We spent a couple of days last week exploring Holkham National Nature Reserve, just east of Wells-next-the-Sea on the Norfolk coast. It has a wonderful variety of habitats, including sand dunes and salt marsh....
- conifer woodland behind the dunes .....
... and then deciduous scrub ............
which is excellent bird and butterfly habitat, where on this trip we saw ....
... comma butterflies ....
.. long-tailed tits...
.... wild cherry that was a magnet for bumblebees ....
.... and a lot of silver birches loaded with catkins.
It was still a bit early for most wild flowers but on the dunes we found the ....
... miniscule early forget-me-not, 1cm. tall with flowers that were only about 1mm. in diameter and .....
... stork'sbill - you can find fine pictures of these last two wild flowers at Rob's excellent Wight Rambles blog
There were a couple of other rather more unusual species that we saw while we were there, but I'll save those for subsequent posts. An excellent reserve to visit, at any time of year ... we'll be going back in the summer
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