Silver Birch - Betula pendular





Juniper Hair Cap (Polytrichum juniperimum) Male plants



Puffball spp?

Willow Warbler singing this morning.



Short burst of Stonechat song flighting.

Tag CloudLandscape, Puffball, Bryophytes, Fungi

Liverwort spp?







Wych Elm - Ulmus glabra









Winter Heliotrope - Petasites fragrans



Woodlouse



One distant Redpoll of a party of thirty in the tops of the Birch, nibbling away.
and
a
Woodcock






Slime Mould?





Bracket Fungus Spp?



Silver Birch - Betula pendula

Tag CloudSlimeMould, Fungi, Redpoll, SilverBirch, Liverwort, WychElm

Alder - Alnus glutinous catkins just about to unfurl





Those delicious new shoots



Bullfinch - Pyrrhula pyrrhula







Coot - Fulica atra



Shoveller - Anser clypeata







Fungi??







Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris



Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudates











Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

At least four Marsh Harriers
A pair of Chinese Water Deer
and
a
Fox

Tag CloudCoot, MarshTit, CherryPlum, Landscape, LongTailedTit, Alder, Bullfinch, Shoveller, Fungi

Oak standards (Quercus robur) with Hazel (Corylus Javellana) understorey.





Bracket Fungi?



Hazel Bark



Red Hazel flower



Male catkins below the female flower.







Hazel - Corylus avellana



Honeysuckle shoots - Lonicera periclymenum

Tag CloudLandscape, Honeysuckle, Fungi, FieldRecording, Oak, Hazel