Even though it was a dank dull still day we managed to take a walk at Winkworth Arboretum which is always a delight. The National Trust were encouraging people to get out. They required you to book a place as the nation was still under its second lockdown. We’d booked…
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More lichen’s
Went for a very early morning walk, before the sun was up. The sunrise was a rapid intense pink and was greeted by a similar intensification of bird song at Fox Corner Community Wildlife Area. There were geese honking in the darkness upon the pond just before this sunrise. I…
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Lichen exploration
Whether you pronounce the “ich” as in like or as in itch doesn’t really matter. (As a matter of preference I say it as in like, as I like them – but I use to say it as in itch as it figuratively scratches something that itches in me!) This…
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Amazing lichens
This photo is an example according to Tristan Gooley’s latest book of the most underrated and underrappreciated groups in nature. Carl Linnaeus called them (from a Latin translation) ‘Poor little peasants of nature’. The Greeks; eruptions, warts or leprosy. Here we have Xanthoria polycarpa (I think) which is sensitive to…