Digging out wet woodland in Gunnersbury Triangle, seen from the boardwalk bridge. The “carr” steadily silts up with mud, leaves and roots. Here the team is carefully preserving the rushes and gypsywort, removing mud to a spade’s depth. The mud will be graded to form a gentle transition from the deeper areas, which only dry out in midsummer, to the dry bank that’s covered in holly.
A fiery Aspen leaf in natural colour, exactly as it wasAutumn Sunset, colours exactly as recorded by the cameraBramble Leaf in SunbeamsRowan as a Street Tree, unprocessed coloursFallen Aspen Leaves. Again, these are the colours straight from the camera
“It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the [U.S.] Indians” – Jair Bolsonaro, President-elect of Brazil
In the view of the charity Survival International, which campaigns to save tribal peoples everywhere, Bolsonaro’s “racist views represent the gravest threat to Brazil’s tribal peoples in decades. ”
Unloading wheelbarrows from roof of Land-Rover at Fray’s Farm, one of London Wildlife Trust’s numerous reserves on the western edge of London. All we needed to do was to find the logs!We fanned out across the reserve looking for log-piles. On the way, I found this beautiful Oak in full autumnal splendour, as well as a buzzard, a red kite, and a common darter dragonfly (not bad for mid-November), and a brief glimpse of a roe deer. Jules found a handsome Carabid ground beetle.Anna and Netty loading the spoils. The logs were covered in lichens and the ones which had lain a year or two with elegant curtain crust fungi as well.
Willow Emerald Damselfly Eggs in Willow Twig. The female cuts a slit in the bark for each egg. The cuts have healed up (by now, November) leaving a bump around each egg.Willow Emerald Damselfly (photographed earlier this year). The species is very new to Britain, having arrived last year or not long before that; and this year is the first time we’ve seen them at Gunnersbury Triangle, so it’s very exciting to see the unique egg-laying traces!Netty with glorious autumnal Aspen twig. The colours are exactly as photographed.
Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare on Birch loggery at Gunnersbury Triangle (down the entrance ramp)Sulphur Tuft on the ground, among Ivy and BrambleTurkeytail Trametes versicolorGreat Tit egg, found abandoned as we checked and cleaned out the nestboxes for the year
The English seem unemotional … except for their passion for nature
