The theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Paddling in shallow water. I think this is shallow enough! There’s a perfectly good garden pond about 6ft away, but no, he prefers the drinking bowl. 🙄

We popped up to Minchinhampton Common this afternoon for a brief walk between showers and came across our first ever Cordyceps militaris (Scarlet Caterpillar Club). Needless to say, we were extremely chuffed! 😁 #Fungi #FungiFriends

Taken exactly a year ago today, our one & only close-up view of a male Common Scoter #BirdOfTheDay #least

Split Gill Mushroom (Schizophyllum commune) with its beautiful fan-like underside and its frilly pink and white lacy top - always a nice one to find. #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #StandingOnThings in this case a Robin on my hand! This also qualifies for #HolidayRobin too!!

Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay is all about #Fighting These two locked talons before the Peregrine saw off the Buzzard who was obviously silly enough to wander into its territory #Birds

UK Government take note please @labouruk.bsky.social 🦇 🕷️🐌

For #BirdOfTheDay one from our archives. Cedar Waxwing just about to catch lunch (looks more like a snack to me) From a trip to the States a few years ago. Still one of Pete’s best and luckiest shots, I reckon! #LunchTime #Birds

This is wonderful! Well done folks in Suffolk. 👏It’s up to ordinary people now, the government are not going to help - quite the opposite. 😡 @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

Avocet #BirdOfTheDay #Closeups #Birds #EastCoastKin

Kestrel on a lichen-covered rock for #BirdOfTheDay theme #rock

Well, you asked for #Pigeons for #BirdOfTheDay so here’s one from our archives. Taken a few years ago at WWT Slimbridge. It made us laugh then and still does now!! 🤣

A baby Slow Worm. First time I’ve ever seen one this young. I never realised how pretty they were.

Good morning Rob. Here’s a Little Grebe for #BirdOfTheDay #Grebes

Parasol (?) with a view on Predannack Cliff, Cornwall #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Good Morning Bluesky! Here’s a shiny beetle seen last week in Cornwall - Chrysolina banksii 🪲💚 #InsectThursday #Beetles

Duck! #BirdOfTheDay #OddAngles

Spoonbill with green ring V463 still at Hayle, Cornwall, at least 2 years there now. He/she has grown adult plumage and bill and now has a couple of companions for company. Pic taken last week. #WaderWednesday #UKBirds

Bar-tailed Godwit at Carnsew Pool, Hayle, Cornwall last week for #WaderWednesday #Birds

I missed out #BirdOfTheDay and #DailyDouble 🙄

Good Morning everyone. Two young crows on the cliff near Mullion, Cornwall last week. One of them was playing with a bit of stick and obviously having fun! The other wasn’t so sure about it! #Twosday

A trio of gorgeous Rosy Bonnets (?) on the woodland floor this morning. (I do love the squiggly little bit of grass-like stuff in front of them!) #WildFungiHour #WildFlowerHour #FungiFriends

Yellow Stagshorn looking like little flames on an old stump - spotted on our walk in the woods this morning #WildFungiHour #WildFlowerHour

Found this pretty Slime Mould on our walk in the local woods this morning. I think it may be the early stage of Stemonitis flavogenita (happy to be corrected!) #SlimeMouldSunday

This is Trevor (one of our visiting ducks - we name them all, of course) He looks very smart now that he’s moulted out of eclipse plumage and I’m sure he’d want to wish you all a happy #MallardMonday

I now know that the stunning bird we saw on Mullion Cliff, Cornwall yesterday is a Steppe Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor ssp. pallidirostris) as confirmed by @cbwps.org.uk and other helpful birders - thanks folks! 🙏

Walking a bit of the coast path on Mullion Cliff, Cornwall this afternoon spotted this stunning Shrike. Checking the ID I think it may be a first winter Lesser Grey Shrike but I’m not certain. Any thoughts birders? @runnelstone.bsky.social @cbwps.org.uk #birds

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay you can’t get much more #colourful than a male Yellowhammer. (Also goes well with #SundayYellow!) #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Just realised I should have copied in @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Found a stunning moth this afternoon whilst walking a bit of the coast path at Mullion, Cornwall. It’s a Crimson Speckled Footman (Utetheisa pulchella). First time we’ve seen one in the UK #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Colin the Corn Bunting showing one skinny leg! #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Found a whole clutch of baby Puffballs! 🥰 #MushroomMonday #fungi #FungiFriends

When things all get too much I can imagine just sitting on this inviting bench and soaking up the peace and beauty of the forest.

Found this baby mushroom in Ravensroost Wood, Wiltshire. The closest I could find in ID guides was Amanita echinocephala (Solitary amanita) but I’m not sure the soil there was right - not calcareous. Any thoughts folks? 🙏 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social

We found this stunning Rove Beetle in Loch Ard Forest, Trossachs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 a little while back. I think it is Staphylinus erythropterus. #InsectThursday #Beetles

Bit of a surprise this morning - a Juniper Shieldbug sat very nicely on our one, remaining, very small Ragwort flower in the garden! #wildwebswednesday

Plenty of these fascinating Earth Tongues in Loch Ard Forest, Trossachs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Apparently the little white dots are another fungus growing on them (Hypomyces papulasporae) #Fungi #FungiFriends

Happy #twosday & #coosday everyone! Here are two of @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social finest Highland coos - no visit to Scotland would be complete without seeing some! (Pic taken just a wee while ago) #arnbegfarmstayscotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Looking like it’s burning its way out of a fallen pine tree - Conifer Mazegill #UKFungusDay #Fungi #FungiFriends

Plenty of Meadow Pipits around the farm @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social This one was posing very nicely on a fence post, a few days ago now when the weather was lovely #birds #arnbegfarmstayscotland

Dozens of these beautiful little mushrooms all around the car park at Loch Drunkie in the Trossachs, Scotland last week. I think they may be Blue-girdled Webcaps (Cortinarius collinitus), any thoughts #FungiFriends? Happy for confirmation or correction! #FungiFriday

Last week @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social when the weather was lovely and the sheep enjoying the morning sun ☀️ #sheep

What a sweetie! ❤️🐑 One of the flock @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social I love the way they just look straight at you! #sheep #petsheep #arnbegfarmstayscotland

A Hoverfly on one of the last Knapweed flowers along the track to @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social #WildWebsWednesday #arnbegfarmstayscotland

One of the adorable Angoras at @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social getting into the spirit of #TongueoutTuesday! 😜 #arnbegfarmstayscotland

Common Hawker Dragonfly (Aeshna juncea). I don’t very often get to see this dragonfly and this male was happy to sit on a tree trunk long enough to have his photo taken. At Flanders Moss NNR, Scotland @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social #odonata

A flat-out Fly Agaric at Flanders Moss - an amazing area of raised peat bog between @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social and the Trossachs. Plenty of these attractive mushrooms in the woods alongside the moss. #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends

Aww look at her! 🥰 so glad we met Toots last week! One of the brightest stars (certainly the loudest!) of the flock @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social 🐑🌟 ❤️ #sheep #petsheep

A female sparrow - one of many around the farm @arnbegfarmstay.bsky.social Great to see as we seem to have lost all our garden ones back home #sparrowsunday #arnbegfarmstayscot #birds

A hairy huddle!! A group of Hairy Shieldbugs (Dolycoris baccarum) having a bit of a get-together in our local woods. #InsectThursday