@markavery.bsky.social
Conservationist, campaigner, author, columnist, blogger, grandpa
Was surprised to see I do
07.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Slightly disappointed that A Message from Martha wasn't similarly used - more and longer words!
A Message from Martha
Cover: Carry Akroyd
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Cover: Audubon
Chaotic, thoughtless, unsupportable government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
06.10.2025 07:42 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
Two pretty moths (Red-green Carpet, LHS and Barred Sallow, RHS) and a Mottled Rustic which, common tho it is, was nfg and a lifer.
06.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 33 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Good list Andy!
05.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very pleased to see Lone Wolf short-listed here. Deserves to win prizes.
My review markavery.info/2025/08/10/s...
New on the blog! We talked to Wilson Wall and David Morgan about Citizen Science in Biology 📖
Read the full interview ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/4pz3mncf
#citizenscience #biology #sciencehistory #fieldwork #survey #ecology #conservation
This shelf looks a lot like my Bluesky feed from my nature/writing list.
02.10.2025 08:52 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
ICYMI: Jason Burke, Helen Garner, Richard Holmes, Justin Marozzi, Adam Weymouth and Frances Wilson have been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 👇 #BookSky
02.10.2025 08:17 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
White-speck
Another big increase in St Mellion last night, with 372 moths of 50 species noted. Best of the migrants were 7 Pearly Underwing, 2 White-speck, Delicate, l-album Wainscot & Scarce Bordered Straw. #teammoth
02.10.2025 11:13 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
On the same day the Conservatives blame net zero and renewables for high energy costs, a detailed new study explains how Spain's net zero and renewables have given it some of the lowest power prices in Europe. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
02.10.2025 10:19 — 👍 114 🔁 65 💬 2 📌 4
Merv, Merveille du Jour - a beautiful green moth with black and white markings. North Herefordshire, SO24
Carcina quercana, a brown micro moth with long antennae and golden yellow edges to its wings North Herefordshire, SO24
A lovely fresh Sallow. An autumnal yellow moth with brown markings on the wings. North Herefordshire, SO24
A respectable 61/14 last night - first moth to greet me was a Merveille du Jour and it was great to finally meet a Satellite and Carcina quercana, both absent from our old garden despite being quite common locally. Box fresh Sallow also a treat and two Black rustic #TeamMoth
02.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 51 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0More than breezy today
05.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Bradford, 1978, photo by Don McCullin.
04.10.2025 07:32 — 👍 129 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1
Posting a bright and colorful painting a day. jancrooker.com
03.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 59 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
A night-time photo of the base of a wide tree trunk, with illuminated mushrooms on the ground around the trunk.
🍄⭐ It's #UKFungus Day! ⭐ 🍄 Why not test your knowledge with our FUNgus Quiz ❓Take the challenge alone or share with friends at your next quiz night: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/afungusquiz
04.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
From fungal leather to natural dyes, and maybe even self-repairing fabrics, fungi are shaping a new era of sustainable textiles. Fungi aren’t just fascinating—they could be the key to a circular, low-impact fashion industry! Read this blog for #UKFungusDay: ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiandfashion
03.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A group of orange mushrooms growing in grass next to a dry-stone wall.
🍄🌱 Gardens can be fungal hotspots — if we let them! In this blog for #UKFungusDay, Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social at The RHS explores how garden practices can encourage (or suppress) fungi & why that matters for #SoilHealth & #Biodiversity. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiingardens
#Gardening
Clockwise from top left: yellow fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans) / witch’s hat waxcap (Hygrocybe conica) / collared earthstar (Geastrum michelianum) / Jew’s ear (Auricularia auricula-judae).
Clockwise from top left: pleated inkcap (Parasola pilicatis) / shaggy mane (Coprinus comatus) / trooping crumble-cap (Coprinellus disseminatus) / mica cap (Coprinellus micaceus).
Clockwise from top left: blewit (Collybia nuda) / rosy bonnet (Mycena rosa) / yellow stainer (Agaricus xanthoderma) / shaggy parasol (Macrolepiota rachodes).
Clockwise from top left: humpack brittlegill (Russula caerulea) / sickener (Russula emetica) / stinking dapperling (Lepiota cristata) / possibly an aniseed funnel (Clitocybe odora), though I am far from sure.
A day off of my tour on #FungiFriday, so braved the torrential rain to visit Oakhill Nature Reserve in #Goole. Surprised to find so many lovely things! AM very happy for any corrections to my IDs in the ALT text. #fungi #nature #Yorkshire #mycology #mushroom
03.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 44 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Parrot waxcap fungi. Image credit Ellyn Baker
UK Fungus Day 4/10/25
British Mycological Society aims to inspire preservation of native fungi and improve scientific knowledge of these unique organisms.
Check out Gary Easton blog www.ukfungusday.co.uk/isthataballerinaoraparrot which you can also find on our CfGA website.
#fungi #ukfungusday #CFGA
A few Scarlet Waxcaps growing in short green grass under a clear blue sky. They are red, moist and domed in appearance.
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Witches’ hats/blackening waxcap fungi (Hygrocybe conica) in orange-brown and warm yellow colours
Witches’ hats/blackening waxcap fungi (Hygrocybe conica) in purple-brown and warm yellow colours
Witch’s Hat toadstools
In toffee and banana -
Autumn’s colour trends.
#haikuSaturday
Parrot Waxcap
Sulfur Tuft
Pleated Inkcap
Not identified - any ideas?
Fungi season in the garden, including Parrot Waxcap. ID by Seek App. @cofnod.org.uk
30.09.2025 15:05 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Blackening Waxcap mushrooms
A cluster of Blackening Waxcap mushrooms. Also called Conical Waxcap.
#MushroomMonday #Mushrooms #Fungi #Autumn #Iphone
Blackening Waxcap / Hygrocybe conica in Ballacolla graveyard for #MushroomMonday . Good to get my Waxcap hunting off to a start! #fungifriends
29.09.2025 17:01 — 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a fungi called a Blackening Waxcap. The new ones are orange or scarlet, as shown here, and are growing in our green Clover lawn.
A photo of fungi called a Blackening Waxcap. The new ones are orange or scarlet, as shown here, and are growing in our green Clover lawn.
An image of a fungi species called Blackening Waxcap. The new ones are orange, but ageing ones like that shown here are much browner and duller. The fungus is growing in our back garden, which mostly has a green Clover lawn.
An image of a black fungi in the green garden lawn. It is a Blackening Waxcap. The new ones are orange, ageing ones become duller, until eventually all parts of the basidiocarp (fruit body) blacken with age as shown here.
Our back lawn is mostly White Clover, with lots of Blackening Waxcap
(Hygrocybe conica) popping up. We read this is a species of agaric (gilled mushroom) & all parts of the basidiocarp blacken with age. The new ones are orange, ageing ones have become duller, finally becoming entirely black...
Close up of a pink waxcap in grass, showing the stem and gills
Apparently it's #UKFungusDay so here's a phone snap of a pink waxcap I found in a new spot in our fields a couple of weeks ago. I've found them in a couple of other places before, but it's good to find a new location.
Cumbria, UK
#Fungi #fungifriends
Wonderful waxcap season underway again! 🤩 parrot , slimy, blackening and snowy #waxcaps in the garden or at the park - east central Scotland #fungifriday #ukfungusday #fungi @britishmyology.bsky.social
03.10.2025 07:08 — 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thursday 2nd Oct
A few #fungifriends from Cadder/Summerston on my walk to Asda. The best and only one id'd was Blackening Waxcap.
