#ThickTrunkTuesday the 'medusa' oak last night as the sun was sinking, just a few golden leaves starting to show. #trees #Lancashire

#TitliTuesday and #TuesdayBlue combined with a pair of common blue #butterflies at #winterbournehg last Sunday, the female with her orange wing edge and blue body on the left and the all blue male on the right. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-westmids.bsky.social

#ThickTrunkTuesday... Are we being watched? A huge tree with a sunbeam smile from Sunday in #Birmingham. #trees #vitaminN

#TuesdayBlue from #winterbournehg with a fabulous blue flower, I think a type of morning glory 'Convolvulus tricolor' looking wonderful in the sunshine. #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #WestMidlands

#ThickTrunkTuesday from #winterbournehg at the weekend and one of their sequioa growing very tall. #trees #vitaminN #Birmingham

#JoinMeOnMyWalk from beautiful #winterbournehg yesterday. Glorious blue skies, fabulous #flowers, beautiful #butterflies, amazing autumn colours and with my lovely young men. My house is so quiet tonight. 😔 @photohour.bsky.social #WestMidlands

It's a #butterfly day! 🤩😍🎉🦋 One of two red admiral seen after work today, both nectaring on ivy flowers some distance apart. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN

#MushroomMonday Beautiful perfect russala seen in #Lancashire last week. Look at those gills 😍 I really enjoy taking photos of mushrooms #fungi #mushrooms #vitaminN

#MacroMonday with a beautiful small copper seen at #winterbournehg yesterday, one of two seen but they were so well camouflaged there could well have been more enjoying the beautiful gardens. @macrohour.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Leptember #Birmingham

#MagentaMonday Fabulous zinnias seen at #winterbournehg yesterday. Like a ballet dancer with a tiara. #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #Birmingham

#Wildflowerhour from #Lancashire this week, yesterday deluge meant slim pickings! Enjoy acorns, spindle fruit, ivy flowers and hawthorn, and whilst invasive balsam plays a part in helping #bees this time of year. If only it could be contained! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Great run down to deliver the lads at Uni, all went smoothly so we enjoyed a picnic together in local gardens, joined by small copper and #CommonBlue #butterflies. Great to see! @savebutterflies.bsky.social #WestMidlands #winterbournehg

Sunny #SundayYellow with #butterflies enjoying yellow #flowers this September. Taking my 'boys' back to Uni today after a wonderful summer together. 🥲 I shan't miss their mess but I will miss their lovely company. Very proud of the young men they've become. #positivity #joy

Oh what a wet day in #Lancashire. Hasn't given up all day, so here's my #dahlias just now, shining with raindrops. #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

#SaturdayMotivation Shades of #Autumn captured this week, loving the rich reds and golds coming through. What will you find this weekend? #vitaminN #Nature

I'm not a fan of invasive balsam, the rate & height that it grows is too fast for our smaller native wildflowers to compete with as it crowds their light, but this time of year it's useful for #bees yesterday I captured this one leaving the flower @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#SaturdayMorning #BlackAndWhiteMacro with a beautiful backlit garden spider in my garden this week. @macrohour.bsky.social #bnwmacro

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Fabulous #autumn finds, #butterflies #flowers #fungi from my lunch walk today, so much colour to delight in. @photohour.bsky.social #vitaminN #Lancashire

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 What a #comma beauty enjoying the flowers in my warm but cloudy lunch walk in #Lancashire today. I'm very lucky to be able to wander in lovely gardens, which are a magnet for #butterflies. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Leptember #vitaminN

#FlowersOnFriday Well my #dahlias really weren't keen on the hot weather, but now it's cooled and damp they are magical! #Dahlia perception with it's wonderful white tips, and my red unknown Asda buy that is prolific! #DahliaLove #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

#FungiFriday from #Lancashire, with all the recent rain wakening fly agarics, at first I thought I'd found an apple core (top right) The perfect looking photos are one side of the same one, bottom right revealed it had been launched! 🐌#mushrooms #fungi

#FlutterbyFriday with those seen yesterday in #Lancashire. Blessed to see red admiral, painted lady, small tortoiseshell, large white and speckled wood despite cloudy skies. 😍🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #vitaminN #butterflies

#FungiFriday with the delightfully named 'plums and custard' seen this week in #Lancashire, because of their pink caps with 'custard line'. Please note I take photos only and don't condone eating any wild #mushrooms unless you are an expert!

