Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.
Animals
Birds
Butterflies
Insects - Damselflies
The first sightings (2nd week of May) of Damselflies this year.
Insects - Beetles
Insects - Flies
Fungi
The first three Tripe Fungus photographs were taken in a damp well shaded area within a local Wood and are very soft almost gelatinious in nature. The last photograph however was located at the Wood's exterior perimeter track and exposed to strong sunlight making the fungus quite thin and rubbery in comparison.
Slime Moulds
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.
This is the first VC38 Warwickshire sighting of Pertusaria leioplaca since the (1960-2009) notification period.
Churchyard Lichens
St Mary the Virgin Church - Kinwarton
VC37- Worcestershire - Lichen
Lichenicolous Fungi
Lichenicolous 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.
VC37- Worcestershire - Lichenicolous Fungi
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Muntjac Deer
b) Pair of House Martins
c) Green Woodpecker