\n Here are some wildlife spectacles to watch out for as the weather warms up.\n<\/p>\n
\n The swallowtail butterfly can only be seen on the Broads and emerges on warm, still days over fen and dyke from May to July.\n<\/p>\n
\n Hickling Broad and marshes is an ideal place to spot natural spectacles (Image: Kate Wolstenholme)\n<\/p>\n
\n The best places to spot them included Hickling Broads, Strumpshaw Fen and Ranworth Broad, each with the milk parsley plant they rely on and the careful water\u2011level management that keeps their habitat going\n<\/p>\n
\n Terns hovering, diving and calling over rivers, marshes and the sea make an easy\u2011to\u2011find spectacle.\n<\/p>\n
\n The migratory bird has key colonies in areas such as Winterton and Blakeney Point, where they arrive in the springtime, travelling thousands of miles from Africa.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another reason to head to the county’s wetlands is to spot the Norfolk Hawker dragonfly, which can be seen from May to mid July.\n<\/p>\n
\n They are easiest to spot along dyke and ditch edges in areas such as Hickling Broads or Strumpshaw Fen on a warm summer’s day.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bats can be spotted around greener areas of Norwich (Image: Angela Sharpe)\n<\/p>\n
\n Watch out for a medium\u2011large pale brown dragonfly with bright green eyes and a yellow triangle on the abdomen, patrolling low over the water.\n<\/p>\n
\n From May to September is when bats come out of hibernation, with the first hour after sunset being the best time to spot them flitting through trees and buildings.\n<\/p>\n
\n The best places to spot them around the county include Holkham Park, Hoveton and Salhouse Broads and even in the greener areas of Norwich.\n<\/p>\n
\n The elusive nightjar can be spotted around Norfolk (Image: Graham Osbourne\/PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n
\n Another evening spectacle is the churring and flight of the “elusive” nightjar, which is best seen at dusk in June and July.\n<\/p>\n
\n Heathland is the best habitat to see them in, with Kelling Heath, Dersingham Bog and Wretham Heath being the top recommended spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are some wildlife spectacles to watch out for as the weather warms up. The swallowtail butterfly can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-951242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116552412270002415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}