Small World at Potteric Carr

I stopped at Potteric Car nature reserve yesterday on my way up to Keighly for the YPU Day and spent a couple of hours photographing ' Caps' like the Green Elf Cap, Grey Disco and Yellow Fairy Cap plus several Slime Moulds and minute Fungi. The last image shows Shield Bug eggs plus a small Collembid

The Regal Cambridge

A few images taken through the rippled glass windows of the hall at St Andrews Church of the back of Wetherspoons and the Geology Museum - candidates for a talk I am writing on photographing architecture creatively.

 

Flowering Late or Early - Climate Change?

With the lack of frosts and the generally moist and relatively warm conditions, there are lots of wild flowers open in my Cambridgeshire garden that would normally be dormant such as the Red Campion, Dandelion, Primrose, Knapweed, Chicory (a new self-seeded species this year) and Chickweed plus some naturalised species - Linaria, Alkanet and Corydalis. Various garden perennials are still flowering or are starting early like the Jasmine and Erysium (wallflower) while some annuals such as Cosmos and Marigolds are from this year's seeds.

RSPB Sandy Heathland Fungi etc

A somewhat reduced party explored the heathland at Sandy in the afternoon and spent a couple of hours happily engaged with a large variety of species including this very impressive slime mould (many images are jpeg out-of-the-camera stacks as limited time to process at the moment). I also include a species sheet for the day