pompom of water mint from Ranworth Broad boardwalk yesterday #HairyPlant #WildflowerHour also a swallowtail caterpillar, a swallowtail chrysalis & a larger photo of it's food plant- milk parsley.
Also saw an osprey- one of the first to breed in East Anglia in over 250 years
Also saw an osprey- one of the first to breed in East Anglia in over 250 years
Not long til fledging for this pair (and neighbours). I reckon between now and Sunday. Saw my first FF today away from the nest and on the edge of a flat roof beside the colony. The only way it could have got there was wings 🕊️
July 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Not long til fledging for this pair (and neighbours). I reckon between now and Sunday. Saw my first FF today away from the nest and on the edge of a flat roof beside the colony. The only way it could have got there was wings 🕊️
Surely this is an AI construction for GCSE computer science?
July 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Surely this is an AI construction for GCSE computer science?
It was an strangely welcome overcast morning, brightened by the many flowers & bugs @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Carlton Marshes: common cudweed, hemp agrimony, tufted vetch and perennial sow thistle vivid against the grey skies #WildflowerHour
July 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It was an strangely welcome overcast morning, brightened by the many flowers & bugs @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Carlton Marshes: common cudweed, hemp agrimony, tufted vetch and perennial sow thistle vivid against the grey skies #WildflowerHour
Marsh mallow looking like marshmallow at Minsmere today #WildflowerHour
July 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Marsh mallow looking like marshmallow at Minsmere today #WildflowerHour
And here they are again, Kittiwake chicks have now reached 30+ days old as wing tips are the same length as the tail and no visible down left on the head or mantle #SuperSeabirdSunday
July 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
And here they are again, Kittiwake chicks have now reached 30+ days old as wing tips are the same length as the tail and no visible down left on the head or mantle #SuperSeabirdSunday
It's our 9th anniversary of togetherness today. Abandoned with the RSPCA twice, I was lucky enough to be able to give these two a stable & safe home. They didn't ask to be born & they deserved to be loved & meaningfully engaged with. I saved their lives, but really, they absolutely saved mine ❤️
July 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It's our 9th anniversary of togetherness today. Abandoned with the RSPCA twice, I was lucky enough to be able to give these two a stable & safe home. They didn't ask to be born & they deserved to be loved & meaningfully engaged with. I saved their lives, but really, they absolutely saved mine ❤️
White plume moths making more plume moths beside the path at Woods Meadow Country park. Lots of lovely flowers, including this magnificent rosebay willowherb in the naturally-wilded section.
Mind where you step though, dog mess everywhere. I certainly wouldn't risk going off-piste!
Mind where you step though, dog mess everywhere. I certainly wouldn't risk going off-piste!
June 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
White plume moths making more plume moths beside the path at Woods Meadow Country park. Lots of lovely flowers, including this magnificent rosebay willowherb in the naturally-wilded section.
Mind where you step though, dog mess everywhere. I certainly wouldn't risk going off-piste!
Mind where you step though, dog mess everywhere. I certainly wouldn't risk going off-piste!
Here is the same nest with #Kittiwake chicks, exactly a week on. The black tips to the upper wing coverts indicate that the birds are c11 days old. Don't they grow up fast!
June 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here is the same nest with #Kittiwake chicks, exactly a week on. The black tips to the upper wing coverts indicate that the birds are c11 days old. Don't they grow up fast!