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I have pinned this down before but can't remember the result. A horizontal set of holes in an Elm sapling. Any ideas?

I just hope that decent people can stop this.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I tend to avoid drawing attention to political stuff these days, it is too wearing, but just read this. Terryifying...

Candlesnuff

Obsidentify gives this as a likely worldwide rarity. It is a Coral fungus. Does anyone have any comments?

A fresh Lawyers Wig fungus

youtu.be/bGu0rofa0nw?... A ponds project in Essex. @norfolkponds.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Lots of wisdom to be gleaned from other cultures, mostly centred around slowing down from modern living drivers I think.

I'm not sure which these are, but I presume they are waxcaps.

As I opened my window blinds this morning.

I keep finding runner beans, and I will savour each one. It's a while till the next crop

Lovely paintings today at Frinton on Sea

Resin beads on a Hawthorn, and an unseasonal Common Hawksbill.

A Bronze Carabid beetle disturbed in our pond maintenance work today.

Creeping St John's Wort, flowering way out of season

Benfleet Downs view. Middle distance is Canvey Island, with Kent visible behind. A great bit of landscape and habitat on a grey day

Another Clouded Yellow today, at the allotment in Clacton today. @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social

I recommend this to anyone who would like to get a picture of Ukraine as a nation. youtu.be/ZIVJu4aKOEc?...

I have just been visiting the Roman Circus site near Colchester. It is very quiet but an interesting place to visit to understand the place of Colchester as a Roman capital.

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

Big numbers of Hornets around now. Are they males anyone?

A Clouded Yellow at Great Holland pits today, my second record there this year.

Clouded Yellow beat all comers on today's transect at Martins Farm Country Park, probably the last I will do this year. CY 5 MB 2 SH 2 CB 2 BA 1 GV 1

I was surprised by the group of storks that rose from the middle of the mil pond at Knepp. Well over 20 I would say.

I returned from Sussex today. I stopped at a very good local nature reserve near Horsham. Caught this:

Knepp, the vegetation structure bears some resemblance to the Kalahari. It's big mind!

My best Sourdough loaf yet.

I have both a hedgehog box and I made a snug shelter under my shed, but twice nowI have seen it now on the concrete floor of my shed, and never in the custom places. Indeed I have never seen it at night out and s out.

An encouraging story here : youtu.be/NHMJVXiWBEA?...

The lovely River Tees

Today's Wall Browns at Great Holland pits . Small numbers have appeared now for 3 years. If I remember correctly the previous colonies finally dwindled to nothing in 2008, having been very regular.

I am delighted that I had not 1 but 2 Wall Brown is. The female rebuffed the male as far as I can see, she was previously mated. She went on apparently laying eggs.

European hornet apparently after pollen. I sometimes wonder if the hang around Ivy for ambushing bees, butterflies or wasps but this was after pollen. Cannot take nectar I think.

'Little fluffy clouds' Today on my Martins Farm butterfly transect.

Good morning good people.

@steveowen44.bsky.social Hello Steve, I came across this. It was the Fellowship trip to Ross on Wye. Andy Cotton and Rowan there. I think I have others.

Sea Aster in an unusual form I think. The flowers, which are petalled, are outside the sea wall, where they would normally have no petals, and the flowers are clustered. I saw no Sea Aster, mining bees.

A trip to Tollesbury Wick today. Lots of House Martins on the move.

I was surprised to see a couple of Gatekeepers today.

No surprise there.

So many headline writers (and others) use such glaringly bad communication.

From seed scattered by birds last year. Self sown.

Brown Banded Carders bumblebee, is doing well in Essex. This is are Wrabness

I recorded a record 6 Clouded Yellows today on my transect ay Martins Farm Country Park.

I was asked to do some filming a long time ago at Colne Point with my phone and had no idea that this had been compiled and put out there. Enjoy. youtu.be/5pI1a8w3CmA?...

My 3rd Clouded Yellow of the year, at Martins Farm Country Park this time. Also a Willow Emerald.

Courting Brown Argus today and Small Coppers yesterday.