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Nature Watch, Your Flora and Fauna Photos and Stories
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MRC
·It's a fungus but that's as far as I've got identifying it. 15.000 species of fungi found in the British Isles and this is not in any list of common ones that I've found. Size can be gauged from the supermarket receipt behind it.
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NOTSHARP
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samweldspoorly
·Recent trip to Sabah, Borneo with NatGeo.
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hen
·Bronze age petroglyphs in Hvittingfoss Norway
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pdxleaf
·Da birds...
Near Troutdale airport, Sandy River, Oregon
Near Troutdale airport, Sandy River, Oregon
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hen
·Iron age burial site in Larvik Norway. The stones are arranged in two boat formations, the biggest is 25 meters long and the tallest stones are almost 4 meters high. Besides are 3 circles of smaller stones.
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samweldspoorly
·Thanks for the fantastic pictures, what kind of cat is that?
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NOTSHARP
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MRC
·A local intermittent spring last seen in 2005 has started flowing and has flooded fields and made one road impassible until emergency drainage was excavated..
So let's look around the mud on the margins
Carnivoran species of some sort
Look at those claw marks, badger for sure.
But what is this right next to the badger prints?
Not badger droppings, but 1/2 meter away here's the culprit
Muntjac deer, there are lots of them around, two days later and two fields away
Following the new drain we find a culvert under a farm track ready and waiting, just needing to to uncovered.
The spring used to be known as a "winter spring", so it must have flowed more often than it does now. Those are 20th century bricks and a friend of mine who owns Springhead Farm up the hill tells me the water was taken away by a different route before the 20th century.
But let's continue looking around, and
That sett is not abandoned but I won't disturb the badgers.
And a final thought: those stinging nettles about 15cm high are absolutely delicious to eat, better than the best spinach you've ever eaten. The stings are already active at this size so wear gloves, but are destroyed by cooking and safe to eat. Another couple of weeks of growth and the stems are turning woody. This is the weekend to harvest them 😀
So let's look around the mud on the margins
Carnivoran species of some sort
Look at those claw marks, badger for sure.
But what is this right next to the badger prints?
Not badger droppings, but 1/2 meter away here's the culprit
Muntjac deer, there are lots of them around, two days later and two fields away
Following the new drain we find a culvert under a farm track ready and waiting, just needing to to uncovered.
The spring used to be known as a "winter spring", so it must have flowed more often than it does now. Those are 20th century bricks and a friend of mine who owns Springhead Farm up the hill tells me the water was taken away by a different route before the 20th century.
But let's continue looking around, and
That sett is not abandoned but I won't disturb the badgers.
And a final thought: those stinging nettles about 15cm high are absolutely delicious to eat, better than the best spinach you've ever eaten. The stings are already active at this size so wear gloves, but are destroyed by cooking and safe to eat. Another couple of weeks of growth and the stems are turning woody. This is the weekend to harvest them 😀
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hen
·A local intermittent spring last seen in 2005 has started flowing and has flooded fields and made one road impassible until emergency drainage was excavated..
So let's look around the mud on the margins
Carnivoran species of some sort
Look at those claw marks, badger for sure.
But what is this right next to the badger prints?
Not badger droppings, but 1/2 meter away here's the culprit
Muntjac deer, there are lots of them around, two days later and two fields away
Following the new drain we find a culvert under a farm track ready and waiting, just needing to to uncovered.
The spring used to be known as a "winter spring", so it must have flowed more often than it does now. Those are 20th century bricks and a friend of mine who owns Springhead Farm up the hill tells me the water was taken away by a different route before the 20th century.
But let's continue looking around, and
That sett is not abandoned but I won't disturb the badgers.
And a final thought: those stinging nettles about 15cm high are absolutely delicious to eat, better than the best spinach you've ever eaten. The stings are already active at this size so wear gloves, but are destroyed by cooking and safe to eat. Another couple of weeks of growth and the stems are turning woody. This is the weekend to harvest them 😀
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pdxleaf
·I went back to the same spot with my real camera. These were all taken with manual focus Canon FD lens on my Sony. I missed a lot of shots but got a few good ones.
The herons were gone but there were more eagles and osprey. Talked to few people who said there were about 50 eagles two weeks ago when the smelt were running. I need to remember to check on the smelt run next year.
The herons were gone but there were more eagles and osprey. Talked to few people who said there were about 50 eagles two weeks ago when the smelt were running. I need to remember to check on the smelt run next year.
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samweldspoorly
·A ornery polar bear I spotted glacier lounging in the bays of Svalbard.
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Jones in LA
··Not in LA anymore.Some of the creepy things I've encountered on trails in the Santa Monica Mountains. So we all agree, L.A. is a dangerous place.
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pdxleaf
·Some of the creepy things I've encountered on trails in the Santa Monica Mountains. So we all agree, L.A. is a dangerous place.
Like? Great photos for sure
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ErichPryde
··Seamasters ForeverIt's an absolutely beautiful day in South Washington State today. A bald eagle was soaring over my neighborhood (couldn't get a good picture), my tulips are in full bloom, my flowering cherry blossoms are starting to open, and took my youngest to look for rough-skinned newts (T. granulosa) along a small portion of Mill Creek.
Fun fact: rough-skinned newts are very toxic (if eaten. handling can cause mild irritation in some people at best, although I find it a best practice not to handle amphibians much... more for them than me); they produce tetrodotoxin- the same thing that puffer fish are famous for! Very, very little can eat these guys and survive- except for some of the local garter snakes, which have evolved to incorporate the newt's toxin, thus becoming toxic themselves!
Fun fact: rough-skinned newts are very toxic (if eaten. handling can cause mild irritation in some people at best, although I find it a best practice not to handle amphibians much... more for them than me); they produce tetrodotoxin- the same thing that puffer fish are famous for! Very, very little can eat these guys and survive- except for some of the local garter snakes, which have evolved to incorporate the newt's toxin, thus becoming toxic themselves!
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