Velvet Shank, Bloxholm Wood, Lincolnshire #FungiFriday #Fungifriends

The Nocton Cow. Rural village wall art, Lincolnshire

#ThickTrunkTuesday Beech, Nocton, Lincolnshire

White Campion sheltering under the outer edge canopy of a Lawson Cypress conifer #WildflowerHour

The umbrella spokes of Hogweed still intact after being blown inside out during numerous spells of heavy horizontal rain. #WildflowerHour

Garden birds, Mosquitos and Springtails have been amongst the first residents to find the garden “litter bin lagoon”. Along with an unglamorously named Rat-tailed maggot. Perhaps the aquatic larvae of the harmless nectar feeding, flower pollinating Drone-fly, an accomplished Honey Bee mimic.

Squeezed some time in between other jobs today swirling some more of this seasons living willow screen growth on “The Nettles” adding to that completed with a monthly volunteer group a couple of weeks ago. Much more pruning twisting and turning to be done between now and the end of February.

A #ThickTrunkTuesday tree silhouette. Sycamore standing tall in a Lincolnshire hedgerow

Common Ragwort and a Lincolnshire farmland track catching the briefest moment of sunlight on an otherwise wet overcast day #WildflowerHour

Garlic Mustard flowering on a frosty November morning in a Lincolnshire hedgerow was not instantly recognisable. Somewhat out of season I thought I had found something new. #WildflowerHour

The first icing over of the garden wildlife pond will have seen off the last of the Pond Skaters but there will be much life going on beneath it. The now browned senescent Barred Horsetail in the foreground was a favoured perching point for Damsel and Dragonflies over the Spring and Summer.

Centre Stage. White Dead-nettle. Up Stage. The Wood Avens seedhead underneath it. #WildflowerHour

With a generous smudge of yellow, Field Pansy brightening up a damp rain lashed day on a Lincolnshire field of Barley stubble #WildflowerHour

A first solo effort at hedge laying back in Nov 2019. Not a typical hedge laying location, it is on an urban green space that ironically was farmland prior to sand and gravel extraction. It is only a short section but every year since, birds have nested it including the Blackbird that made this one

Oxeye Daisy holding on to its florets when everything else has blown down around it. #WildflowerHour

Pink-sorrel a fence jumped garden escapee on an urban green space #WildflowerHour

A Shroom with a view. Shaggy Scalycap #FungiFriday #Fungi #FungiFriends

The Limetree Avenue, National Trust Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire #ThickTrunkTuesday

Not overly brilliant at fungi identification but sometimes it appears to be just too obvious. Round headed and stood in dung. Dung Roundheads, Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Field Scabious a final glimpse of Summer amongst the Autumnal brown stems and seedheads of Common Knapweed #WildflowrHour

We are the Shaggy Inkcaps and we may pop up here and there in some not so expected grassy places. Shaggy Inkcap, rural roadside verge, Lincolnshire #WildfungiHour #WildflowerHour

Common puffball, Skellingthorpe Old Wood, Lincolnshire #FungiFriday #Fungi #FungiFriends

Rosy Bonnets, Skellingthorpe Old Wood, Lincolnshire #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Hedgerow Crane’s-bill amongst the concrete remnants of a former Lincolnshire airfield #WildflowerHour

With a hint of pareidolia, this fantastic Selfheal flower at the edge of our garden path has been watching me go to work all week and was still around this late afternoon to see me in after a working weekend #WildflowerHour

A Restharrow of sorts but despite some apparent spines, which one I am still not sure. #WildflowerHour

Field Madder. Most conspicuous in the size of its very tiny mauve-pink flowers. A new one for me observed along a well trodden Lincolnshire farmland footpath #WildflowerHour

Perhaps a Rooting Shank if anyone could confirm please. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Last weekends unposted #WildflowerHour pic but on closer inspection this Creeping Thistle on the edge of a River Witham flood bank is covered in aphids with three Seven-spot Ladybirds amongst them. #WildWebsWednesday

English Oak at Norton Big Wood, Lincolnshire on #ThickTrunkTuesday

Popping the last of its buttons. This Tansy clump has been centre stage on a small area of urban lakeside grass that I have refrained from mowing for the last five years #WildFlowerHour

Spiney winged stems, leaves and bracts. A formidable Spear Thistle easing itself through the fencing on the Culverthorpe Hall Estate, Lincolnshire #WildFlowerHour

Large enough to be seen from my passing car. A Parasol is up on the Wood Lane verge #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Silk Button Spangle Galls served on a Pedunculate Oak leaf platter by the brilliantly named Gall Wasp Neuroterus numismalus #WildWebsWednesday

Garden Cosmos, an absolute #WildFlowerHour gate crasher amongst the Mugwort, Canadian Fleabane, Greater Plantain and White Campion along the path side edge on an urban green space.

Viper’s-bugloss a tiny bit of blue in an overcast Lincolnshire sky #WildFlowerHour

Jostling for your attention. A flurry of activity amongst the Fairy Inkcaps on #FungiFriday

On Top of the World. A pollen covered Ivy Bee foraging amongst the loaded anthers of Common Ivy #WildWebsWednesday

The last of the Purple Toadflax leaves consumed by the last of the remaining Toadflax Brocade moth caterpillars on a plant that was removed from the driveway as a vulnerable self sown seedling and planted in the garden. #WildWebsWednesday

Sickening to see a clump of monofilament line trapped around and damaging the dorsal fin of this Risso's Dolphin off Trondra today. Monofilament is a silent killer of wildlife. Whoever discarded this clearly just doesn't care. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife #marinelitter

White Bryony threading its way up, down and all around Black Horehound #WildFlowerHour

Pushed up through the leaf litter. A pristine Fly Agaric at the edge of urban green space woodland on a former sand & gravel extraction pit #FungiFriday

Up for desert. A Yellow-tail moth caterpillar I think, circumnavigating one of the many blackberries amongst its preferred shrub food plants of Hawthorn and Blackthorn in a Lincolnshire hedgerow. #WildWebsWednesday

Field Maple samaras tumbling about at the field edge #WildflowerHour

My current #FavouritePlant is the Scarlet Pimpernel that has found its way into the gravel bed at the end of our front garden path #WildflowerHour

Shaggy Parasol amongst the deadwood and leaf litter in a pocket of urban green space woodland #FungiFriday

Not truly #WildWebsWednesday but this Small Copper is only one of three I have seen so far this season. This one nectared Sedum and the white form of Valerian for a couple of days in my wildlife garden

Seven-spot Ladybird finding its way around the lip of my lunchtime enamel mug

A spiked burr like #Seedheads of Wood Avens hooked for animal dispersal #WildFlowerHour

A somewhat worn out Leafcutter Bee embedded in a Field Scabious flower #WildWebsWednesday