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Image Taken on 28 May 2008 at 11:25    Image of day on 01 Jun 2008

Wet - Wet - Wet. The fungi are popping up in the grass and more interestingly on a log in a partly overgrown woodpile. Is this one 'fungus' (a single mycelium) or a number of 'fungi' fruiting bodies.


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Image of day on 15 Oct 2005

At the time we didn't notice the red droplets around the bottom of this fungus photographed on a wet morning


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Image Taken on 14 Aug 2008 at 08:39    Image of day on 25 Aug 2008

Huge number of our acorns have become deformed by insect invasion. This type is called a 'Knopper Gall'.


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Image of day on 09 Apr 2005

Lichen on oak tree bark - it grows on anything clean and stationary!


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Image Taken on 04 Dec 2008 at 10:34    Image of day on 27 Dec 2008

As we walked down to the corner of the plot this bright green display in the sunshine caught our eye, so we have tried to capture the un-seasonal green.


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Image Taken on 08 Apr 2011 at 18:21    Image of day on 19 May 2011

At the North East corner, on mostly shaded side, a lovely cherry tree in blossom has on the trunk some beautiful lichens, here lit by the evening sun.


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Image of day on 11 May 2005

Oak galls form when an insect lays an egg under the bark. Some remains small and other swell up to wooden sphere 2cm in diameter.


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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2008 at 12:20    Image of day on 29 Jul 2008

Plant galls fascinate us. They are formed by insect parasites, often eggs laid inside the plant which reacts to form a cavity to the insect lavas liking. Eventually the insect bores its way out. In the winter you find the woody galls with the exit holes visible.


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Image Taken on 08 Feb 2008 at 11:41    Image of day on 04 Mar 2008

This robin was singing alternately in competition with another only 30m or so along the farm track.


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Image Taken on 15 Jul 2011 at 17:59    Image of day on 27 Aug 2011

One wild rose is smothered in Robins Pincushion - an insect gall. One at the top of the stem (above this framing) is 6cm in diameter, but these are more typical on this plant at 2 to 3 cm.


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