Gallery
Norfolk's bee-eaters: Your pictures of the Trimingham colony
Matt Sanders took this close-up photo of the bee-eaters perched on a wire. - Credit: Matt Sanders
A colony of bee-eaters has brought thousands of visitors - many with cameras slung around their necks - to the north Norfolk coast.
Volunteers have been constantly manning a specially prepared watch-point from where people can catch a glimpse of the beautiful birds, which are nesting at a quarry in Trimingham.
Many of the visitors have been taking photos of the bee-eaters, which are a far more common site around the Mediterranean than Britain and are never known to have bred in Norfolk before.
Two bee-eaters on a wire at the north Norfolk site. - Credit: John Ford
The birds have been captured on film resting on wire and in bushes and also soaring through the air, their colourful wings outstretched.
Here is a selection of images of the birds taken by readers and followers of our Facebook page.
To send in your pictures, email stuart.anderson@archant.co.uk
A bee-eater bird spreads its rainbow wings at Trimingham, near Cromer in north Norfolk. - Credit: John Ford
A bee-eater in flight over Norfolk, at the site in Trimingham. - Credit: John Ford
A single bee-eater in the trees at Trimingham. - Credit: Charlotte Watlow
Jane Crossen captured this photo off our of the Trimingham bee-eaters. - Credit: Jane Crossen
Charlotte Watlow captured this image of a bee-eater in flight. - Credit: Charlotte Watlow
Three bee-eaters in the trees at Trimingham. - Credit: Louise Egan
One of the bee-eaters at the quarry in Trimingham, north Norfolk. - Credit: Tom Whiley tomwhileybirdart.blogspot.com