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Despite being overcast with drizzle threatening, the #butterflies were making the most of it on my lunch walk, which had a very pink feeling from roses, fuschias & other #flowersonfriday to pink rhubarb & custard #mushrooms! #Lancashire @photohour.bsky.social

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Delighted to see a number of #butterflies out and about this lunch time including this beautiful red admiral, still looking very fresh. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire

#InsectThursday with a red admiral and a comma sharing tea together yesterday. #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social #butterflies

#InsectThursday from 19th September last year and a very good model in the firm of a Southern hawker #dragonfly. Look at those eyes! 😍 @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #ThursdayThrowback

#InsectThursday with a large white from yesterday, drying out after a dreadfully wet few days in #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social #vitaminN #butterflies

#ThursdayThrowback to June and our wonderful trip to #Scotland, in particular the #Fife coast, taking in the Falkirk Kelpies, Stirling Castle, Crail Harbour, Morton Lochs, Cambo Gardens, the Isle of May and a sail round Bass Rock along the way. Incredible wildlife. @photohour.bsky.social

#JoinMeOnMyWalk A true mix of everything today, damp lunch walk, blue sky stroll after work, beautiful flowers, bright mushrooms, changing leaves and butterflies. #Autumn certainly is colourful to fill our souls before winter! #Lancashire @photohour.bsky.social

It's a #butterfly day! 🤩😍🎉🦋 So pleased the sun came out after a miserable start til late lunch. It peeped out in #Lancashire from around 3 so I popped in the garden after work and was s delighted to see this red admiral and comma grabbing tea together. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #joy

My first #flyagaric of the season..... 🥲 What a beauty! I'll just leave this here. #WildWebsWednesday #fungi #Mushrooms #Lancashire #today

Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday with these beauties in the Dianne Oxberry memorial Blue Peter garden on #SalfordQuays. A beautiful young lady, known for her TV weather forecasting ,who passed far too soon. #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

#WildWebsWednesday A detour on my way home from work found very chunky birch boletes! It's been very dry in #Lancashire until the last fortnight, so I was pleased to see the #mushroom season getting going! 🍄 #Fungi

Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday. Horribly wet and windy outside but a local gardens multiflora #roses are rising to the challenge, this one taken yesterday. #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

#WildWebsWednesday Fabulous fallen leaf yesterday. When I've posted autumn leaves in the past I get comments about it being dead. I'm celebrating the life of the tree & this 'dead' leaf will decompose providing nutrients for the tree and safe overwintering for bugs. #Lancashire #Autumn

Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday. Horribly wet and windy outside but my neighbour's #roses are rising to the challenge, this one taken yesterday. #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN #Lancashire

#JoinMeOnMyWalk My on foot commute today, much better day today, I got soaked yesterday and had to use the hand dryers at work to sort my trousers out! Such an autumnal feel in the colours that took my eye today. Sadly no butterflies seen. @photohour.bsky.social #Lancashire

Seems I caused a little chaos yesterday posting a European robin as I'm over in England! So here's one with a brighter chest from last winter up at #SizerghCastle. Our robins are around 5 inches so half the size of American/Canadian and sing a beautiful song. They are very friendly! #BritishBirds

#TuesdayBlue from May this year and a spectacular trip to Llandudno and the #GreatOrme, with a male and female silver studded blue caernesis flirting near a totally oblivious swollen thigh beetle. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #TitliTuesday

#ThickTrunkTuesday with another giant treasure up at #SizerghCastleNT estate the weekend before last. @nationaltrust.org.uk #trees #SouthCumbria

#TitliTuesday with the #butterflies I've encountered this last week; painted lady, speckled wood, large white, small tortoiseshell, red admiral, comma. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN

#ThickTrunkTuesday with a touch of autumn showing from #SizerghCastleNT estate, the weekend before last. @nationaltrust.org.uk #trees #SouthCumbria

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Total washout in Lancashire today so let's go back to 14th september 2023 and some beautiful sunny sights instead! #MondayMemories @photohour.bsky.social #vitaminN

#MushroomMonday on a grassy bank on my wet walk home. I'm thinking waxcaps for the bottom 4, but not bright enough to be snowy. Anyone else dusting off their books to remind themselves of ID??? #fungi #Lancashire #vitaminN

#MondayMagic Since my mum passed away nearly 4 years ago I seem to always notice robins. Yesterday we took my eldest son for a birthday experience, with my dad too. This beautiful robin appeared on the fence & stayed singing to us throughout. Thank you Mum. (Mr Wonderful's photo) #Lancashire

#MacroMonday Beautiful bee hiding in the pollen fronds on Saturday on #SalfordQuays Such a beauty. Hope it brightens a very blustery and wild day outside! @macrohour.bsky.social #bees #vitaminN

#MushroomMonday My first deceivers of the year on the left I think, gorgeous gills, plus redlead roundheads on the right seen Friday/Sunday. #Lancashire #fungi #Mushrooms #vitaminN

Too hard picking one, so I have a top 3! Firmly in my 1st place, carline thistle. I adore these stunning flowers with their golden centre surrounded by pink/purple ring of tiny flowers, smaller than most thistles #Wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #bloomscrolling

Too hard picking one, so I have a top 3! In 2nd place, the stunning Grass of Parnassus at #WaitbyGreenriggs #Cumbria in August with translucent petals and intricate centres. #Wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #bloomscrolling