Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.
Animals
Roe Deer
Birds
Female Mallard & Chicks
Female Greylag Goose & Chicks
Common Pheasant
Lesser black-backed gull
Butterflies
Red Admiral Butterfly
Painted Lady Butterfly
Speckled Wood Butterfly
Damselflies
Beautiful Demoiselle Male Immature
Banded Demoiselle Male
Insects - General
Seven-Spot Ladybird
Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Woundwort Shieldbug (Eysarcoris venustissimus)
Woundwort Shieldbug (Eysarcoris venustissimus)
Scorpion Fly
St Mark's Flies mating (Bibo marci)
Young queen common wasp
Spiders
Funnelweb Spider (Agelena labyrinthica)
Funnelweb Spider (Agelena labyrinthica) - Close up
This particular spider builds a horizontal surface web with a central funnel linked to other hidden funnels below similar to a labyrinth where it hides its egg sac.
Fungi
Dryad's Saddle (Polyporus squamosus)
Algae
Trentepohlia alga - Close up
Slime moulds
False puffball (Reticularia lycoperdon) in its reproductive phase as a white 'swelling' on standing dead trees particularly in the spring.
Wild Plants
Wild Garlic outnumbering the Bluebells in this wood
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.
Non-Churchyard lichens
Graphis scripta
Graphis scripta - Close up
Caloplaca holocarpa - Close up
Caloplaca holocarpa - Close up K+ve
Physcia adscendens
Flavoparmelia caperata
Punctelia subrudecta
Phlyctis argena
Ramalina fastigiata
Evernia Prunastri
VC37 Hereford & Worcestershire
Physcia aipolia
Physcia aipolia - Close up
Lecanora polytropa
Lecanora polytropa - Close up
Lecanora albella
Lecanora albella -Close up 1
Lecanora albella -Close up 2 - C-ve Test
Ramalina fastigiata
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Holly Blue Butterfly
b) Cuckoo
c) Red Kite
d) Little Egret