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Tiny bee on coltsfoot #WildWednesday #Wildflowers #Bees

An old oak tree on the path to Hagg Bank pond where there’s old willow trees with their feet in the water now because the water level is high. Some frogs are enjoying the muddy and damp conditions #ThickTrunkTuesday

Coltsfoot flowering, catkins and female flowers on alder trees, bees on dandelions and masses of blossom on the cherry plum and blackthorn trees, #SignsOfSpring for this weeks #WildflowerHour challenge

The ones in the first picture looked new ones and in the second picture I think they’re a pale type that have been around longer🍄‍🟫

They’re lovely ones 🍄‍🟫

A great old wall 🌿

They’re lovely, tiny and cute 🍄‍🟫

There are still some nice turkey tails about and the moss is doing well #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Moss

Lovely views and wildlife at Walltown Country Park, on Hadrians Wall walk, Northumberland #Hadrian’sWallWalk #Northumberland

Seven spot ladybirds emerging from hibernation in a small conifer in a sunny spot in the garden #ladybirds #WildWednesday #GardenInsects

I haven’t ever seen any fossils but the stream is high at the moment which I suppose might expose any fossils. Usually there is very little water in this river which feeds into the river Tyne.

Trees around the meandering river Cor at Corbridge, Northumberland, #ThickTrunkTuesday

Yes Northumberland.

Gorse, red dead nettle, lesser celandine and dog’s mercury flowering at Corbridge this morning #WildflowerHour

Trunks and branches for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Newly flowering this week, lesser celandine, honesty, chickweed and cherry plum #WildflowerHour

Spikes on the top surface as well.

A walk along the Derwent walk from Ebchester to Shotley Bridge and Stereum ochraceoflavum fungi on the stump of a cut off part of a tree #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Fungi

The guardian of the wood on this cold sunny day next to the river Tyne. Patches of velvet shank mushrooms growing amongst the rough stalked feather moss #ThickTrunkTuesday #Fungi #FungiFriends #Moss

Thank you 🤍💚

The common Galanthus nivalis snowdrop with the slender leaves and small green marks on the petals and Galanthus elwessi with broad pale green leaves wrapped around each other at the base deeper green marks on the petals #WildflowerHour

As other people have said it could be either scarlet or ruby elf cup but most people call them scarlet elf cup. The difference is in the hairs on the surface, ruby has straight ones and the scarlet ones are curved, you have to use a microscope to see them.

Tiptoe through the #Snowdrops #BloomScrolling

Lovely ones 🍄‍🟫

An old beech tree at Wallington with large burrs or tree-warts #ThickTrunkTuesday

Sure does 👍

Very similar to the dog’s tooth lichen, only a small difference between some things I think 🤔🤗

Some fungi and lichen at Wallington , Northumberland today, jelly ears, netted crust, artist bracket and scaly pelt lichen #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Lichen

Spurge laurel flowering next to the river Tyne at Hexham this week #WildflowerHour

I’m from the generation that used brackets. I love brackets 🤣