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| Marsh Tit ♀ , Poecile palustris |
On March 17th I joined Peter at Jamie Burston's butterfly project at Roedale Valley Allotments, Brighton. We shifted a large quantity of soil to expose the chalk ready for other volunteers to plant chalk loving butterfly food plants two days later. Afterwards Jamie showed me a White-letter Hairstreak egg on the branch of an elm.
On March 19th I was able to locate a Red-belted Bracket in Binsted Wood, thanks to Andrew & Natasha who had found it a few days before.
I have returned to Rewell Wood several times to try to get better shots of the pair of Marsh Tits. On 22nd they came down to the path, together with a Nuthatch.
On 23rd I attended a biological mapping workshop in Midhurst, then visited Iping and Stedham Commons where I found about 12 Common Lizards hibernating under one log, and a single one under another.
Brighton allotment:
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| Peter and Jamie |
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| White-letter Hairstreak egg, Satyrium w-album |
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| White-letter Hairstreak egg |
Binsted Wood:
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| Birch Polypore, Piptoporus betulinus |
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| Birch Polypore |
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| Birch Polypores |
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| Blushing Bracket, Daedaleopsis confragosa |
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Glue Crust, Hymenochaete corrugata
this fungus glues branches together |
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Green Elfcup, Chlorociboria aeruginascens agg.
the fruiting body is a cup. |
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| Haircap Moss, Polytrichum commune |
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| Haircap Moss |
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| Marsh Tit ♂, Poecile palustris |
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| Red-belted Bracket, Fomitopsis pinicola |
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| Red-belted Bracket on Silver Birch |
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| Red-belted Bracket |
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| fruiting body under Red-belted Bracket |
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| underside of Red-belted Bracket |
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| Treecreeper, Carthia familiaris |
Rewell Wood:
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| Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa |
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| Marsh Tits ♀ + ♂ , Poecile palustris |
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| Marsh Tit ♀ |
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| Marsh Tit ♀ |
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| Marsh Tit ♀ |
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| Marsh Tit ♂ |
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| Nuthatch, Sitta europaea |
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| spider with web, Coelotes species |
Stedham Common:
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| Common Lizard hibernating under log, Zootoca vivipara |
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| Common Lizards hibernating under log |
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| Cup Lichen, Cladonia species |
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| Cup Lichen, Cladonia species |
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| Flat-backed Millipede, Polydesmus species |
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| Ground beetle, Nebria species |
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| fungus, Skeletocutis amorpha |
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| Slime Mould, Myxomycetes species |
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| Swan's-neck Thyme-moss, Mnium hornum |
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| yellow Slime Mould, Physarum polycephalum |
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| Yellowing Curtain Crust, Stereum subtomentosum |
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| Badger footprint, Meles meles |
