April 2026 – Warwickshire Wildlife/Nature

Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.

Animals

Fallow Deer Stags

Fallow Deer Hinds

Birds

Pied Wagtail

Butterflies

Male Orange Tip Butterfly

Female Orange Tip Butterfly

Speckled Wood Butterfly

Insects

Red-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus lepidarius)

Liverworts

Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata)

Rusts

Melampsora populnea rusr on Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)

Slime Moulds

Reticularia lycoperdo seems to be very prolific on log-ends and tree trunks this month.

Reticularia lycoperdo

Trees

These are the winged seed heads (called samaras) from the blossom of the Wych Elm tree with the seeds in the centre. When dispersed by the wind these need to germinate within a week if not eaten first by rodents and birds.

Wych Elm (Ulnus Glabra)

Woodland Plants

Bluebells

Bluebell

Greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)

Wild Garlic

Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)

White Dead Nettle (Lamium album)

Pendulous Sedge (Carex pendula)

Lichen

Lichen are only recorded at each new OS Grid location (hover for Grid Ref). They are then entered on the British Lichen Society spreadsheet and submitted for their Warwickshire VC38 Lichen database and Lichen mapping.

To give a sense of scale all the lichen photographs noted specifically as close up use the scale of the photographed scale bar below which is in millimetres i.e. 1mm to 3mm..