Lichen #nature

 

 

Lichen, unidentified, January 2016

 

Possibly of the genus Lecanora. (more…)

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Prize rosette #plants

 

 

Flowers, Spear Thistle, provisional identification, January 2016

 

Spear Thistle, Cirsium vulgare, provisional identification. (more…)

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Bouquet of barbed wire #trees

 

 

Trees, Hawthorn, January 2016

 

Hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna. (more…)

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The east ride #nature

 

 

Ride, east, January 2016

 

Looking south. (more…)

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Common Bonnet #fungi

 

 

Fungi, Common Bonnet, provisional identification, January 2016

 

Mycena galericulata, provisional identification. (more…)

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‘As a feather is wafted downward’ #nature

 

 

Feather, birds, January 2016

 

From The Day is Done by Longfellow (more…)

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First of the buttercups – Lesser Celandine #plants

 

 

Flowers, Lesser Celandine, January 2016

 

Ranunculas ficaria. Last year the first one seen flowering was in March – this is about six weeks earlier. (more…)

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The east ride #nature

 

 

Ditch, east ride, January 2016

 

The ditch looking south. (more…)

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Egg #birds

 

 

Egg, birds, January 2016

 

Unknown bird’s egg, not as perfect as it looks as it was holed on the other side and laying in the clearing. (more…)

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Chicken-of-the-woods #fungi

 

 

Fungi, Chicken-of-the-woods, provisional identification, January 2016

 

Laetiporus sulphureus, provisional identification. (more…)

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A world in a raindrop #nature

 

Trees, general, January 2016

 

A reflection of the wood in water running from a Hawthorn. (more…)

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Silver Birch in mist #trees

 

 

Mist, trees, January 2016

 

The clearing, fringed by Betula pendula. (more…)

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