In time for Christmas, reindeer moss -Cladonia ranginformis growing with neat feather moss - Pseudoscleropodium purum on the Spetchells in the Tyne country park #WildWebsWednesday #lichen #Moss

A tree fusion, two trees next to each other have united to look like one. Will the larger group do the same I wonder #ThickTrunkTuesday

Small moss oysterling growing among the moss, pixie cup lichen and great scented liverwort on a wall next to the railway line in Hexham, Northumberland #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Lichen

Welsh poppy still flowering in the rain this week #WildflowerHour

Bumblebees visiting knapweed #wildflowers #bees

Some nice fungi in the woods at Pow Hill country park in County Durham yesterday, black turkey tail type, maybe smoky polypore, a mass of lovey candle snuff and an interesting flat brown bracket on a tree trunk #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Looking forward to the crocus, no signs yet but some bulbs are starting to sprout #BloomScrolling #Gardening #InsectThursday

Lovely lichens loving the wet weather we’ve had in the UK recently #WildWebsWednesday

Memories of summer with cosmos in the garden #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Bees

Paper bark maple and shades of bark for this weeks #ThickTrunkTuesday

Stroll along the river Tyne at Corbridge #Northumberland yesterday.

Greater periwinkle, daisy, stitchwort and dandelion, wildflower flower finds on walks around Northumberland this week for #WildflowerHour

Ferns and flowers, roses still with lots of buds and winter jasmine.

Lots of bracket fungi on a dead tree, gorgeous newly formed turkey tails and a lovely lipstick cup lichen growing on a stone #FungiFriday in a wood at Wallington Northumberland

In a sunny spot the other day the ivy was flowering and it was covered in wasps and blue bottles #InsectThursday

Sunny skies across Northumberland on yesterday’s walk

Frosty spindles in the lawn this morning #WildWebsWednesday #Fungi

Trees along the river Tyne, Northumberland #ThickTrunkTuesday

Jelly ears on the elder trees now and something jelly like but flatter on a stump that isn’t elder. Looking for scarlet elf cups in a place where I know they appear and couldn’t see any, taking a closer look at a yellow blobs maybe a slime mould I noticed the tiniest scarlet elf cups #MushroomMonday

Wild Angelica before the snow and tansy still looking good afterwards for #WildflowerHour this week

A very old sycamore for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Blue sky today at Gibside 🩵☀️

Mini mushrooms in the grass #MushroomMonday

Evening primrose, shaggy-soldier, musk mallow and white red valerian in flower this week near the Tyne #WildflowerHour

Parrot wax caps on the grass verge #FungiFriday

Trees for #ThickTrunkTuesday

A field that’s been left go wild for #WildflowerHour #TheWinter10 Poppies for Remembrance Sunday, camomile, red dead nettle, fumitory, mignonette, sow thistle, speedwell, American land cress and rape. In the hedge gorse, holly and black horehound also flowering, more photos in comments.

Velvet shank and candle snuff sharing a stump #FungiFriday

A robins pin cushion, a type of gall causes by a tiny wasp laying eggs on wild roses.

An old sliver birch #ThickTrunkTuesday

Water forget me not flowering this week in County Durham #WildflowerHour

The water levels in the reservoir at Pow Hill country park looking low for this time of year and not as much of the dog’s tooth lichen that comes up under the trees in some places.

Various fungi at Pow Hill country park, County Durham. Particularly like the dog vomit slime mould #FungiFriday

Only a wasp for #InsectThursday this week. Several of them on the ivy yesterday 🌿

A bunch of roses in the garden 🤍

As the sun goes down #ThickTrunkTuesday

Flowering this week along the coast at Whitley Bay, knapweed, I have think it’s cow parsley and sow thistle #WildflowerHour

Fungi and oak leaves 🍂

A fungi laden stump for #FungiFriday the stump will soon be gone 🍄‍🟫

Peek a boo, I see you 🐝 Perhaps the last bumblebee I’ll see this year. A parasitic wasp and a caterpillar in which it’ll probably lay eggs if it hasn’t already. Insects spotted this week #InsectThursday

Look both ways 🩵🩶

Sun through the trees on #TreeTuesday

Green alkanet flowering along the Tyne at Wylam #WildflowerHour

Dahlias in the garden #Flowers

Some nice ones on a fallen branch #FungiFriday

Fungi coming up in the lawn, snowy waxcaps and some tiny ones #MushroomMonday

Fox and cubs brightening up the grass verge this afternoon #WildflowerHour

Fungi finds this week in the wood and along the grass verges #fungifriday

A tachina fera fly no doubt laying her eggs to take advantage of the butterfly caterpillars. Plenty of harlequin ladybirds about too #InsectThursday

An old beech tree #thicktrunktuesday