Wall Lizard

Wildlife Wednesday #44

Podarcis muralis - Common Wall Lizard

I wish Britain had wall lizards - it would substantially enhance my life if the walls of Brighton had these little fellows scurrying about on them whenever the sun was shining.

Pyrenean Toads

Wildlife Wednesday #40

I was in the Pyrenees a couple of years back during the toad breeding season. Horny toads make excellent models.

Bufo bufo - Common Toad

Bufo bufo - Common Toad

Bufo bufo - Common Toad

Bufo bufo - Common Toad

Morel

Monday Mushroom #13

Morel - Morchella esculenta

Morels emerge in the spring, and given how much they sell for, one would hope that they taste delicious. I have found them on a few occasions, but never eaten one.

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.

Black and White and Gecko

Wildlife Wednesdays #6

Moorish Gecko - Tarentola mauritanica

A moorish gecko catching a few rays at the mouth of its lair - a large letterbox. Moorish geckos thrive in urban environments.