Helen Bennett 🌿

Beautiful 🌼

Photo of a blueish fungus growing on a dead tree trunk on the forest floor. Some green moss sprigs are visible on the tree trunk. The fungus consists of a short, stout stalk, branching into two semi-open cups. One cup is atop the stalk and opened upwards. The other is on a short branch coming off from the right side of the stalk.

Chlorociboria aeruginascens aka green or blue-green elf cup #fungus. NWT, Canada. About 2cm high. #fungi #fungifriends

Wonderful photo, Dave 👏

Beautiful atmospheric shot Marg!👏 ✨️ Happy Sunday 🤗🕊🤍

The bend in the river has the crimson sun waffling through the mist as dormant greenery is dusted with frost enhancing its details. The water is is calm and is reflecting as much of the world above as it can.

Everything awakens with the Suns’ encouragement 📷🕊️ …

Thank you, Rebecca! 🙂👋

Yes... I love seeing everything coming to life. 🌸🐝🌱
Hope you have a good week ahead Chloe 🙂👋

Cherry, Primrose, Barren Strawberry, Lesser Celandine, Willow, Hazel (female flower), Bluebell, Primrose.

Dog’s Mercury, Wood Anemone, Bee Orchid rosette, Dog Violet, Willow, Wood Anemone, Daffodil, Hazel (make flower), Cherry.

Lots of #SignsOfSpring at Powerstock Common NR in Dorset this week, including the first Bluebells pushing through, my first Wood Anemone and the promise of Bee Orchids to come. See ALT text for more #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Fantastic! 🌸

A large purple flowered, large leaf orchid growing in grassland.

A close-up photograph of an orchid flower.

It feels so strange seeing an orchid in flower in March, but here it is, a Giant Orchid (Himantoglossum robertianum) in Oxfordshire.
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

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Blackthorn blossom on sloe tree, Devon

Thicket of blackthorn blossom #Devon #WildflowerHour

Wonderful collection Jeremy! 👍

Beautiful collection! 🌸🤍

A close up photograph of one Goat willow catkin that had burst open releasing its golden pollen where a Vernal Mining bee (Colletes cunicularius) is seen feeding; this is a large, spring-flying solitary bee with a brown buff-hairy thorax, head and abdomen. The background is blurred in a dark brown grey tone. Taken on 5 March 26 UK

One for #WildflowerHour challenge: #SignsOfSpring

The blooms of Goat Willow (Salix caprea) is my star choice; they were providing much needed food for many different pollinators that had emerged in the warm weather! 🌿📷

#Photography #NativePlants #Stunday #Invert #bees
#MacroMonday #EastCoastKin

It’s 8pm & it’s Sunday, so it must be time for #wildflowerhour!🎉 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain & Ireland in the last week especially if they are #SignsofSpring, the focus of this week’s challenge! 😀

Lone figure walking on the beach as the sun sets on the Atlantic Ocean.

Bright light will always banish the dark...pass it on 🧡
#MeaninglessHashtag #MHClub #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky

A red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) nosing through the dirt as they are shot in a sort of profile facing the left of frame.

Happy Sunday
Red river #hog - Potamochoerus porcus
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 2-21-26) 🐗🐖🦊 #photography #animal #mammal #zoo #cincyzoopic #pig

A reddish-brown bear standing on the edge of a paved road, eating dandelions that are growing beside the road.

Won't be long until these beauties are back out and about. This is a cinnamon coloured Black Bear photographed in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada a couple of years ago. #wildlife

They are wonderful... lovely set of images! 👍🤍

A superb morning photographing Mountain hares ⛰️🐇⛰️ here in @peakdistrict.bsky.social The only population of these beautiful mammals found outside of Scotland. Much easier to spot in their white winter coats #DERBYSHIRE #mammals @derbyswildlife.bsky.social #Wildlife @britishnatureguide.bsky.social

Stonechat. Super model of the bird world! East Pentire, Newquay 🟰🟰
@rspb.bsky.social @cbwps.org.uk @birdguides.bsky.social #cornwallbirding #birds #🪶 #ukbirding #birdphotography #birdsseenin2026

Crocus are making a nice splash of colour right now. It was a lovely sunny day on Tuesday here 🌞

Beautiful!

Blossom! It feels like spring has arrived. Taken with an old Soviet KMZ Helios 44/2 M42 mount lens. #Nature #Blossom #Bloomscrolling #Nikon #Zenith #Helios

Blossom! It feels like spring has arrived. #Nature #Blossom #Bloomscrolling #Nikon #Zenith #Helios

A selection of Ophrys candica flowers, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn

Another of my favourite #orchids in the kaleidoscopic range we see during the @mariposanature.bsky.social #OrchidsOfRhodes is Ophrys candica.

It's a really variable species, no two flowers ever quite the same. Every encounter is a lucky dip, one never knows what the next iteration will be.

Cypress trees stand in still water with clear reflections in dense fog.

This morning's fog

#photography #naturephotography #landscape

A Great Egret is standing in marsh waters. It's a large white bird with a yellow beak and black legs.

Today's #birdoftheday them is birds #StandingInWater.

Ink and watercolour sketches: top left - Great Northern Diver (common loon) in winter plumage; centre left - Black-throated Diver in winter plumage; bottom left - Red-throated Diver in winter plumage; top right - Great Crested Grebe in breeding plumage; Centre right - Razorbill in winter plumage; bottom right - Common Guillemot (murre) in winter plumage.

Divers, Auks and a Great-crested Grebe, for #SuperSeabirdSunday (names in the altText).
Pen and watercolour sketches.
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#birdingNorthEast

Morning #bird

This #photogenic Steller's Jay looks like he's taking a bow after a performance.

Pine, AZ.

#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday