Jane Wisbey

Rain, rain, rain, winter aconites, rain, rain. Gloucestershire this week. #wildflowerhour

The patterns of winter From tiny spores to dancing skies: things that caught my eye in January

Recent nature highlights from Gloucestershire:
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Wow! Ours (Gloucestershire) are not quite there yet - just a few very bedraggled ones.

Beautiful Green Hellebore, Helleborus viridis, in woodland on the edge of Croydon. 💚 It is a member of the Ranunculaceae, the Buttercup family. What look like green petals are in fact sepals, and the petals themselves are reduced to small tubular nectaries (visible in third photo). #WildflowerHour

Close up of yellow hazel catkins, with lots of out of focus catkins in the background, and a tiny, red female flower on the supporting twig.

Hazel catkins and one tiny, red female flower, in a rare moment earlier this week when it wasn’t raining and the air was still. #Gloucestershire #wildflowerhour

Very much enjoyed this exhibition this morning.

Close up of a clump of snowdrops, flowers fully open.

Snowdrops in Gloucestershire – this week, fully open. #wildflowerhour

Black-and-white image showing silhouette of an old oak tree in winter, beside a country lane, against overcast sky.

Tree of the week: an old oak on a Gloucestershire lane.

Endless rain and grey skies, not much wildlife about, but possibly the best time of year to admire old trees in the landscape?

Capturing tree silhouettes with a phone Inspiration and tips for phone nature photography in February

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Close up of a clump of snowdrops covered with water droplets from recent rain.

Snowdrops and raindrops. Plenty of both in Gloucestershire this week. #wildflowerhour

A clump of snowdrops on a bank strewn with fallen leaves.

Lots of snowdrops on the banks in Gloucestershire this week #wildflowerhour

Impressed with your pristine celandine. I’ve spotted a few in Gloucestershire this week, but all very battered!

Autumn in Transylvania last month.

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The unexpected Isles of Scilly Island nature beyond the seals and seabirds.

The seals and seabirds are wonderful, but this week I’ve written about some of the less conspicuous nature I encountered in these magical isles. stillinthewild.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

Becoming Still in the Wild Time to refresh my Substack.

Does the new-term feeling of September ever wane? Not for me, it seems.
#naturephotography #natureconnection

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Some in the Isles of Scilly last week, too :) but so windy that photos unshareable!

A first for me: rock sea-spurrey. Small flowers, about a centimetre across. Decorating a slipway on Tresco, Isles of Scilly. #wildflowerhour #scilly

A buff tip moth, hoping to pass as a birch twig. Not unusual to find in our Gloucestershire moth trap but always lovely to see #mothmonday #teammoth

Heather and gorse looking gorgeous in the Isles of Scilly #wildflowerhour #scilly

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The plush wings of a mint moth, about 15mm across, resting in the marjoram at the end of a Cotswolds garden.
#mothmonday

My first sighting of a large emerald moth. Beautifully marked, scalloped-edge wings, about 5cm across. Definite highlight of summer moth-trapping in Gloucestershire.
#mothmonday

Wild carrot, done with flowering. Yesterday, at WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. For #wildflowerhour

Knapweed, this morning on the Cotswold Way, for #wildflowerhour

Lesser spearwort and water forget-me-nots in a small garden pond, Gloucestershire, for #wildflowerhour #aquaticplants

Yellow rattle and white clover aplenty, for #wildflowerhour. This #Cotswolds wildflower meadow is fairly new - it was sheep-grazed short grass until a couple of years ago.

One of my favourite ash trees, catching the early evening sun.
#treetuesday #nature

Black medick, down among the soaked long grass, for #wildflowerhour #peafamily

Dance of the swan.

Nature in jars and outside Things that caught my eye in May.

A look back at May in London and the Cotswolds…
#nature #photography
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