Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.
Birds
Butterflies
Fungi
Boeremia hedericola is a micro-fungus which produces large distinctive dark rimmed spots on the leaves of Ivy. The spots produces tiny brown fruiting bodies which release spores. The tiny spores are spread to other leaves through rain drops splashing onto the leaves.
Ladybirds
Slime Moulds
Trees
Telling Blackthorn & Hawthorn trees apart in spring can be made by the Blossom/Leaf sequence.
With Blackthorn the Blossom comes first followed by the leaves, for the Hawthorn the leaves appear first followed by the blossom.
Woodland Wild Flowers
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..
Lichen
VC36- Herefordshire - Birds
The Mandarin duck now native in Southern England actually builds it nest in a tree. Once the eggs are hatched the female encourages the chicks to drop to ground level then they return to the water for safety.
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Pair of Goosander ducks and Heron.
b) Fallow, Roe & Muntjac deer.