Jen Farrar

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is a glorious European Shag on the Isle of May to get us started #SuperSeabirdSunday

My niece filmed this water shrew in Inverkirkaig , Assynt. I've never seen one of these what little beauty it is.

Cotoneaster integrifolius at a Norwich park & ride. Pretty distinctive habit and dull crimson fruit

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Long-spiked Glasswort Salicornia dolichostachya. Very well named. Exceedingly long and tapered spikes. Seen fairly plentifully at Gutner Point and North Common. Hayling Island, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yellow Glasswort Salicornia fragilis was found sparingly on the gravely lower edges of the saltmarsh at Gutner Point, Hayling Island, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Lovely surprise find today (by @nickaston.bsky.social) on the beach at Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire while we were Salicornia hunting. A huge heap of washed-up Dwarf Eelgrass Zostera noltei. Blunt, notched leaf tips. And flowers to boot! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Sphagnum balticum taken yesterday in a wetland nature reserve #moss #bryophyte

Wavy Hair-grass, Avenella flexuosa. Photos taken at same place, 3 months apart, July (left) & September (right).

Up to 80cm. Tufted. Dark, smooth, bristle-like leaves. Blunt ligules, 0.5-3mm. Loose, open panicles, up to 15cm long. Crinkled branches. 2-flowered spikelets.

A lovely clump of Stark White Spider Orchids (Caladenia longicauda subsp eminens) dancing in the breeze. Seen at Kojonup, Western Australia

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #nature

Solanum revealed 2 species: nigrum & nitidibaccatum, Black & Green Nightshade. Apart from the obvious berry colour, it always remained possible that Green Nightshade could have been unripe berries.
Green= sepal lobes expand as the berries mature
Black= stays the same

OK, so the Cambs Fenland drains had a Water-plantain. The leaves had perished in the summer, & it may have been either A. plantago-aquatica or A. lanceolatum.
Luckily, it was fruiting.
A) A. plantago-aquatica= achenes had a single furrow on the back.
B) A. lanceolatum= two furrows.
Answer is A.

An interesting fern from today's wander in Throckley Dene - Dryopteris borreri morph. foliosum. A great big untidy looking thing with crimped pinnules. Certainly stood out! #ferns

Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis is the rarest subspecies of maidenhair spleenwort found growing out of damp limestone with high humidity levels. Identified by its lobed leaves from which it gets its English name, lobed maidenhair spleenwort. This one was tucked away in the Wye Valley.

Hi, from left to right...
Dandelion, Taraxacum off. agg.
Maple, Acer sp.
Prunus sp. - my best guess would be a cherry. If you check the leaf stem/base of the leaf and there are two glands, extrafloral nectaries, then it is a species of cherry. I hope that helps 🙂

Sphagnum squarrosum in a swampy woodland pond in the New Forest on Monday. Such a pretty moss!

Marginal veins of Nymphaea alba (left) and Nymphaea candida (right) for comparison.. Veins of candida join to form closed loops, those of alba end at the leaf edge. Of course there’s a hybrid too, which is common where they meet.

Camouflage 2: Grey/Dark Dagger, Acronicta psi/tridens. Wide range of larval food plants including Hawthorn and Blackthorn

Some fascinating pink mushrooms growing off a tree.

#ColorADay
#PinkMonday
#MacroMonday

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Beautiful.... it takes me right back to that beach on Iona 🥰

Sphagnum pulchrum and majus #moss #bryophyte

Amanita muscaria - Fly Agaric. 🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

The Scarletinas are here! Delicious! Neoboletus praestigiator - Scarletina Bolete. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Amanita rubescens - The Blusher. #FungiFriends

Found more Favolaschia claudopus - Orange Porecap in a different woodland this afternoon. It’s definitely spreading. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Himalayan Knotweed, Persicaria wallichii. Up to 180cm. Smooth stem. Leaves up to 20cm, veins can be reddish. Leaf base cordate or truncate. White or pinkish flowers, 5 lobed, in loose leafy inflorescence.

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

Chaps! Do yourself a favour and get a blood test done to have your PSA levels checked. I did last month and my elevated levels triggered off a scan, biopsy and prostate cancer diagnosis. The good news is that is a tiny amount, confined and not aggressive. Seems a good time to urge others to check!