Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.
Definately still Fungi time due to the persistant wet weather.
Birds
Fungi
The Wrinkled Peach Fungus (Rhodotus palmatus) is pinky peach, wrinkled and measures up to about 8cm across, convex at first and then flattened. The Cap starts off pink then turns peach/apricot in colour the gills are also pink. Found in autumn and early winter on dead Elm Scarce due to the Dutch Elm disease which arrived in the south of England in the 1960s and since then has spread across much of the British mainland, massively reducing the elm population.
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 close up photographs below use the scale of the photographed scale below which is in millimeters i.e. 1mm to 3mm..
Non-Churchyard Lichen
Lichen directly below found on young oak near the trunk base.
Churchyard Lichen
Haeslor - St Mary and All Saints Church
Lichen directly below found on a very old Yew Tree on the trunk bark.
Spernall - Former St Leonards Church
Lichen directly below found on a mature Yew Tree on the trunk bark.
Studley - Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary Church
Lichen directly below found on a mature Yew Tree on the trunk bark.
Weethley - St James Church
Lichen directly below found on a mature Yew Tree on the trunk bark.
Wixford - St Milburga Church
Lichen directly below found on a mature Yew Tree on the trunk bark.
VC37 - Worcestershire
Non-Churchyard Lichens
Churchyard lichens - St Peters - Abbots Morton
Lichen directly below found on a mature Yew Tree on the trunk bark.
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Roe & Fallow Deer.
b) Red Kite.