Chris Ryde

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Happy Birthday to Charles Darwin! 🎉
Thank you for creating the field of evolutionary biology.

A collage of colourful fungi seen in the woods this week. Lots of jelly fungi are enjoying the rain, White Brain, Yellow Brain and Black Witches Butter perfectly describe their gelatinous folded appearance. Whilst Turkey Tails look exactly like turkey tails! Occasionally I will stumble upon a perfect little a vivid little red cup, the Scarlet Elfcup and they are always an absolute joy to find!

For #MushroomMonday #fungifriends I’m still seeing plenty of winter #fungi in the woods at work, at least something is enjoying the rain! White Brain, Yellow Brain, Black Witches Butter, Turkey Tail, fresh Velvet Shanks & beautiful vibrant Scarlet Elfcups are always a joy to see! ❤️

Winter Stalk Ball - Tulostoma brumale last January at the head of Landguard beach

My wife on Lowestoft beach, in the first year of our marriage 2012. Still seems like yesterday.

The herons that come into our garden are now building nests in the local park.

Gorse still looking glorious for #wildflowerhour plus a couple of new things blooming in Warrington this week, top left, naturalised Cornelian Cherry starting to open, bottom left Alder Catkins & top right, not only is Elder shooting but the flower buds are well on the way too!

Enigmatic Fossils Fill Missing Chapters in Story of Earth’s First Fishes | Sci.News In two separate studies, paleontologists in Australia and China examined the fossilized remains of enigmatic Devonian lungfish with cutting-edge imaging, revealing overlooked anatomical details and de...

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#science #paleontology #ichthyology #fossils #fish #lungfish #evolution

A brown mushroom about five inches tall, standing upright among twigs and leaves in scrubby grassland. It has a slender fibrous stem and a cup-shaped cap with an inrolled edge; pale gills beneath are crowded and weakly forked.

I came across this today, a quite distinctive mushroom, with an elegant shape, sheltered in scrubby grassland.

I think it may be The Goblet, Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis.

#fungifriends

With one fledged Ringed Plover over the last 6 years on that breeding site, it will need all the luck that it can get. Conversely, the management strategy could drop conserving breeding Carrion Crow and start actively conserving Ringed Plovers by removing the Crows.

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Dinner of roasted white and purple sweets potatoes, carrots, peppers, mushrooms, chickpeas and halloumi. With a tzatziki and tomato relish.
#hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking #vegetarian 🍽️🍜💚

Our walk today at North Cove.

Booster for Ariane 6 flight VA267 heading to the launch pad.

Every job has its responsibilities, some bigger than others.

Picture this: you're driving a custom built 36-wheeled truck with 142 tonnes of solid rocket fuel, aka explosive rocket propellant, as cargo.

How would you feel? 😰

Down amongst the Cladonia #lichen

YouTube video by NBC News Archival: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster | NBC Nightly News

40 yrs ago today, the #Challenger space shuttle exploded about 1 min after takeoff.

I remember our 5th grade class joined another class to watch the news about the explosion on a TV that one of the teachers wheeled in.

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This time last year @AspectForestry clear felled 2ha for long overdue heathland restoration at Sutton Heath, and made a fine job of it to. Will @EastSuffolk fulfil their moral obligation and have a further 2ha felled to bring the site into favourable condition?

Not to agitate my North American friends, but it's currently 7°C (45°F) here in Reykjavík and hasn't snowed all month. I haven't worn my big winter coat in a week.

Our local mountain, Esjan, basically has no snow. Pic from earlier this month; less snow now!
#iceland #climate
#aurora #northernlights

NASA Moves Steps Closer to Artemis II Fueling Test Ahead of Launch - NASA Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue to prepare the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ground infrastructure in

Kind of wild that one of NASA's biggest human spaceflight mission in years COULD be happening next week, but we're still waiting to know what's up. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

Thailand releases bred leopard sharks to boost wild population Thailand has begun its first effort to "rewild" Indo-Pacific leopard sharks, releasing aquarium‑bred pups off the southern Maiton Island in a bid to revive a species that has sharply declined in the w...

🦈 #shark
#Thailand is releasing captive-bred
Indo-Pacific #leopardsharks near #MaitonIsland "revive a species that has sharply declined in the wild due to overfishing and habitat loss."

Click through to watch a video from Reuters about this

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Our walk this morning at SWT Worlingham Marshes. Highlight: Male Hen Harrier.

First time seen devil's fingers in the wild
@ Waitakere Ranges, Auckland
📷🍄 #Mushrooms #fungi

A beacon of light, the launch pad for the first Ariane 6 with four boosters awaits.

Dear Donald,
sometimes it's climate change rather than climate warming, either way, the USA will be as vulnerable as any other country. Your Golden Dome and any other kind of dome will offer no protection at all. Really sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

When you fail a cognitive test, this is the result, posting with no understanding at all about reality.

A few more pics of Iceland Gull this afternoon at Sea Palling.

Rare octopus spotted on Tenby's North Beach before vanishing Photographer Gareth Davies saw the cephalopod as he went for a seaside walk.

BBC News - 'Beautiful' rare octopus spotted on popular Welsh beach
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