Slow moving as it basked in the sun, the West Park turtle made a brief return for one day earlier this month. Since last August, it’s been hibernating deep in the mud of the lake. Its time on its fallen branch must have been enough to find that although the weather was bright it was still near to freezing. And so, presumably, back to the mud and another lie-in until it gets warmer.
Velvet shank mushrooms grow in tight clusters at the base of tree trunks and stumps. These were at the edge of the Railway Walk near Lower Penn.
Dog’s mercury growing in the woodland area at Northycote Farm, flower buds developing but not yet open.
Wasp on a camelia flower, pausing before it heads for the centre to get some pollen.
Mining bee, a different species than the one featured in a post yesterday. This one many be an early mining bee.
Sequence of bracket fungi growing in a split in the bark of a large oak by the roadside at the edge of Seisdon.