Glesni Lays Her First Egg - 2016
First Egg of the Season and 8th in All for Glesni
First Egg of the Season and 8th in All for Glesni
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
The angel's wings fungus grows in overlapping clusters in the coniferous woods of Scotland and north England. Its funnel-like, white caps have no stems.
This yellow-brown seaweed grows in dense masses on the mid shore of sheltered rocky shores. It is identifiable by the egg-shaped air bladders that give it its name.
The Marsh helleborine is a beautiful orchid of fens, wet grassland and dune slacks. Growing in profusion in places, look for reddish stems and white-and-pink flowers.
The gadwall is a dabbling duck, feeding at the surface of shallow water by 'upending' - putting its head down and its bottom up! Only a small number of gadwall nest in the UK, but large…
Sea lettuce is unmistakeable - most often a bright green and always translucent, it is found on all UK coasts.
Visitors to the Nest and Perches
The shiny, translucent porcelain fungus certainly lives up to its name in appearance. It can be seen growing on beech trees and dead wood in summer and autumn.
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
Water-cress has become so popular as a salad addition that it is now cultivated on a wide scale. In the wild, it grows in shallow, fast-flowing streams and is an indicator of clean water.
The Common mussel is a familiar sight on shores all around the UK and is a favourite food of people, seabirds and starfish alike.