A robustly trunked English Oak tree rising above bare ground covered in acorns against a backdrop of Silver Birch, bramble and bracken

English Oak at Norton Big Wood, Lincolnshire on #ThickTrunkTuesday

Bright button like yellow flowers of Tansy against a background of its own still green leaves and browning senescent stems and blurred lake horizon.

Popping the last of its buttons. This Tansy clump has been centre stage on a small area of urban lakeside grass that I have refrained from mowing for the last five years #WildFlowerHour

A pink-purple Spear Thistle flower with all of its spiney winged stems leaves and bracts against the background of rusted metal fencing autumn leaf covered grass and shrubs

Spiney winged stems, leaves and bracts. A formidable Spear Thistle easing itself through the fencing on the Culverthorpe Hall Estate, Lincolnshire #WildFlowerHour

A Parasol mushroom amongst Oak leaf litter including acorns and their empty cups. To the left an unfortunately planted Laurel hedge. Against a background of Silver Birch trees across the Wood Lane road.

Large enough to be seen from my passing car. A Parasol is up on the Wood Lane verge #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

The underside of a Pedunculate Oak leaf covered in brown button like growths. The leaf is surrounded by other leaves with an acorn in the centre. Attached to this particular acorn there may be another chemically induced Knopper Gall produced by a different species of Gall Wasp called Andricus quercuscalicus

Silk Button Spangle Galls served on a Pedunculate Oak leaf platter by the brilliantly named Gall Wasp Neuroterus numismalus #WildWebsWednesday

White Campion flowers amongst various seedheads of greater Plantain, Canadian Fleabane and others. A Garden Cosmos can be seen in the background.

A magenta coloured Cosmos flower in all its Autumn glory.

Garden Cosmos, an absolute #WildFlowerHour gate crasher amongst the Mugwort, Canadian Fleabane, Greater Plantain and White Campion along the path side edge on an urban green space.

A going to seed Viper’s-bugloss plant with few blue flowers remaining. Against a background of grassland and scattered scrub under a grey overcast sky

Viper’s-bugloss a tiny bit of blue in an overcast Lincolnshire sky #WildFlowerHour

White slender stemmed Fairy Inkcaps with grooved caps amongst leaf litter, moss and bramble

Jostling for your attention. A flurry of activity amongst the Fairy Inkcaps on #FungiFriday

On Top of the World. A pollen covered Ivy Bee foraging amongst the loaded anthers of Common Ivy #WildWebsWednesday

A yellow, black and grey Toadflax Brocade moth caterpillars to arched on a purple blotched green stem of Purple Toadflax.

The last of the Purple Toadflax leaves consumed by the last of the remaining Toadflax Brocade moth caterpillars on a plant that was removed from the driveway as a vulnerable self sown seedling and planted in the garden. #WildWebsWednesday

Yes I read the article thanks

A species of Knotgrass growing close to the ground. The majority of the leaves appear to be blunt tipped and of equal size. The stems are tinged reddish pink with tiny fused green white flowers and yellow anthers

Mats of Knotgrass spread over the well trodden surface of a rural footpath.

A timely post. I very nearly posted this on last weekends #WildFlowerHour Mats of tiny white flowers on a very well trodden rural Lincolnshire footpath. I was not sure at the time but now leaning towards Equal-leaved Knotgrass although it seems it may not be as simple as that.

Sickening to see a clump of monofilament line trapped around and damaging the dorsal fin of this Risso's Dolphin off Trondra today.

Monofilament is a silent killer of wildlife.

Whoever discarded this clearly just doesn't care.

#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife #marinelitter

White Bryony threading its way up, down and all around Black Horehound #WildFlowerHour

Fly Agaric fungi. Red cap with white flecks of its original veil atop a white stem/stipe amongst brown leaf litter against a backdrop of green Bramble leaves.

Pushed up through the leaf litter. A pristine Fly Agaric at the edge of urban green space woodland on a former sand & gravel extraction pit #FungiFriday

Yes of course that should be dessert

An orange, black and white caterpillar with grey hairs finding its way around a blackberry in a hedgerow

Up for desert. A Yellow-tail moth caterpillar I think, circumnavigating one of the many blackberries amongst its preferred shrub food plants of Hawthorn and Blackthorn in a Lincolnshire hedgerow. #WildWebsWednesday

First time it has really established itself in my suburban garden. A cheery flower that I occasionally see on farmland field edges. I Would like to see it in its blue and white forms

Thank you I will look out for them

Winged seeds of Field Maple backlit by a Lincolnshire field and sky. They appear to be turning a vivid pink and purple-the process of green chlorophyll cells breaking down revealing underlying pigments

Field Maple samaras tumbling about at the field edge #WildflowerHour

Five fully opened Scarlet Pimpernel flowers amongst their slender stemmed leaves growing over and covering underlying gravel

A single Scarlet Pimpernel flower amongst gravel.

My current #FavouritePlant is the Scarlet Pimpernel that has found its way into the gravel bed at the end of our front garden path #WildflowerHour

Shaggy Parasol fungi amongst the leaf litter and deadwood in an urban woodland along the boundary of a residential area. The fallen leaves include Oak, Hawthorn and Ash. Other surrounding trees and shrubs include planted Aspen, Wild Cherry, Silver Birch Dogwood, Blackthorn

Shaggy Parasol amongst the deadwood and leaf litter in a pocket of urban green space woodland #FungiFriday

Orange and brown coloured Small Copper butterfly resting on the pink tinged buds of Sedum

Small Copper butterfly nectaring the white form of Valerian

Not truly #WildWebsWednesday but this Small Copper is only one of three I have seen so far this season. This one nectared Sedum and the white form of Valerian for a couple of days in my wildlife garden

A reddish orange Seven-spot Ladybird on the inner black coloured lip of a white enamel mug.

Seven-spot Ladybird finding its way around the lip of my lunchtime enamel mug

Placing pebbles around a litter bin base mini-pond in the garden yesterday. Not always unusual, the base was retrieved from the bottom of a much bigger local pond.

The seedhead of Wood Avens. The styles are hooked enabling dispersal via attachment to passing animals

A spiked burr like #Seedheads of Wood Avens hooked for animal dispersal #WildFlowerHour

A Leafcutter Bee amongst the anthers in the centre of a Field Scabious flower

A somewhat worn out Leafcutter Bee embedded in a Field Scabious flower #WildWebsWednesday

A two step stile and fence leading up to a wooden bridge obstructed by overgrown hedging and other vegetation

A cluster of blackberries of varied ripeness in a Lincolnshire hedgerow.

The bridge now cleared of overgrown vegetation using hand shears, pruning saw and strimmer.

Amongst today’s other work challenges. Don’t eat too many blackberries.

Blue tinged fruits of Oregon Grape clinging to a Lincolnshire drystone wall.

Oregon Grape and a Lincolnshire drystone wall #fruits #WildflowerHour