Vinny Blood

Enough is enough. You know where I'll be...😉

What was that about an Arctic Blast? We have Wall Lizards basking in sunny Bournemouth!😜

Unexpected find at home in Bournemouth today. Lesser Celandine (cultivated, pale form) already in flower 🙂

Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) making a very late appearance in the car park at work in Central Bournemouth 05.12.24.

Real mixed bag of weather in Bournemouth recently. Snowed on Thursday, battered by Storm Bert at weekend - and today it's balmy enough for Wall Lizards to bask!

@Jamiewa50042387 Crikey that's early! Will have to check my local patch.

First winter heliotropes (Petasites fragrans) of the year , I noticed um in the yard after I jet washed my truck ready for an MOT next week .

@TrisNorton Remember this from my horticultural days about 40 years ago! Grown as an alpine house treasure 🙂

@Jamiewa50042387 Great conditions for fungi like this right now. Here's some growing on mossy bricks near where I live in Bournemouth 🙂

Coprinellus disseminatus .

@TrisNorton @BSBIbotany It's a great site for it!

@StevePa46290725 Nice little haul 🙂

A few more from todays grassland fungi forage with the kids, in the New Forest #fungi #newforest

@SajadAlipour98 I love your posts of so many wonderful species in their natural environment. Keep living the dream!🙂

45 years ago tomorrow, 7th October, the most recent confirmed Oxfordshire Ghost was found by Neville Diserens. After more recent rain it seemed sensible to check the three main areas of the site, which had decent numbers of fungi, but no 👻 😞. My last search of the year 👍

I did not realise it was U.K. Fungus day on 5th October! Luckily I was in the New Forest searching for them. Highlight without a doubt is this rare Coral Tooth (Hericium coralloides(m) - like frozen waterfall 🙂

@SteveTandy3 Think I can make out the tail on the one on the right - looks like Coypu.

@SteveTandy3 Are they Beaver or Coypu?

I certainly didn't expect to see beavers in the Vitava river in Prague

Caladenia pusilla (tiny fingers) near the Genoa River, VIC. Only 2 flowers out in late-Sept here -first time I've seen this v. small / easily over-looked orchid in E. Gippsland. Tip of my little finger here for scale - flowers are tiny (common name checks out!) #orchids #ozplants

Allan Chard & I went for a walk on Watercress Farm, North Somerset today following a report of a single Willow Emerald Damselfly there previously . We found 5 pairs, 10 individuals, both male and female, and ovipositing into the bark of a small tree. @UKdragonflies @AllanChard

Craneflies numbers seem to be good following the damp summer. This one in the New Forest looked amazing on a cool, autumnal morning.

Pink sun orchids (Thelymitra carnea) near Genoa, VIC. This very widespread sp. occurs in both AUS + NZ and is usually one of the first sun orchids out in E. Gippsland. Most early flowers at this location were light pink - with the odd darker pink form #orchids #inthefield #spring

Just read the very sad news of the sudden death of Alan Gendle, one of the nicest, most generous and committed orchidophiles I knew. An absolute encyclopaedia of knowledge on Cumbrian orchids, he will be terribly missed. 😢😢😢😢 RIP, Alan.