Monday 25 October 2021

Attingham and its Environs

 

Stags horn fungus

Raven in cypress.

Below, a fallow doe. 



Poor photo of a stoat. They are so quick!





Female stonechat, nuthatch and little egret.

Saturday 16 October 2021

Unexpectedly Warm Day

 



Female stonechat.



Starlings and linnets.



Fly agaric, coming to a silver birch tree near you soon.

Sunday 10 October 2021

Autumn Days

 

Thrilled to see this female Green woodpecker.







Great Crested newt.

Green sandpiper.

Tuesday 21 September 2021

The Last Voles of Summer?

 


Around this month, I begin to get fewer and fewer sightings so I stop going down to the brook till next Spring. Water voles don't hibernate, but they do become fossorial, that is move underground, and eat roots and doze through the cold weather.

Saturday 18 September 2021

Aqualate Mere and Whixall Moss

Small frog and extremely distant marsh harrier.


Fox and grey wagtail.


Black darters, female and male.


Sallow moth and raft spider.


Shield bug nymph.



 Toad and slow worm.

Saturday 11 September 2021