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…
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…
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…
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…