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Posting on Scottish wildlife of all kinds. #ScottishWildlife #ScottishWildflowers #InvertFest #FungiUK #MammalsUK #ScottishBirds

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stirclacswt, to random
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Open Seas win Inner Court of the Court of Session Appeal judgement here on seabed dredging:
https://www.openseas.org.uk/news/a-legal-victory-for-scotlands-seas/

stirclacswt, to random
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Our Group’s next free Public Talk on Zoom is ‘Dragonflies of Scotland’ by Daniele Muir of British Dragonfly Society Scotland. Tuesday 9 Jan 7.30pm. In the depths of winter, a chance to look forward to summer invertebrates! All welcome. Free but donations welcome. Must register via Eventbrite. Link here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dragonflies-of-scotland-tickets-771542633787?aff=oddtdtcreator

felicitymartin, to random
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At least this persistently wet weather is good for fungi.

The same mushroom, seen from a lower angle so that its creamy gills are visible.

stirclacswt,
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@felicitymartin I saw some of these yesterday, about 15 in a group. Any idea of the ID?

stirclacswt,
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@felicitymartin Thank you so much. I know a likely ID for a few of that family of fungi - they’re not easy!

Sheril, to history
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Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. http://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer

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Small newly-emerged Common Puffballs, I think, RH one maybe 2.5cms, plus one tiny sibling. Under yews near Golf Course car park, Stirling Uni. Also, yet another turfed up specimen of The Prince. I think Crows maybe knock them over to get at the bit of stem under the ground. I’ve seen a crow carrying a piece of low stem of The Prince from this site, as if taking it back to the nest. Any views on this idea?

Close-up of specimen of The Prince lying on its side. Fat white stem, wide thick cap of beige colour , darker at centre of cap, with whitish gills just visible through cracks in the cap

stirclacswt, to random
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Good info here on Ivy Bees, a kind of Solitary Bee. Been travelling north in UK, often along coastal areas. Recently been seen in E Lothian, so worth having a look for it in our area if visiting Culross or similar area. Feeds mainly on Ivy, so usually seen Sep - Nov.

https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/ivyminingbee/?utm_source=BBCT+-+GDPR+List&utm_campaign=ea99a8f837-General+e-news+-+GDPR+list_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_559309e40d-ea99a8f837-29669187

stirclacswt, to random
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Our Group’s first Winter Talk is online on Tues 3rd Oct 7.30pm. Title is ‘Wildlife of the Head of Loch Tay and the Tay Marshes SSSI’. Speaker is John Holland, Upland Ecologist of SRUC. Free but donations welcome. Book early as only 100 places and we expect it to be excellent. Log on by 7.15pm on the night. More information and booking link here:
https://www.swtstirling.org.uk/winter-talks

stirclacswt, to random
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Think this is a Common Earthball Fungus, Scleroderma citrinum. Found in a clump of smaller, younger specimens of same under Beech in an area of mature Beech woodland. Near Gallows Hill, Bridge of Allan. More information about the species here:TL.DR, it explodes to spread its spores!

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/fungi-and-lichens/common-earthball/

stirclacswt, to Halloween
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Although it’s been pleasantly warm and sunny today, signs of autumn are all around too. Some trees showing first signs of leaves colouring from night frost, Hawthorn’s berries now fully ripe /ruby red, and bramble flowers beginning to turn pink too.

This one briar of Bramble leaves had turned pink while others around it were still fully green. pink and yellow against green grasses.

stirclacswt, to random
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I’m no fungus expert, but I think this very lovely fungus is Hygrocybe acutoconica, Wax-cap family. (Formerly called Hygrocybe persistens.) The stem can vary from pale to deep red. By the cycle track Doune to Dunblane yesterday.

This individual of same species of fungus has similar yellow, conical cap, but a deep red stem, amongst grasses
Another example of same species, this one with a cracked yellowcap, very typical of Wax-cap fungi to crack like this.

