Amelia's photos with the keyword: Narure

I used to see a lot of these when we lived in Norway. A few of them were flitting about behind the dune slacks at the Horsey gap. This type of area is the preferred environment for these insects. Auf Jakobs-Kreuzkraut (Senecio jacobaea). Die Pflanze enthält giftige Alkaloide und ist bei Farmern sehr unbeliebt, weil sie Rindern gefährlich werden kann, wenn die diese Pflanze fressen. Zyganea nimmt dieses Gift bereits im Raupenstadium auf und ist so, auch noch als Schmetterling, vor Fressfeinden geschützt. Super Foto! --- Translated by DeepL --- Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) is a plant that contains poisonous alkaloids and is very unpopular with farmers because it can be dangerous to cattle if they eat it. Zyganea already absorbs this poison in the caterpillar stage and is thus protected from predators, even as a butterfly. great photo! Information - thanks goes to Karl

SC104 An object out of place. Not an object but a living creature. While walking at the edge of the sea at Horsey on the east coast of Norfolk we came across 100s if not 1000s of these little jelly 'blobs' left stranded on the shoreline by the ebbing tide. They are in fact a member of the group of zooplankton and are called Pleurobrachia pileus or sea gooseberries. As you can see each organism is small, but they were present in such large numbers that they were very noticeable. They have most likely ended up on the beaches due to recent strong winds. They tend to be in high abundance at this time of year in any case due to the increased amount of phytoplankton and very small zooplankton plankton (their main food source) in surface water in the spring and summer, when the days get longer and the sun is higher in the sky. They can survive if they are returned to the sea quickly, but it would have been a mammoth task so to do. They grow up to about 2.5cm long.

At least it didn't rain, and the water wasn't too cold for a paddle.

Look carefully and you may see adult seals on the beach, and the young pups with their mothers in the dune area. This fence is a temporary structure preventing humans and dogs from disturbing the seals, but sometimes we do silly things. Only last week a seal pup that looked a bit lost was picked up and wrapped in a coat by a well meaning lady, and taken to one of the wardens. The pup died very shortly afterwards, and should have remained near its mother. I used the zoom built in to the camera to achieve closeups.