Ben Rackstraw

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Birding and general nature seeker in West Norfolk. Mainly on foot.

A Sycamore in the evening sunshine. There is a Purple Hairstreak just visible in the centre of the picture
Male Silver-washed Fritillary on thistle, near Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, 24/06/26
Putative female Southern Migrant Hawker at rest, Wretton, Norfolk, 22/06/26
Scarlet Tiger moth resting on a leaf, Stoke Ferry cut-off channel, Norfolk, 07/06/26
3 Grizzled Skippers and a Brown Argus 'roosting' on umbellifer heads, along the cut-off channel, Wretton, Norfolk
A poor picture of a resting Clouded Yellow butterfly. Wretton, Norfolk 26/10/25.
A Bedstraw Hawkmoth feeding on Buddleia, Holme NOA, Norfolk, 15.8.25.
Swallows gathering on power lines on an August evening, Wretton, Norfolk 14/8/25.
Copulating Clouded Yellow butterflies, Holme Dunes NWT, 8th August 2025
Antony Szmierek at Latitude 2025, secret set on Saturday night
3 Stone-curlews having a territorial dispute at NWT Weeting Heath
Female/immature Black Darter, Dersingham Bog, Norfolk 9/7/25
Hurried photo of a Scarlet Tiger moth resting on Leylandii, Wretton, Norfolk, 24/06/25
Male Purple Hairstreak on ground, photograph of underside of wings, Stoke Ferry common, Norfolk 20/06/25
A distant adult Stone-curlew in the heat haze at NWT Weeting Heath
Male Reeve's Pheasant, Wretton, Norfolk 05/03/25
Snow Bunting on the beach at Holme Dunes NWT, Norfolk, 14.2.25
Common Seal, Wretton cut-off channel, tens of miles from the sea, 18/01/25.
A drake Goosander on the cut-off channel, Wretton, Norfolk, 12/01/2025.
Male Stonechat perched on a dead Thistle on afternoon sunshine. One of 4 seen on a walk around fields near Wretton 02/01/2025.
A group of Whooper Swans on a Fenland flash. Wretton 30/12/2024.
1st calendar year Glaucous Gull, its head and breast stained from the dead seal it is feeding on; Old Hunstanton beach, Norfolk 12.12.24
A Starling feeding on the beach, with a Shore Lark in front of it. Holme Dunes NWT beach, 29.11.24
Male Merlin perched on a rope fence, along the beach at NWT Holme Dunes.
Little Bunting, Hunstanton, Norfolk, 7th November 2024
Juvenile Kentish Plover, Holme NWT beach 22/10/24
Northern Wheatear, Holme, Norfolk 21/10/24
Wryneck in the Forestry, Holme NWT, Saturday 7th September 2024
Male Merlin, Holme Dunes NWT, 09/02/24
Red Kite, SW Norfolk, New Year's Day 2024
Colourful dusk skies over the fens
Cattle Egret, Stoke Ferry cut-off channel 17/12/23