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Think this is Hairy Bitter-cress, up on the South Downs. #WildflowerHour #WhiteFlowers

Spotted some white Violets this week. #WildflowerHour #WhiteFlowers

Lots of patches of Violets around Blackcap on the #SouthDowns #WildflowerHour

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in shaping civilisation

STILL seeing this at my local garden centre. Arrrgh! Peat needs to stay in the ground. It's an essential store of carbon, critical for biodiversity & under threat. Demand peat-free compost! And complain if you see peat on sale. The Royal Horticultural Society agrees: www.rhs.org.uk/advice/peat

Synchronised bovine display team. #SouthDowns

First time I’ve seen the bristly little Common Eyelash. Up at Blackcap on the South Downs. 🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Japan Letter Writing Day, Stamp Sheet, 1999. Illustrated by Dick Bruna designreviewed.com/artefacts/ja... #dickbruna #illustration

The lovely Cuckooflowers are back. Very fond of these and they are a friendly face scattered along miles of muddy trudging. #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling #Sussex

Some graphic design gems in this thread…

Very delicate looking white Violet in a SouthDowns hedgerow. #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling

Lots of little Violets around in the woods and hedgerows. #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling

The tads have polled. #Spring #Sussex

from a recent Private Eye

Dew drops suspended on a small cobweb in the woods. #Sussex

During a short spell of sunshine a pristine golden Dandelion stood out like a beacon surrounded by old brown bracken. #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling

Tiny purple Ground Ivy flowers are appearing. #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling

First Bluebells I’ve seen this year in deepest, muddiest mid Sussex. #Wildflowers

A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be. Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5. #mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus

Introducing the winner of our People’s Choice vote for our annual photo competition! Drumroll please… 🥁 'Feeling Sheepish' has taken the top spot - congratulations to Ian Cairns! Thank you to everyone who voted 🐏

Slime mold patterns on paper. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends #natureart

New Bonnie Prince with a lovely video. #BonniePrinceBilly

Old hawthorn #trees in the last light of the day. #ThickTrunkTuesday #treeclub #ClassicMono #landscape #EastCoastKin #photography

Some more signs of an approaching spring this week. Lots of Daffodils dotted around, buds, nettles and Bumblebees. #Sussex #WildflowerHour

Deep in a wood along a very muddy track I eventually spotted this Dog Violet, providing a tiny spot of colour. Just the one. #WildflowerHour

I missed #WildflowerHour but have spotted some some firsts-of-the-year this week including Primroses.

A small patch of Blackthorn flowers with the South Downs forming the horizon. #Wildflowers #SignsOfSpring #Sussex

Frogspawn in a woodland pond. #SignsOfSpring #Sussex

Tiny spiders exploring a Scarlet Elf Cup. 🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

In breakfast room in hotel in #mumbai & you can’t imagine the joy & relief I’m feeling right now . Congratulations Hannah Spencer & the Greens 💚, the media & political establishment threw everything against them ( & will continue to do so 😵‍💫) but the message of change & hope won through 💚🙌🏼

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out. Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Margaret Tchatcheuse 🤟

Shadow Man I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day. If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor. A great place to capture shadows.

Empty sporangia of Badhamia utricularis. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #SlimeMould

I’m thankful for my #fungifriends here on BlueSky. My family wasn’t nearly as excited as I was about today’s finds.

Here are the results of some of my latest conversations with wool concerning the topic of lichens. If you want to see them in real life along with the work of many other Yorkshire makers, then pop along to @Fabrication Crafts , Stonegate, York and support our local artists #york #madeinyorkshire

Turkeytail making a handsome display. 🍄 #FungiFriends

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

A few Blackthorn flowers in the hedgerow. #Wildflowers #Sussex

Have people seen the band Angine De Poitrine yet? They a two-piece kind of math-rocky band with amazing costumes and gimmicks. It's an amazing combo of skill and spectacle that you should check out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi... #mathrock #anginedepoitrine

Wow.

Sunglass. #SouthDowns

Happy Valentine’s Day! #invertebrate

Foto forage for fungi Friday. 🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #FotoForage

Saw a moth lying on its side in a puddle. Carried out a twig-based rescue mission and left him in a sunny spot. Think it’s a Spring Usher. www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/agriopis-leucophaearia/ #Moths

Spotted my first Ladybird of the year yesterday. #Ladybird

From a distance I thought I’d discovered a new type of magical white apple… on closer inspection. Nuh. #MagicApple