Joanie McNaughton

Burgundydrop Bonnet, Mycena haematopusa, bit past it's best, but still gorgeous. Bawsinch last week #fungi @scotwildlife.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

Wonderful to see, thank you.

I had the privilege of attending the Scottish Women’s Hospitals end of WWI commemoration in 1998 at Royaumont Abbey, outside Paris. I represented my great aunt who was an ambulance driver on the front.

Was a great day in the sunshine. Was up the Water of Leith. Looking at mostly insects and fungi, but saw a Dipper, Pink-footed Geese overhead and an adult Buzzard with a juvenile calling from trees!

Yeah looks like Fuligo septica, I prefer the common name Flowers of Tan (from the French) or Scrambled Egg Slime Mould. There’s another one called (common name) Dog Sick Slime Mould. No idea what the difference is, probably a microscope job!

Aw, sorry you didn’t see the Spoonbill but Marsh Sandpiper made up for it. Nice collection of sightings too.

Saw the Ring-necked Duck but not the Mandarin. Did you see the female Shoveler there, last year?

😂😂 Local twitching is ok!! There were 5 or 6 Spoonbills about 6 years ago at Buist’s Embankment near Tynningehame. Saw them there but not close.

Not been yet and out all day tomorrow with Edinburgh Nats (ENHS). Might go Sunday or through the week. Hopefully still there. Good luck, hope you see it.

Tiger's Eye, Coltricia perennis, uncommon and localised. Here at Loch an Eilein, #Rothiemurchus, Scots Pine woods #fungi @cairngormsnews.bsky.social

I wondered if this tiny feather might be from Long-tailed Tit, but don't see it on Featherbase under Aegithalos caudatus. Seen yesterday at Bawsinch NR Any ideas? @birdinglothian.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

Striated Earthstar, Geastrum striatum, past its best but nice to see. Also tiny Sessile Earthstar, Geastrum fimbriatum, I haven't seen its 'egg' before. #fungi @scotwildlife.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

Managed to grab an iPhone pic of the (so-called) Harvest Supermoon between banks of cloud. At 7.25pm, we are too low to see it rising any earlier. Harvest time it may be but I don’t get the super bit! @metoffice.gov.uk

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Two #SlimeMoulds at Loch Pityoulish on 20/09/2025. Flowers of Tan aka Scrambled Egg Slime Mould (Fuligo septica) on Scots Pine stump and False Puffball (Reticularia lycoperdon) on dead Birch @cairngormsnews.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

Quite a decent colony when I visited two years ago. I didn’t count plants though.

Nice Pink/Ballerina Waxcap🩷

They were all the way up the trunk, a lovely sight!

Golden Scalycap, Pholiota aurivella, on dead Alder. Nethy Bridge, 24/09/2025 #Fungi #UKFungusDay @edinburghnats.bsky.social

The Common Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, buried under Scaly Tooth Fungus (Sarcodon imbricatus) at Dell Wood, Nethy Bridge 24/09/2025 #Silphidae #CarrionBeetle #Fungi @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

Behind the scenes from our day of filming. Here I’m crouched down in one of the grassland areas looking at an orchid, with camera operator Gavin and producer Charlotte.

Back in June, we hosted a team from #GardenersWorld to share how we’ve been improving the grounds of the National Museums Collection Centre for biodiversity. 🎬 🐞🪰🌿🌼

Catch it here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#NMCCbiodiversity

Watched it last night. Great message being carried to Gardeners World watchers. Nice to see Dorothy in there too! Bravo🙏🏻

4.00pm this afternoon, Amy building up to 60mph gusts just now. #Edinburgh.

😢Just seen news item, I didn't twig ...

Agreed. September was clearly the second peak

Post was from 9 Sept near the coast; was same in our city garden, for once the buddleja was actually behaving like a butterfly bush! But yes agreed, depends on time of year and species. We had a bumper year for recently arrived Holly Blues in 2024; not so much in 2025

Three species: Small Tortoiseshell, Painted Lady and Small White

Three Painted Ladies on stone wall

Small Tortoiseshell twosome

I find this statement @savebutterflies.bsky.social difficult to understand. As far as I'm aware 2025 has been the best for #butterflies for some years: "Despite great weather this summer, the number of butterflies recoded in the Big Butterfly Count only reached average levels." #ukwildlife

Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

Interesting, the books don’t say that about clonal patches. I did spot a few patches during the visit. The plant was itself an “other interesting thing”, I was there looking for toothed fungi. Successfully!

Stunning