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Brimstone butterflies appeared in the last week in March this year followed by those below in sequence order from the first week in April.
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
This particular fungi is only found growing on dead or dying Conifer trees the top being hairy white with the underside violet to brown.
Violet Fir Bracket
(Trichaptum abietinium)
Violet Fir Bracket (Trichaptum abietinium) - Close up
Leafy Brain (Tremella foliacea)
Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica)
Blushing Bracket (Daedaleopsis confragosa)
Blushing Bracket (Daedaleopsis confragosa)
Turkeytail (Trametese Versicolor)
Turkeytail (Trametese Versicolor)
Yellow Field Cap (Bolbitius titubans)
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.
Lepraria finkii - Close up
St James Church - Weethley
Acarospora fuscata & Xanthoria calcicola
Acarospora fuscata - Close up
St Mary and All Saints - Haselor.
Lepraria incana - Close up
Psilolechia lucida - Close up
St Mary Magdalen Church - Great Alne
Caloplaca flavescens (Variospora flavescens)
VC33 - East Gloucestershire Lichen
VC33 - East Gloucestershire Churchyard Lichen
St Peters Church - Welford on Avon
Psilolechia lucida - Close up
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
Erythricium aurantiacum on Physcia adscendens
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Long tailed Tit & Goldcrest.
b) Hare
c) Young Muntjac Deer
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