One of the Brittlegills (Russula) at #RSPBBroadwaterWarren seen yesterday: Russula sardonia. Its common name is Primrose Brittlegill which always seems odd but I think to do will gill colour (certainly not cap).
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Well camouflaged - Limnocryptes minimus, the Jack Snipe, a ‘half Snipe’, at #RSPBDungeness at the weekend. If it doesn’t move you don’t see it. A scarce winter visitor.
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Self-heal was also in flower at #RSPBBroadwaterWarren last week.

Well yes I accept that though I would argue, pedantically, that conventionally the term ‘leg’ is often used for the whole limb often to include the foot and in the confines of a tweet I had done so. A flying GWE shows a lot of leg 😂

Dull wet windy today so a reminder of earlier this week: blue sky & berries of Ilex aquifolium. Also know as Holly, Holegn (Anglo-Saxon, perhaps here in East Sussex an original name); cuileann (Gaelic), cuilin (Irish) or celyn (Welsh), as listed by Milner (2011).
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Leaf mines on Burdock (Arctium) spotted by a gate into a field off our High Weald lane around sunset last night. I think a larvae of one of the Phytomyza flies (Phytomyza lappae).
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Would not have expected that

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Daldinia concentrica, an ascomycete of Ash trees, sometimes called Cramp Balls (L) but I think of them as King Alfred’s Cakes after the legend that on the run from Vikings he distractedly burnt the cakes (R) of a pheasant woman. All these on a single wind-felled Ash in our wood.
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Only a quick snap of a Great White Egret Ardea alba at #RSPBDungeness at the weekend but it does show how long their legs are, not always so obvious when they are standing in water or in reedbeds.
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In a copse a little further down the lane yesterday I did find a couple more Trooping Funnel, although less trooping more sentry duty but at least old enough to be a funnel.

Founded as a Local Nature Reserve in 1970 “Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is one of a kind”…

A Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka - a “Very rare vagrant” - on the cover of my Sussex Bird Report 2024 (arrived on Saturday). Only the second record for Sussex and so far the only one this century! And my first ever (I went to Seaford Head to see it).

Some talk of late that requirements for Lawyer’s Wigs may be eased. Not sure whether this will mean we will only refer to these as Shaggy Inkcap or Coprinus comatus in future. (Found these just down out High Weald lane this morning.)
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Thought you might 😄

Panurus biarmicus (Bearded Tit or Reedlings) were obliging at #RSPBDungeness on 25/10/25; perhaps 6, with the grit tray in use as they change from mainly invert to seed feeding.
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Trooping Funnel Infundibulicybe geotropa - always used to have a few troops in our wood but haven’t come across any this year, these were just down our High Weald lane.
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We are lucky with the Rye Bay wetlands as there are opportunities, unless windy, for seeing or at least hearing them (both at Dungeness yesterday).

Carline Thistle, Carline vulgaris, posing at RSPBDungenss yesterday in a cottony sort of way specially for #WildflowerHour

Really looking forward to speaking at Kent Wildlife Conference tomorrow about - what else? - urban botany! Will be talking Lobelia, Senecio’s and giant invasive trees! #urbanplants #urbanbotany #pavementplants #concretejungle @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social

That and the one above (he says triumphantly!)

Catching a Bearded doing the splits is definitely something to be chuffed about!

Going down our High Weald lane this morning I came across this Meripilus giganteus (Giant Polypore)exploding with excitement at the idea of #WildFungiHour - I decided not to explain this was for grassland Waxcaps in bold colours.
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At least 2 Clouded Yellow at RSPBDungeness yesterday in the breezy coastal sunshine.

I might be a bit envious

Beautiful late afternoon at #WallandMarsh 25/10. Some birds present In numbers: Common Gull present in numbers (50+ in one field); Stock Dove (20 in another); Pied Wagtail (17 together); Cattle Egret (12 together); Little Egret (3 in field adjacent to Cattle Egret).
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Haven’t seen any in years and just checked: it was 2013 at The Swale.

Congratulations!