A mature specimen of this bracket fungus.
Pieces from the interior of such a fungus were being carried by Ötzi the Iceman when he died. It can be used as tinder to help in lighting fires.
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Violets and a celandine
More spring flowers at last. Violets and the lesser celandines from this patch have already featured in pervious posts as they began to open.
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Oh no it spraint
Like many native mammals, its easier to spot traces left where otters have been than to see the animals themselves – specifically, the spraint left in the area they use as a toilet.
This was from an otter on the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve, by the river Penk.
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Daffodil with a small fly
The warmer weather has finally brought on some flowers, providing welcome daffodil pollen for insects like this fly.
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Dryad’s saddles, Smestow Paddock
Bracket fungi, whimsically seating for tree nymphs.
Growing on two of the trees on the bank of the Smestow not far from the Nature Reserve Ranger Station.
CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly blushing brackets
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Trousered chickens, Pendeford Mill
More of the impressive livestock at Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve. These birds are hens, not, as I thought, cocks.