Dave2022, to Mycology

Craterellus cornucopioides
Horn-of-Plenty

Also known as the black chanterelle, black trumpet, trompette de la mort (French), trombetta dei morti (Italian) or trumpet of the dead, djondjon (Haitian).

stirclacswt,
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@Dave2022 Goodness me. Never heard of this before, but there are a very few records of it in Scotland. See here for distribution map and more photos of it. Colour is sometimes dark green, not black. . . .
https://scotland-species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0001479608

Dave2022, to Mycology

Cyathus striatus
Fluted Bird's Nest Fungus

stirclacswt,
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@Dave2022 Oh wow, here’s another species which is found in Scotland though rarely. Distribution map and other photos here, but your photo is better!
https://scotland-species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000041475

stirclacswt, to random
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Fungi time of year now for sure. Struggling with ID for these, though maybe the first is Orange Grisette, see the remains of the collar at the base. But interesting colours/ forms/ patterns anyway. Things are definitely starting to look autumnal in our area, so probably there will be even more fungi soon. Near Brig o Turk today.

Centre of fungus reddish, fading to orange at the edge, against small twigs and dark green moss below.
Close-up Fungus - cap orangey-colour, with pale broken remains of the sheath it emerged from scattered on the top, look almost like breadcrumbs.

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Speckled Wood butterfly today basking on Bramble and on path edge, in cool conditions. In between times, very fast and flighty, seeking flowers but not settling on them when it found them. Among some mature broadleaf and mature conifer, near Kippenrait Glen SSSI, but outside its boundary. They seem to be extending their distribution recently in our area.

Close up of Speckled Wood, brown butterfly with cream spots basking on gravelly path.

stirclacswt, to random
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This is quite a long but thoughtful read from RSPB Scotland, on approaches to managing the increasing risk of wildfires in rural Scotland.

https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scotland/posts/finding-a-way-forward-on-wildfires

stirclacswt, to random
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Single Spear Thistle flower providing a good buffet for these 3 or 4 Hover-flies. Think they might be Syrphus ribesii, a very common and widespread Hover-fly in the UK.

A single purple Spear Thistle flower with 3 wide-bodied hoverflies, feeding, and dancing around on it at times too!

stirclacswt, to Orchids
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Oooh - look at ‘my’ Broad-leaved Helleborine now! Pic 1 Colouring up well up the tall flower-spike, Pic 2 close-up of individual flowers 😍😍 and see in Pic 3 there are ?ants clambering about on the plant too. Tap/ click on each pic to see it entire.

Two individual flowers on the spike, showing complex shape and colours shading from green/ yellow to pale pink in the lower lip and deep maroon half-hidden further inside.
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stirclacswt,
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@felicitymartin Thanks, I wondered about that, but couldn’t see anything obvious in the photo or in life either. (My sight isn’t perfect though!!)

stirclacswt, to random
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A Scotland-based job as Conservation Officer for Buglife here:

https://www.buglife.org.uk/job/guardians-of-our-rivers-conservation-officer/

stirclacswt, to random
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Pretty sure this colony of newly-emerged fungi will become recognisable Puffballs, with a hole in the middle of the cap inside which their tiny spores sit, to be blown out by high winds or heavy rain. You can see that the form of the stem and cap is continuous, unlike most fungi. So new that they’re pretty clean and barely nibbled yet. Across road from Logie Cemetery Car Park and follow wee path towards disused Lodge House.

As above but more close-up
Overhead view of most of colony. Only 2 of 40+ have been nibbled so far!

stirclacswt, to random
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More on meadowland today: 5-spot Burnet Moth on Marsh Thistle. Also, Cinnabar Moth Caterpillars on Ragwort. Seeing more of these in our area in last few years.

Yellow and black striped Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar feeding on Ragwort, which has yellow flowers, but feeds on the leaves.
Yellow and black striped Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar feeding on Ragwort, which has yellow flowers, but feeds on the leaves.

stirclacswt, to random
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Red-legged Shieldbug aka Forest Bug, in meadowland with widely-spaced Oaks today. It was interested in exploring our wooden walking-stick too!

stirclacswt,
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@felicitymartin Glad that post helped! I’m always very appreciative when people can help with IDs too, as I’m no expert myself, just continue to learn as I go along. . . .

stirclacswt, to random
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Comma butterfly zooming about among nettles along woodland edge near Logie Kirk a few days ago. Moving too fast and not settling for a photo, so the one below is from a different occasion. Information about this species here:
https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/comma
Nettle is the main foodplant for the caterpillars, which look a bit like bird droppings for camouflage.

stirclacswt, to random
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Red-necked Footman moths mating today when walking in woodland near Dunblane. Not seen this before and not seen the yellow abdomen before either, revealed when the mating pair flipped themselves over. More about the species here:

https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/red-necked-footman

Underside of same mating pair. Abdomens yellowy -orange.
One of the Red-necked Footmen from above, showing off red ‘neck’ or collar very well.

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