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@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 8:07 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Safely home from the Brum run, and everyone's happy, though even though it's my 5th year of doing it I don't think I'll ever get used to dropping them off! Here's yesterday's lunch walk, with #fungi #fruit and #butterflies from drizzly #Lancashire! @thephotohour.bsky.social #vitaminN

Top left to right; speckled wood, ripe apples, red admiral
Middle; turkey tails, nastertium and deceivers
Bottom; flu agaric, stump puffball and plums & custard

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 7:34 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Tickled pink on my lunch walk today, avoided the showers, saw beautiful #butterflies, beautiful #flowers and plums and custard pink #mushrooms! The season is changing fast. @thephotohour.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN

Bee sheltering from rain, red admiral, cone head flowers, unknown red ones, asters, zinnias, roses, plums & custard mushroom, blusher, hoverfly on pink potentila, speckled wood on seedum, red admiral, wasps IN apple and painted lady

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 6:18 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk, a different path today brought dozens of colourful #fungi after all the rain in #Lancashire; turkey tails, redlead Roundhead, deceivers and blushers! 😍 No sign of fly agaric just yet, but a playful hare sprang in front of us! @thephotohour.bsky.social details in ALT

Clockwise from top left; turkey tails, great coloured deceiver, dead mens fingers, redlead Roundheads, red admiral butterfly, red Acer leaves, blusher aminata, raindrops on ladies mantle, conehead flowers, a mighty tree, and a hare!

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 5:48 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk from Sunday's glorious circular from #Lakeside to #Finsthwaite via Hard Knott Wood. Steam train, herdy's, #butterflies, birds and #blueskies. Fantastic 😍 @thephotohour.bsky.social #Cumbria #vitaminN #Windermere

Clockwise from top left; lake reflections, pretty flowers, signalbox, horse, a sheep stained glass window, speckled wood & red leaves, Herdwick sheep, small copper, witches hat fungus, harebells, Newby Bridge, St Peters Finsthwaite, railway bridge, a preening swan, sunflowers at the ferry terminal, green veined white, painted lady & steam train

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 7:01 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk from my sunny Friday lunch walk with blooms and #butterflies. It's been another lovely day in #Lancashire today and I saw a painted lady on my way home. @thephotohour.bsky.social #vitaminN

Clockwise from top left; a tree eye watching me, fresh speckled wood, painted lady, bramble leaves turning colour, blue skies, common, red admiral, speckled wood, cosmos, speckled wood on Japanese anemone and changing leaves

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 4:20 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Damp in #Preston this morning so we took advantage of #HeritageOpenDays and climbed the spire at #StWalburges for great views before visiting #StGeorges in the town centre. Fantastic #StainedGlass in both & incredible ceilings. @thephotohour.bsky.social #HOD #architecture #Lancashire

Fabulous stained glass windows at not St Walburge's & St George's both open for Heritage Open Days

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 6:47 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Overcast but still the #butterflies were out, quite flighty though so only got shots of a red admiral & closed wing comma. Lovely colours around echoing the changeover of seasons as summer bows down to autumn. #Lancashire @thephotohour.bsky.social #vitaminN

Clockwise from top left; red admiral on seedum, helenium, hydrangea, garden spider, changing leaves, unknown pink flower, lords and ladies berries, comma on seedum, rudbeckia, a huge tree, hydrangea, cosmos and pleated inkcap mushroom

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 7:50 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Warm sunshine on my lunch walk & pretty colourful #flowers attracting my beloved #butterflies. They seem all the more precious this time of year when I see less of them! A huge frog leapt onto my welly and away too! @thephotohour.bsky.social #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Micklemas daisies, Joe pyeweed, helenium, cosmos, Japanese anemone and brambles attracting comma, painted lady, small tortoiseshell, red admiral, speckled wood and numerous white butterflies too fast to photograph!

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 5:48 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Sunday part 2, after deer watching in the morning we spent the afternoon at @chesterzoo.bsky.social, taking advantage of their 3 hour £10 tickets, heck we covered a lot in that time! My favouritea were the horned lizard & flamingos. @thephotohour.bsky.social #Wildlife

Left hand side top to bottom; scarlet ibis, gharial, gibbon, Indian rhinoceros, flamingos, a hiding tiger
Middle top to bottom; elephants, tiger, horned lizard, tropical flowers in the butterfly house
Right hand side top to bottom; Sifaka, orangutan, tropical bird & flowers, blue morpho butterfly and a vulture.

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 7:30 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk From yesterday morning, we were celebrating my son's birthday with a day of #nature, our 1st stop being a visit to #TattonPark to watch the deer, before visiting the champion trees & beautiful #flowers. @thephotohour.bsky.social #Cheshire

Clockwise from top left; dahlias in pretty shades of orange and pink, a robin, sweet chestnuts, fungi, a carriage, deer both red and fallow, red admiral, the glorious carousel, double marigolds, trained fruit trees in the kitchen garden & folly

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 6:46 PM

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Local wander dodging showers in #Preston this morning, when it settled out came the #butterflies including a pretty pair of small copper & speckled wood. Nice to see #fungi emerging & a batman #hoverfly. @thephotohour.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN