Brown Roll-rim (Paxillus involutus).

Not a sombrero

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas).

Actually in better shape than at first glance, as part of the left upper wing is obscured by the stupid leaf (and which the stupid photographer did not take into account when framing the stupid picture).

Hybos culiciformis

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

Cetti's Warbler down among the reeds

Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides). Seen at Traeth Penial (Penial Beach), Anglesey.
#wildflowers

Thrift, or Sea Pink.
Seen at Penrhos, Holy Island, Anglesey yesterday

I met this Blue Tit at Penrhos Coastal Park, Anglesey, yesterday. We became friends and it offered me this larva.

What a bird!
The bullfinch is such a shy bird and quite scarce where I live it is a great pleasure to have seen one today.

#stodmarshNNR

Stonechats can keep their clicking song going even their mouths are full of moth.

Wood sorrel at Ashdown Forest on Saturday. #wildflowerhour

A Marsh Frog in a pond with vocal sacs fully inflated

Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, down at the speakeasy, Dan's Dock, Oare Marshes

I’ve limited memory in truth. Dad was in army and we’d just sailed back from Hong Kong.
Barracked in Colchester until discharge thence to SWANLEY!

When I was 4 we lived in West Mersea and the sea would lap against our back garden. We had to cross the causeway and I had bad dreams about getting stranded for a while!

It is. Saw my first one earlier this year. Great shot

Yesterday I visited Oxford's Iffley Meadows to see the Snake's Head Fritillaries. Its a 5 hr round trip but hey.
I must get round to visiting Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum. I never seem to have enough time.

Firecrest, my first Cuckoo Flower of the year at Blean Woods, Kent today. Wren from Pulborough, West Sussex on Sunday.
#birds
#wildflowers

Alpha and Omega

What a delight to see a soaring Skylark when the sun is unhindered.
"Winter time soon be over".
#Skylark
#Birds
#Birdsseenin2025

A Coal Tit searches the holly for insects. It seemed to be having a lot of success.
Today at Blean Woods, Kent

@coseyfannitutti.bsky.social

I must have a high whiff tolerance level!

I notice, this one has two feet. We had a monopod, now a bipod. Really looking forward to seeing tomorrow's waggy 😀

Lesser Celandine. Associated with the arrival of Swallows (Celandine is derived from the greek word for swallow).
No swallows yet but it is ushering out winter in the best way.
#wildflowers

Male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker this afternoon, Bossenden Wood, Kent.
1st pic it's perched on silver birch and I could hear it drumming for 5 mins before I laid eyes on it. It was surprisingly well camouflaged against the bark and the shadows.
@lesserspotnet.bsky.social
@kentishplover.bsky.social

On the ARC pit at Dungeness a Little Grebe pulls up a little fish.

Dance to your Daddy, my little man.

It must be orchid festival time again!

Poor old Parus!
It's lost feathers at the back of the scalp for some reason.
Hope they grow back.
It seemed healthy enough in the field, pottering around inspecting little clods of soil for food. At Knole Park, Kent yesterday.
#Birds
#wildlife

What a fine planter (if that's the right word) they have sitting in the cafe courtyard at Knole Park.
#wildflowers

A Black-necked Grebe parades Greebishly near the causeway at Staines Reservoirs, today
#Birds
#Birdsseenin2025

The Lesser spotted Woddpeckers are singing