Toft Garden Mosses

A start on the mosses in the garden - very tentative IDs!!

Toft Wood Lichens and Mosses

Continuing my task of recording Toft's wildlife for our 2025 village project, here a selection of lichens and mosses from the wood with tentative IDs. The final delicate toadstool growing out of a single leaf took my eye when photographing a ground-level moss.

Slime Moulds in Toft Leaf and Log Piles

Amazed at the number of slime moulds that have erupted on the leaves and stalks in my compost area while the logs continue to fruit further specimens. The first three are Didymium squamulosum and the next two Comatrichia species but, the others I need help identifying especially the white lumpy fruiting bodies (now identified as young Didymium squamulosum) and the final species with Collembolids (ID Arcyria spp).

Welney WWT on a Grey Day

Some images taken at Welney on a very grey misty day on Saturday. I enjoyed trying to portray the flooded Ouse Washes with ducks (Pochard, Mallard), Geese, Lapwings and Whooper Swans.

Lady Fen Welney Sightings

A very enjoyable day at Welney yesterday in the company of RPS Nature group members and volunteers from Paxton Pits. The dull light all day did not lend itself to distant photography but I enjoyed the challenge of finding and capturing the variety of wildlife on Lady Fen in the fenland landscape. The first Short-eared Owl took us by surprise as it flew close and over the bank. Other views were more distant. In the afternoon Steve located a Hare in its 'form' - amazingly camouflaged - just the eye giving it away. Good to get some closer photography of the Tree and House sparrows and Stonechat. Three species of Egret (Cattle, Great and Little), two deer species (Roe and Chinese Water), Heron and Kestrel completed the roll call