Events

Various fungi on an old oak stump   Click for photo

Amazing display of fungi on a tree stump   Click for photo  

Large flocks of wood pigeon, 12+ crossbill, 50-ish linnet(?), goshawk toying with a crow, 4 cormorant, small numbers of redwing and fieldfare

Ring ouzel (1st winter) Click for photo, mistle thrush, fieldfare,redwing, blackbird, 20+ brambling, chaffinch, lesser redpoll, a few stonechat and Dartford warbler, 400-ish wood pigeon heading south

Cluster of fenugreek stalkball Phleogena faginea , a tiny basidiomycete fungus growing on tree bark   Click for photo

Ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri on birdfeeder    Click for photo    

Hibernating brown long-eared bat found beneath ridge tile during repair works. Taken into temporary care. (A second brought in on 17th, then both released)   Click for photo

Male common darter

Common darter

Male blackcap