What have we been finding in West Cowal? Lots of groovy things. Here's the report:
www.inaturalist.org/posts/127579...
#biologicalrecording #inaturalist #temperaterainforest #cowal #argyll #naturephotography
photo of a woodlouse standing on a mossy tree trunk
A wonderful little common rough woodlouse - Porcellio scaber.
#woodlouse #porecllio #wildlifephotography #glenan #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of a rather glossy chrysalis attached to a whitewashed stone wall.
closer view of some of the textures on the same chrysalis
Some lovely, leathery textures on this very fresh cabbage white chrysalis. <3 (from last August)
#pieris #lepidoptera #insect #wildlifephotography #chrysalis #galloway #scotland #uk
close up photo of some red frullania liverworts with a host of smaller things growing in amongst them
I've been seeking out a tiny lichen called Arctomia - it has beautiful deep red apothecia and is one of the many denizens of lush mini-jungles that form in the canopy of liverwort mats on tree trunks in danker woodlands in these parts.
#arctomia #liverworts #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
shiny, black slime mould sporangia
slime mould sporangia - black with reddish tops.
I think this one's Metatrichia floriformis, but the reddish, lid-shaped ornaments are not normal. Anyone seen them before?
Always check your stumps. ^_^
#slimemold #myxomycetes #slimemould #metatrichia #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of some fuzzy, brown, egg-shaped slime mould sporangia with long, dark, tapering stalks.
photo of some slime mould capilitium with elegantly curved, branching threads about 1-2µm in diameter, with an occasional spherical spore of about 9µm diameter.
New-to-me slime mould spotted on the broken end of a dead birch branch. Looks like Comatricha nigra, maybe.
#slimemold #myxomycetes #comatricha #slimemould #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of an old fencepost, the top completely covered by a mass of bushy lichens.
Macro photo of the underside of the same lichen.
A soggy wooden post with an unusual topping: Stereocaulon dactylophyllum, I think.
#FencepostOfTheWeek #stereocaulon #lichen #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
An ash tree branch festooned with so many lichens. =)
#lichen #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of a gorge full of bare, winter trees.
photo of a stream surrounded by mossy boulders and tree trunks.
Lephinchapel Burn: gorgeous!
#argyll #scotland #uk #landscapephotography #gorge #wintersun
Photo of a curtain of tree lungwort lichen; fresh hazel catkins visible beyond.
Winter on the wane :-)
#lobaria #spring #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk #lichen
Close up photo of some filmy fern fronds.
Wilson's filmy fern - Hymenophyllum wilsonii. Slightly dry but still very lovely ^_^
#fern #hymenophyllum #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of a willow trunk with good coverage of green moss and black Ricasolia virens cyanomorphs with a scattering of bright green lobes.
close up of some black, bushy Ricasolia virens thalli with a few bright green lobes budding from them.
Found a big, beautiful patch of Ricasolia virens cyanomorph on a willow near Auchalick Bay. #lichen #ricasolia #cyaonomorph #photosymbiodeme #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of an old, bleached fencepost in gloomy surroundings. Lichens on the top.
Mouldering in a gloomy spot #FencepostOfTheWeek
photo of a crowd of thick, rubbery bracket fungi with fuzzy tops and smooth, translucent undersides.
Tripe fungus - Auricularia mesenterica. Looking like tiers of bizarrely inflated turkey tail brackets. It usually grows on elm wood.
#fungi #auricularia #tripefungus #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #gigha #uk
I believe I found Scytinium teretiusculum for the first time a few weeks back. Added it to my image matrix of bushy little jelly lichens that grow on trees: wild-e-eep.blogspot.com/2025/05/minu...
Macro photo of some blue springtails clambering over moss. They are around 2-3mm long.
A bunch of springtails frolicking in the moss.
#springtails #poduromorpha #wildlifephotography #argyll #scotland #uk #collembola
Photo of the floor of an oak wood, covered in mossy tuffets
Found a lumpy bit ^_^
#moss #oak #intothewoods #tuffets #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of the mossy end of a toppled fencepost, in a roll of rusty fence-wire.
This entire fence has been pulled out of the ground and rolled up. It's still providing fertile surfaces for some nice lichens and mosses, though. #FencepostOfTheWeek
Photo of the underside of a leathery lichen
The underside of this lichen has some textures! I think this one is Umbilicaria torrefacta, growing on exposed rocks in a montane environment.
#lichen #umbilicaria #trypophobia #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk #trypophobia
photo of a blue sky with tattered shreds of cloud
Clouds scudding by yesterday.
photo of a thick, fuzzy, orange mass of algal filaments growing on a rock in bright sunshine.
Bright, fuzzy blobs of algae up in the crags of Beinn Bhreac.
#trentepohlia #algae #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
photo of a dense ball of twiggy outgrowths half way along a birch branch. Moss overgrowing the upper surfaces.
A rather mossy witches' broom <3
#betula #moss #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of a stone wall over undulating terrain with low, winter sunlight.
A length of wall running along side the ridge of Beinn Bhreac, enclosing a moor called Caladh Leacainn.
#landscape #wintersun #cowal #caladh #argyll #scotland #uk #wall
Photo of twisty roots on the underside of a wind-thrown root plate.
Spruce root plate.
#tree #picea #roots #argyll #scotland #uk
photo of frosty, back-lit tussocks of grass
Heavy frost, and bright sun, near the top of Beinn Bhreac (454m)
#frost #tussock #wintersun #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
Photo of an old fencepost, with rusty barbed wire and a some lichens growing on it.
Grizzled and cracked #FencepostOfTheWeek
photo of some irregularly cup-shaped Cladonias with bright red, blobby apothecia budding round the rims.
One of the pixy cup lichens brightening up an old, grey stone wall.
#lichen #cladonia #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
photo of some twisty tree branches with a few yellow leaves catching the westering sun
Nice oaks in some afternoon, November sun.
#oak #intothewoods #wintersun #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk
