Moss Taylor is not only an excellent speaker but also a first-class photographer and we enjoyed his pictures of birds (particularly) and plants through the seasons, starting with autumn. He described how about 150,000 pink-footed geese come through north Norfolk each year and they are not popular with farmers as they trample on young crops! He went on to describe robins (Victorian postmen were often called ‘robins’ because of their red coats), blue tits coal tits and jays.
In the ‘springtime’ segment he said how stonechats and wrens are symbiotic– the stonechat looks out for danger while the wren digs around in the scrub, sending insects up for the stonechat! Moss covered many other species of birds which appear here in the rest of the year and also described the lifecycle of dragonflies as well as mentioning various plants in the Broads.
We learnt a great deal and thanked Moss for his excellent talk. We also learnt a new word in connection with skuas: ‘kleptoparasitism’- this is where one bird steals from another bird!
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