Jim Blackler

Yellow daffodil flowers growing near brown, wintery looking hedgerows.

White Dead Nettle flowers in roadside green grass.

Fresh green buds in evening light.

A Bumblebee clambering over old brown leaves.

Some more signs of an approaching spring this week. Lots of Daffodils dotted around, buds, nettles and Bumblebees.

#Sussex #WildflowerHour

A small purple flower with green leaves in woodland.

Deep in a wood along a very muddy track I eventually spotted this Dog Violet, providing a tiny spot of colour. Just the one.

#WildflowerHour

Pale primrose flowers with green leaves in woodland.

I missed #WildflowerHour but have spotted some some firsts-of-the-year this week including Primroses.

Small white flowers in a hedgerow.

A small patch of Blackthorn flowers with the South Downs forming the horizon.

#Wildflowers #SignsOfSpring #Sussex

Looking straight down at frogspawn.

Frogspawn in a woodland pond.

#SignsOfSpring #Sussex

View of woodland floor, in green moss a red fungus has small spiders clambering over it.

Tiny spiders exploring a Scarlet Elf Cup.

🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

In breakfast room in hotel in #mumbai & you can’t imagine the joy & relief I’m feeling right now . Congratulations Hannah Spencer & the Greens 💚, the media & political establishment threw everything against them ( & will continue to do so 😵‍💫) but the message of change & hope won through 💚🙌🏼

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.

Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Margaret Tchatcheuse 🤟

Shadow Man

I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day.

If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor. A great place to capture shadows.

Blue-grey sporangia hanging from thin stalks on the underside of a fallen tree trunk.

Empty sporangia of Badhamia utricularis.

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday #SlimeMould

Hundreds of mushrooms lined up on a downed tree.

I’m thankful for my #fungifriends here on BlueSky. My family wasn’t nearly as excited as I was about today’s finds.

The black wood of the stump makes for a nice backdrop… saw one previously which also looked pretty good :)

wet felted green pod, embellished with lichen forms

wet felted green vase, embellished with lichen forms

Here are the results of some of my latest conversations with wool concerning the topic of lichens. If you want to see them in real life along with the work of many other Yorkshire makers, then pop along to @Fabrication Crafts , Stonegate, York and support our local artists #york #madeinyorkshire

Looking straight down at the top of a blackened tree stump with green moss and a brown fungus.

Turkeytail making a handsome display.

🍄 #FungiFriends

Totally! Was happy to spot these on a grey and rainy day :)

Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) - British Trees - Woodland Trust

They’re a sign of approaching Spring. These are the first I’ve seen this year.

There’s some handy general info here (also folklore like witches used Blackthorn to make wands!)…

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

A few pale Blackthorn flowers.

A few Blackthorn flowers in the hedgerow.

#Wildflowers #Sussex

A cartoon drawing of the math rock band Angine De Poitrine. They are in costumes, floating in a cross legged position, with large noses that are covered in polka dots.

Have people seen the band Angine De Poitrine yet?

They a two-piece kind of math-rocky band with amazing costumes and gimmicks. It's an amazing combo of skill and spectacle that you should check out.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

#mathrock #anginedepoitrine

Wow.

Used to get a big crowd on Saturday’s when the results were coming in :)

It Took 4,000 Shots, But Cheyenne Photographer Catches Owls At Perfect Moment Armed with a GoPro camera and a ton of patience, Pete Arnold of Cheyenne caught a perfect image of tiny owls frolicking near their burrow on the edge of…

There’s this for the owl photo…

cowboystatedaily.com/2024/08/11/g...

A pair of white framed sunglasses with one lens lying on a steep, grassy hill.

Sunglass.

#SouthDowns

Two gulf fritillary butterflies mating on green uluhe ferns

Happy Valentine’s Day! #invertebrate

Looking straight down at a Scurfy Twiglet trio.

Two mushrooms in rough, wet grass. Possibly Mottlegills.

A Turkeytail fungus on an old tree trunk.

Foto forage for fungi Friday.

🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #FotoForage

A light brown, slightly bedraggled moth on a twig.

Saw a moth lying on its side in a puddle. Carried out a twig-based rescue mission and left him in a sunny spot.

Think it’s a Spring Usher.

www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/agriopis-leucophaearia/

#Moths

A ladybird rambles along a twig with lichen.

Spotted my first Ladybird of the year yesterday.

#Ladybird