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A full house at last night's annual quiz resulted in a lively and enjoyable evening. Despite making the questions more challenging than in previous years the scores were incredible, several teams getting just a couple of wrong answers. Many quizzers commented that our use of electronic scoreboard, printed question / answer sheets and a proper PA system made the evening 'special'...

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The waning gibbous Moon lit up the whole sky last night, making Jupiter the only planet visible. Meanwhile, the Sun has half a dozen small sunspot groups on show.


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The first of the year! These adorable little creatures have the loudest buzz of any insect that visits our garden. This is a tawny-coloured male (The females are black) You can easily see how the species got its name!


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For a change, the sky was clear all night, so I was able to photograph the full Moon as it rose in the east and set in the west this morning. (The setting Sun revealed a few sunspots: there was a lot of haze as I took the photo, so it's not desperately clear!)


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A bright - but chilly - morning at Cley and Kelling Heath gave us great views of some large flocks of waders: 100+ Golden Plover, Avocets and Black-tailed Godwits as well as good numbers of Dunlin and Ruff. At least five Marsh Harriers continually flushed the lot, but they resettled until a tractor came along and sent them all off to the North Scrape. The walk back to the VC ...


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