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Deceptive

Deceptive

Deceiver mushrooms (Laccaria laccata), so called because they are fairly variable in appearance and easy to confuse with several other small brown species. Less likely to be a problem at this time of year, when there are only a few other types to be seen.

Deceptive

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Robin: bold, fluffed up

Robin: bold, fluffed up

Robin on a garden fence, only two yards or so from me, singing while its feathers were all fluffed up against the cold.

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Cluster of dryad’s saddles

Cluster of dryad's saddles

Dryad’s saddles, bracket fungi. Three clustered together on a fallen log by the Railway Walk.

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Lining up in rows

Lining up in rows

Some of the black-headed gull flock at West Park, on the tops of fence posts and along the shore of the lake, lined up in two rows.

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Yucca, midwinter flowering

Yucca, midwinter flowering

In front gardens on residential streets around here, yuccas which are treating the middle of the hardest winter for several years as their flowering season.

Yucca, midwinter flowering

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Rings around the moon, faintly rainbowed

Rings around the moon, faintly rainbowed

The full moon, late January. Early in the morning, it was shining through thin cloud. The halo of light surrounding the moon had a faint rainbow efffect.