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ooh not an invasive species Poppy...just taking a break from this green and sceptic Isle for, well, several hundred years, 1416 last recorded breeding pair. Talking of breeding the stork is often associated with babies. This is just in the modern UK where we got it a bit wrong. Traditionally the stork nesting on top of your house is a sign of 'adultery'. This might explain why there aren't any of the little breeders about these days...the medieval equivalent of the Sun tapping your phone & publishing your antics.

Apparently there is a scheme afoot to reintroduce them to Norfolk...probably supported by those councils who stopped collecting rubbish as the stork feeds on frogs, fishes and rubbish dumps. If spotted the Royal Society for the Proliferation of Spuggies and Donations from Landed Widows on Deathbeds would like you to contact them...probably so they can concoct some idiotic nonsense to support some half cocked notion of what constitutes sustainable land management and tap your old Granny for some land, screw you out of your inheritance, which they can then sell for housing. (Hope my dislike of the RSPB is not too obvious).

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25 minutes ago, Timbo said:

ooh not an invasive species Poppy...just taking a break from this green and sceptic Isle for, well, several hundred years,

a bit like Himalayan Balsam, then. Oh, and the European beaver, the Eurasian wolf  etc.....

I'm not too fond of some of the more extreme activities of the widlife and conservation organisations either.

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Forgot to mention but sadly no time for a photo...just coming out of Salhouse towards Horning on our second day, a seal went swimming past heading up stream towards Wroxham. By the time the camera came out it was out of site but a great spot by the wife.

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The Thrigby stork is a well known sighting in the area from Thurne mouth downstream - he (she? ) and perhaps some of the others there, seem to fly around that area quite a lot. Good spot though!!

Poppy  - despite your comments, the Himalayan Balsam is a nightmare. I am delighted lots of conservation bodies take a lot of time and effort to try and keep this under control, as do the BA. Parts of the country seem to have it much worse than us but it should be kept under control if at all possible. Agreed it is not so much as a nightmare as Japanese Knotweed but it would be nice to see it go !!

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1 minute ago, marshman said:

The Thrigby stork is a well known sighting in the area from Thurne mouth downstream - he (she? ) and perhaps some of the others there, seem to fly around that area quite a lot. Good spot though!!

Poppy  - despite your comments, the Himalayan Balsam is a nightmare. I am delighted lots of conservation bodies take a lot of time and effort to try and keep this under control, as do the BA. Parts of the country seem to have it much worse than us but it should be kept under control if at all possible. Agreed it is not so much as a nightmare as Japanese Knotweed but it would be nice to see it go !!

There are fossil remains found  in coal strata in Yorkshire  - and the insects - especially bees - don't half love it!

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23 hours ago, marshman said:

Ok  - noted, but not entirely sure that justifies leaving it alone - I would hate to see it so dominant here that it literally covered the banks for miles!!

At least it's shorter than the trees, a few beaver might help in that direction as well providing they fell them off of the main river....

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