Memory Walk at Blickling Estate

In December last year I lost a very important man in my life, my Uncle Ian.  He had Alzheimer's, it was awful seeing him deteriorate so badly. I am glad to say we were with him when he passed away so he wasn't alone.

After we lost him i decided I wanted to do something to help raise money to eradicate this money. We signed up for the Memory Walk in Norwich.

However my day off at work changed so we ended up not being able to actually attend the official one. Let's do our own we said!!

We chose to do a 5 mile walk around the Blickling Estate incorporating 50 species of wildlife!!

We set off on the 19th of August and actually did 5.88 miles and found 70 species!! Here they all are...

1: Honeybee
2: White Tailed Bumblebee
3: Wood Pigeon
4: Speckled Wood Butterfly
5: Crow
6: Common Darter Dragonfly
7: Migrant Hawker Dragonfly
8: Speckled Bush Cricket
9: Large Red Dragonfly
10: Meadow Brown Butterfly
11: Meadow Grasshopper
12: Red Admiral Butterfly
13: Common Wasp
14: Lacewing
15: Lesser Black Backed Gull
16: Large white - Butterfly
17: Swallows
18: House Martins
19: Robberfly - Dasypogininae
20: Gatekeeper Butterfly
21: Bee Wolf - Digger Wasp philanthus
22: Greater Black Backed Gull
23: Ruby Tailed Wasp
24: Ichneumon Wasp
25: Weevil Wolf
26: Flesh fly
27: Red Tailed Bumblebee
28: Brown Hawker Dragonfly
29: Southern Hawker Dragonfly
30: Marmalade Hoverfly
31: Common Buzzard
32: Garden Spider araneus diadematus
33: mallard
34: Egyptian geese
35: black tailed skimmer dragonfly
36: common carder bee
37: common blue damselfly
38: green aphids
39: anthocomus rufus
40: blue bug zicrona caerulea
41: dock leaf bug
42: broad bodied chaser dragonfly
43: great crested grebe plus 3 babies
44: 22 spot ladybird
45: reed warbler
46: kestrel
47: roe deer plus baby
48: robberfly - promachus
49: field vole
50: magpie
51: dorbeetles geotrupes stecorarius
52: violet ground beetle
53: longtailed tit
54: pheasants
55: rooks
56: grey squirrel
57: tawny owl - heard
58: frog
59: grass moth
60: comma butterfly
61: chaffinch
62: wren
63: bluebottle
64: dung fly
65: sparrowhawk and baby
66: jackdaw
67: common blue butterfly
68: blue tailed damselfly
69: moorhen
70: black headed gull

We had to rescue loads of Dor Beetles as they were getting squashed on the path, we also got to see them burrowing.  Amazing behaviours!

We got up close and personal with a hunting male kestrel and got to see the swallows feeding and play on the wing  it was almost like a ballet.

After all the money has come in we have actually raised so much more thab yhe initial £150 we were aiming for. We have got £420.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us through this journey!!