Waterloo Plantation
Neat Feather-moss (Pseudoscleropodium purum)
Slime Mold Sp
Fungus Sp
Pezizia Sp
A sample brown spore 8 µm x 5 µm
Pelargonium Webcap (Cortinarius flexipes) amongst Rough-stalked Feather-moss (Brachythecium rutabulum) under Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Crimped Gill (Plicatura crispa)
Superb Moss Landscape that had both White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans) and Trunk Pawort (Barbilophozia attenuata)
White Earwort perianths
White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans) in amongst Fine Hair Moss (Dicranella heteromalla)
Trunk Pawort (Barbilophozia attenuata)
Fine Hair Moss (Dicranella heteromalla)
Birch Polypore (Piptoporus betulinus)
Yellow Club
Fungus Sp
Fungus Sp
Gall on a Beech leaf
A gall caused by a midge called Hartigiola annulipes
Thanks to James Emerson @Norwichbirder for the id.
Hoof Fungus (Comes fomentarius)
Mosscap Fungus (Rickenella fibula)
Mazegill Sp
Smallburgh Fen
Thick-nerved Apple-moss (Philonotis calcarea) with a single strand of Marsh Bryum (bryum pseudotriquetrum)
With a single strand of a Caliiergionella Sp on the left of the image.
Yellow Starry Feather-moss (Campyllum stellatum var stellatum)
Maidenhair Pocket-moss (Fissidens adianthoides)
Intermediate Hook-moss (Scorpidium cossonii)
A Norfolk Common
Pale Tussock Moth (Calliteara pudibunda)
Cell structure at base of leaf x 400
Leaf tip x100
Leaf tip cells x 400
A Dicranum Sp ? with crinkled leaves.
turned out to be
Crisped Fork-moss (Dicranum bonjeanii)
Heath Plait-moss (Hypnum jutlandicum)
Common Haircap Moss (Polytrichum commune)
Leaf Tip x400
Strict Haircap (Polytrichum strictum)
You can see the unrolled leaf margins in the photos and the brown tip is untoothed. It grows in hummocks.
Not the best of pictures but it does clearly show the inrolled margins of the leaf.
Strict Haircap (Polytrichum strictum)
One of the first things to do when beginning to identify Sphagnums is deciding whether the branch leaves are hooded or not. In this case the branch leaves have no 3 dimensionality about them and are therefor not hooded.
The next thing is do to pinch the top bud (capitulum) away from the branches it sits on.
If it leaves a ruff of stem leaves like the one you can see in the image above it is likely to be Sphagnum fimbriatum.
Sphagnum fimbriatum is also quite brittle and the capitulum comes away easily in your fingers. Some Sphagnums are much tougher.
To go a step further you need to look at the shape of the stem leaves.
In this case the stem leaf is twice as wide as it is long.
Sphagnum fimbriatum
Blunt-leaved Bog Moss (Sphagnum palustre)
Sphagnum Sp?
Broom Fork-moss (Dicranum scoparium)
Silky Forklet-moss (Dicranella heteromalla) & Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata)
Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata)
Bog Groove-moss (Aulacomnium palustre)
Cley
A very still late afternoon - evening at Cley.
At least three Caspian Gulls came into roost. An adult, 2nd Winter, & 1st Winter
Pinkfeet (Anser brachyrhynchos)
Pinkfeet dropping into roost at Cley
Felbrigg
Eristalis Sp
Myothropa florea ♂︎
European Hornet (Vespa crabro)
Helophilus pendulus
Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae)
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Sericomyia silentis
Syrphus Sp
Titchwell
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
With all the new earthworks on the Titchwell scrape the Golden Plover were within reach of a lens.
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
A small flock of Knot (Calidris canutus) & a few Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) on the tide line.
A few Curlew (Numenius arquata) delicately picking at the shells
A Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) giving a consumate display of fishing skills in a tide pool.
and
a
small party
of
Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
dropped in for a few moments.
Snettisham
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Knot & Oystercatcher
Knot (Calidris canutus)
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegius)
Pink Footed Geese (Anser Brachyrhynchus)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Yellow-horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum)
Cley - Salthouse - Weybourne
Cley Beach
Brent geese (Branta bernicla)
Guillemot (Uria aalge)
Yes. The Cormorant had it.
Salthouse Beach
Red Throated Diver (Gavia stellata)
Weybourne Beach
Guillemot (Uria aalge)
Danby Wood & Marston Marsh
Dead Man's Fingers
Ladybird
Speckled Wood
Intermediate Screw-moss (Syntrichia intermedia)?
Although growing st the base of a Poplar tree.
The leaf has a waist, recurved margins below the waist and the hair point has small coarse teeth. Also spirals when it is dry.
Bluish Veilwort (Metzgeria fruticulosa)
Green Yoke-moss (Zygadon viridissimus)
A very small Fissidens growing on Chalk soil in Danby Wood just on the edge of Norwich.
Presumed Green Pocket-moss (Fissidens viridulis)
Does have a border and the edge of the leave appears concave.
Rough-stalked Feather-moss (Brachythecium rutabulum)
Norfolk Bryophytes
Some Bryophytes found in Norfolk in October
A very small Fissidens growing on Chalk soil in Danby Wood just on the edge of Norwich.
Presumed Green Pocket-moss (Fissidens viridulis)
Does have a border and the edge of the leave appears concave.
Green Yoke-moss (Zygodon viridissimus) with one or two
Bluish Veilwort (Metzgeria fruticulosa)
Fox-tail Feather-moss (Thamnobryum alopecurum)
This 'normally' stands up like a tree. A tree-like moss. But on this occasion it was lying flat down a steep roadside bank.
Having been to Wales recently where it grows in streams and looks very different from its 'normal' self this one also took a while to identify.
This is a branch leaf whereas the stem leaves have a much broader end close to the stem.
BBS Website description.
Young Nees' Pellia (Pellia neesiana) from the base of the Cliffs at Cromer.
Intermediate Screw-moss (Syntrichia intermedia)?
Although growing st the base of a Poplar tree.
The leaf has a waist, recurved margins below the waist and the hair point has small coarse teeth. Also spirals when it is dry.