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Milk-white little cup

Milk-white little cup

Tiny fungus,less than half a centimetre across, growing in the moss on the top of a wall.

Milk-white little cup

Doesn’t actually have an English name, presumably because it is so small that it usually escapes notice. Leptoglossum retirugum is its official Linnean name: milk-white little cup is a translation of its name in German, Milchweisser Becherling.

Milk-white little cup

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Cormorant taking off from the Severn at Bridgnorth

Cormorant taking off from the Severn at Bridgnorth

A cormorant was fishing in the Severn at Bridgnorth while I was crossing the old bridge recently. The current was sweeping it closer, until it decided it was too close to humans, and took off to head back upstream.

I only had time for this one picture, and the camera was on the wrong setting so the autofocus couldn’t cope with a fast-moving subject. But I liked the effect anyway.