Summer must be here, first Polistes dominula of the year in Brundall, E Norfolk, hunting among my garden bindweed jungle.

Tormentil mining bee found in the fantastic valley mire at Broadland Country Park, only the 2nd time it has been seen in Norfolk this century. @sezb17

Correction: Macroteleia bicolora, and two previous UK occurrences (Hants, Sussex) documented.

Probably another county first, in fact can only find reference to one previous UK record. Macroteleia bicoloratus (Scelioninae), reared from reed stems alongside Conocephalus nymphs which are likely host.

Andrena vaga nesting found on a housing estate in Brundall this afternoon. First record for Norfolk I believe, but likely to be elsewhere in E.Norfolk and E Suffolk, sandy ground near willows.

More to do with working from home than anything else but lesser redpoll on our bird table was the second garden tick this month (after nuthatch). Shame about the dirty camera and dirtier windows though.

Any thoughts on the identity of this coral fungus, is horse paddock, under a poplar, E Norfolk.?

I last saw one of these in the 1980s. Sandy stilt puffball on road verge near the entrance to Strumpshaw fen today.

Following up info from @Ben_Lewis_uk, I had to have a look at a colony of Odynerus spinipes and parasite Chrysis viridula on a pile of soil behind the dunes at Waxham. A bit safer than scaling the crumbling E. Norfolk soft cliffs where I normally see these two.

A productive extended lunch break today delivered my first Stelis phaeoptera in the garden and a bonus Polistes dominula, and then two allotment firsts on the flowering parsnip in the shape of Andrena thoracica and Argogorytes fargeii. Also my first Colletes similis of the year.

This male Nomada from yesterday was almost dismissed as a small panzeri, but had the shortest hair fringe on the mid femur and the keys say it is conjungens. At an Andrena proxima site too. First Norfolk record if confirmed! @StevenFalk1

After a brief flyover a week ago, this paper wasp Polistes dominula settled in my garden this afternoon. This is the 4th year running in Brundall, so tentatively established.

Lots of Andrena proxima males along Boudiccas Way just S of Norwich, flying rapidly over knee height vegetation and nectaring on cow parsley. Fresh ones buff in flight, faded ones greyish. Like dorsata but shorter hind basitarsus. One to look for this week @andymus1

Small bird moving through tree canopy in E. Norfolk a few days ago with a song I can't place. It was not there the next day. Any ideas @BirdGuides

After two years looking, today I finally got to see a Polistes dominula nest at Brundall, Norfolk, found by my allotment neighbour in the chimney of her incinerator, with at least four females still attending.

Polistes dominula back on my East Norfolk allotment after multiple records in 2017 but none in 2018. Looks like an established population nearby?