Yesterday's exploration continued; unearthing the past with Steve Boreham. The #Geology of the @GreatFen #workshop took us back in time (3.7m below ground); through the #WhittleseaMere lakebed, wood #peat , deposits from when the sea was in the #Fens , buried moss peat, and more.

Tim Holt-Wilson The National Lottery The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership It would be nice to organise an equivalent BM & BO for the western fen edge - a kind of 'we'll show you ours if you show us yours', compare & contrast, same but different field trip....

Q: What did you enjoy most about 'Burnt Mounds & Bog Oaks'?
Participant: 'Finding out about soil, archaeology & geology, and putting it all together to tell a captivating story about the Fens, which I previously thought was a boring man-made landscape'. The National Lottery The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership

'Burnt Mounds & Bog Oaks' day school
The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership funded by The National Lottery on Saturday - many thanks to Stephen Sizer & family (Lakenheath) for digging a pit to show the ancient lake marl of Redmere and its fossil shells. #Holocene #Brecks #geodiversity
FenEdgeTrail Fascinating Fens

'Burnt Mounds & Bog Oaks' day school The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership unfurling in perfect weather yesterday: five geodiverse archaeological sites visited explaining the #Holocene story of the Fen edge - crowned by a purring Turtle Dove in Feltwell.
Many thanks to landowners for access & support.

Antoine et al Last interglacial calcareous tufa sequence at Caours (Somme basin, France)
We also need to sample low terraces of UK rivers to ensure we aren’t missing Stage 5e sites.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Graham Bathe drew my attention to the mutual exclusively of wild garlic and bluebell patches in ancient woodland. This is in Gopher Wood, Wiltshire; does it indicate chemical traces of earlier land use? The wood sits on top of prehistoric field systems and settlement

Clare is a beautiful town on the Essex/Suffolk border. Now it is even more picturesque with the addition of 40 Swift nest boxes put up around the town this weekend, thanks to the local Swift group. Suffolk Bird Group SuffolkWildlifeTrust Swift conservation works!

Old Frank - still, hunched & very patient - bides his time on the pond, watching moorhen comings & goings - jumps, flaps and stabs - collars a moorhen chick then swallows it - thinks a bit then flaps off like a grey pterodactyl to digest it somewhere quiet.
#Suffolk

A snail from my garden in north Suffolk - someone says it is Hygromia cinctella ('mainly Mediterranean' says Kerney & Cameron, introduced to S Devon). Can anyone SNS Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society Malacological Society of London confirm, please?
#snails #mollusca #wildlife

Shocked at Dan Poulter defection. Takes a lot for someone to change party.

But has he only just realised this govt has been undermining the NHS?

In elections it's The Green Party challenging Conservatives in rural Suffolk & we're arguing for investment the NHS needs.
#BBCLauraK

Dr Peter Allen, you have created a masterpiece 👏 and found some bedding structure in the deposit. Horrible bedding, but more than we hoped for! Amazing work for our #StanmoreGravelProject and excellent training for #CitizenScience Natural History Museum British Geological Survey

The cost of natural history books can be a barrier for naturalists, which is why NNNS teamed up with the Ted Ellis Trust to put together a research library (which is held at Wheatfen). If there are any field guides or ID books you think we should have then let us know

Elana Rowlands, 10, discovers megalodon tooth at Bawdsey Beach. No giant megs when we were there with ⁦Tim Holt-Wilson⁩ last September, but we did see a couple of London Clay teeth, and splendid Red Crag molluscs. A grand day out. #fossilfriday suffolknews.co.uk/felixstowe/gir…

'Burnt Mounds & Bog Oaks' day school The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership next Saturday May 4th, based at Mildenhall Museum. Booking eventbrite.co.uk/e/burnt-mounds… - exploring #geodiversity #archaeology of the Fen edge.
#Norfolk #Suffolk FenEdgeTrail Fenland Black Oak Great Fen Geological Society of Norfolk Cambridgeshire Geological Society

On Sunday 5th May some of our county recorders and specialist group co-ordinators are meeting NWT staff at Sweet Briar Marshes to find out more about how we can help record wildlife there. If that sounds of interest you are welcome to join us, details below:

Nature is Amazing ☘️ No big deal; just a guy playing fetch with a beluga whale... 😮

A 392 year old Greenland Shark in the Arctic Ocean, wandering the ocean since 1627.

What's left of a Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) at Hockwold, no doubt caught by an otter, reveals its wide mouth with Palaeozoic-looking jaw plates and fine dentition. This specimen was nowhere near 3m length they can attain, but it's still an impressive gob. #fish Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language