Common Frog

Wildlife Wednesdays #12

Common Frog - Rana temporaria

A heavily pregnant common frog, caught out in the open on its way to the spawning pools.

Alder Bases

Tree-fetish Tuesday #12

Jellybaby Fungus

Monday Mushroom #12

Jellybaby Fungus - Leotia lubrica

This species has distinctively translucent, yellow flesh, with a texture rather like jellybabies. It is - alas - inedible.

Cloud Banks at Dawn

Scenic Sundays #10

Near Whistlefield, Loch Eck.

Mollusc-riddled

Fencepost of the Week #11

If you like extreme weathering on fenceposts, then the Shetland Islands will hold many a delight for you.

Seal Stretches

Wildlife Wednesdays #11

A harbour seal amusing itself on the shore.

snoozy

bored

interested

banana

anyone looking?

o hai

toe-curl

double toe-curl

flipper curl

yawn upside down

snooze upside down

and some shaky, blurry video of the same:

Birches in the Mist

Tree-fetish Tuesday #11

Bedraggled Ink Caps

Monday Mushroom #11

Ink Cap - Coprinus atramentarius

Inkiness temporarily washed away by the rain.

A Week of Dark Reflections - Part VII

The under-bank.

A Week of Dark Reflections - Part VI

Rimy, estuarine swamp at sun up.

A Week of Dark Reflections - Part V

Sunset, river and rain.

A Week of Dark Reflections - Part IV

& Fencepost of the Week #10

...and the same again with blue sky at high-water.

A Week of Dark Reflections - Part III

Deep and fast-flowing. And dark.

A Week of Dark Reflections - Part II

& Wildlife Wednesdays #10

A Week of Dark Reflections - Part I

& Tree-fetish Tuesday #10

Sycamore on the Echaig in the humid dark of late summer.

Small Brown Mushrooms

Monday Mushroom #10

Rather like the small brown birds - SBB's - beloved of ornithologists, there thousands of species of small brown mushrooms - un-preposessing and really difficult to identify. Here are a couple of my recent failures: I cannot identify either of them.

 Still pretty, though. ^_^

This photo was taken in a beech wood at about 600m up in the eastern Pyrenees, in April.

Glen Massan Sunrise

Scenic Sundays #9

Looking up Glen Massan on a frosty October Morning.

Old, Grey, Weathered

Fencepost of the Week #9

Green-veined White

Wildlife Wednesdays #9

Green-veined White - Artogeia napi

Mossy Rowan Tree

Tree-fetish Tuesday #9

Wham! Rowan tree!

Back-lit Porcelain

Monday Mushroom #9

Porcelain Fungus - Oudemansiella mucida

Taken into the sun, one-handed, while hanging from a branch 3m up a beech tree. Porcelain fungi are beautifully translucent, glistening, pure white mushrooms. Something that this photo fails to show.  

Below is a less dramatically lit shot of the same species:

Summer Evening

Scenic Sundays #8

Tentacular

Fencepost of the Week #8

Scorpion Fly

Wildlife Wednesdays #8

Common Scorpion Fly - Panorpa communis

The spiky red scorpion tail is not a stinger, but a set of claspers used for mating - only males have them.

Willows in the Mist

Tree-fetish Tuesday #8