Iron Man is a Fe male.

Kelling Heath was full of garden warbler this week, with distant Dartford warblers, stonechat and woodlark. No adders this time but first green hairstreaks for the year and these nomad bees exploring the mining bee holes along the main path to the rail crossing - anyone able to ID? #norfolkbirding

These majestic animals should not be killed for tradition. Share if you agree!

We're very proud to have received the Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award 2026! Thanks to all of our visitors for writing such wonderful reviews, and a big thanks to the volunteers who dedicate their time and skills in engaging with visitors and creating this special museum.

What a superb and beautiful show, some brilliant birds and the relationship between the two of them is so warm and supportive

Wonderful to find several adders on our walk today on the North Norfolk heaths. #adders

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

Human: I get pleasure from smoking. Doctor: It's killing you. Human: But I get pleasure from smoking. Human: I get pleasure from feeding the birds all year. RSPB: Can you cut it down as it's killing some birds? Human: But I get pleasure from feeding the birds all year.

Cuckoo at Strumpshaw tonight, along with reeling grasshopper warblers, reed, willow and sedge warblers too. At least two bitterns booming and one out in the open in the left cut at Fen Hide #norfolkbirding

A reminder that this joke works on virtually anyone if you do the accent. You: What's a pirate's favorite letter? Them: Arrrrrrrrrr? You: *entirely different voice* Ye'd think so, but his first love be the C!!!

Out with mum for the evening check on the new lambs born this afternoon on the farm in Winteringham, picked up a unfamiliar call outside the barn only to discover a corn bunting doing his 'jangling of keys' song from the telephone wires. #lincsbirding

A bad day for the enemies of the rule of law is a good day for everyone else.

Brilliant first visit to Spurn and Kilnsea Wetlands, at least 10 wheatear and whimbrel by the sea hide, six yellow wagtails with the highland cows, and masses of other waders along the shoreline even with the strong winds #spurn #yorkshirebirding

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The timing is coincidental, but @atomcentral.bsky.social has just released a stunning restoration of “Power of Decision”—a once secret 1957 USAF film showing how a nuclear war would be managed from start to finish, perhaps to help SAC officers and airmen prepare for the worst/last day of their jobs.

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

DucklingWatch The DucklingWatch citizen science project, led by Hannah Coburn at the University of Essex, returns for its second year. Submitting your records of Mallard ducklings will help improve understanding of duckling survival rates and drivers of population trends.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?

2 minutes in and already in awe of the photography skills on display here @whistlingjoe.bsky.social

A brilliant afternoon at NWT Hickling with 8 cranes circling overhead, bitterns booming as well as one strutting in front of Bittern Hide, and an adder on the path to the Mill #birdsseenin2026 #birds #norfolkbirding

Ryan Gosling Recalls Preparing For ‘Project Hail Mary’ By Consulting Katy Perry https://theonion.com/ryan-gosling-recalls-preparing-for-project-hail-mary-by-consulting-katy-perry/

The median age in Britain is about 40. The median Briton has not experienced sustained economic growth in their adult life time.

A beautiful morning at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, first sand martin, snipe and green sandpiper sighting for the year, trees full of birdsong but still not heard or seen a bittern yet. Five lizards along sandy wall, plus a drinker moth caterpillar. #norfolkbirding #birdsseenin2026 #birds

Sanderlings weren't the only things struggling with the wind on Titchwell beach yesterday, just missed the long-tailed ducks and the Sandwich terns, but good views of the scaup and the 'tangle' of knot. Nice to see the tawny owl has a partner too. #norfolkbirding #birds #birdsseenin2026

"I don't know how I got to be this old without knowing more about birds." Adrian Edmondson is to learn more about birdwatching via a new TV show. He joins actor Samuel West on new Channel 5 series Sam & Ade Go Birding. www.comedy.co.uk/people/fyi/1...

New 'my hopes and dreams being crushed in the space of single second' meme just dropped.

Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world. We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

Wonderful to finally catch up with the black-winged kite today at Ludham Bridge, watching it catch a small rodent and then perch to eat it, though under the close gaze of a local peregrine #norfolkbirding #birdsseenin2026

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

What do this ancient oak, this swallowtail, this natterjack have in common? 1) They live on Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserves. 2) They benefit from people buying This Wild Dream. ALL profits go to NWT (nothing to me). Help us celebrate NWT’s centenary TODAY www.thebookhive.co.uk/product/this...

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

1. what a goddamn disappointment 2. claires!?

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Reminded today of this fantastic short film for BBC Winterwatch www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

A cold stroll to the beach at RSPB Titchwell Marsh today, Slavonian grebe and scaup on the tidal marsh, peregrine putting up the curlews by the roadside and a smart pair of pintail outside Island Hide #Norfolkbirding #Birdsseenin2026 #Birds

Both The Harry Hill Show and Small Prophets have been completely superb viewing, more of this please youtu.be/7hiTF1bhpog?...

“Why does my calculator like Boobs?”

The museum won't be open tomorrow, we'll be at the Forum, Norwich for the norwichsciencefestival.co.uk But we haven't forgotten Valentine's Day, see, we found this lovely heart shaped plotting counter for you. Does anyone know why it is a different shape to the regular arrow shapes?

Bees 🐝

I changed the audio

A cold but brilliant morning at North Denes, at least three short-eared owls, snow buntings, flocks of pintail and wigeon flying offshore, sanderlings and ringed plovers #Norfolkbirding #birds #Birdsseenin2026

Just a week to go before the Norwich Science Festival norwichsciencefestival.co.uk You can come and see us and loads of other great organisations Saturday 14th February at the Forum, running activities throughout the day, with a special ticketed quiet hour starting from 9:30am-10:30am.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Weird duck season in Norfolk continues for us, with the latest being this scaup at Titchwell Marsh yesterday, following the goosander at Whitlingham last Monday as well as the previous weekend's goldeneye at Filby and red-breasted merganser at Wells. #norfolkbirding #birds #Birdsseenin2026