James Emerson

@norwichbirder.bsky.social

Naturalist living in Norfolk (UK) - particularly interested in birds, fungi, psyllids and shieldbugs (also real ale, Forteana etc) Local patch = Whitlingham C.P. and the wider Norwich area.
Sporadically updated blog: http://jamesbirdsandbeer.blogspot.com/

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Bittersweet, Solanum dulcamara. Look out for the leaf mine of the micro moth Acrolepia autumnitella also known as the Bittersweet Fanner, the Bittersweet Smudge and the Speckled Bittersweet moth. The mine is a translucent blotch and the larva is whitish-green with a pale brown head.

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Well the wait for the 1st UK/ROI Nutcracker of 2026 goes on & on whilst Europe is weighed down by them. In the meantime, here's some prime 1968 archive.
The diary notes are Richard Richardson's + a short BB piece.
The photo is by @yarmouthbirder.bsky.social 👍
#norfolkbirding
#rarebirdsuk
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These are three of the enormous variety of fungi that are currenlty fruiting in and around Hay-on-Wye (where I live).

I was lucky enough to get to paint all three from life, while selling prints and cards in Hay castle, and chatting to visitors to the Fungitown festival last weekend #dreamjob

Brown #Roll-rim #Paxillus involutus #botanicalillustration of this poisonous #fungus illustrated from life at this year's annual #Fungitown festival in #Hayonwye. The fungus is brown with decurrent yellow gills stretching down the stipe, and a distinctive brown in-rolled wavy edge. The stipe is brown and there's detritus like soil and dead grass at the base. Cut to white, #watercolour #illustration#Echinoderma hystrix #Fungus illustrated from life at this year's annual #Fungitown festival in #Hayonwye. This beautiful little white fungus does not have an English name. It is covered all over in brownish black scales, including on the stipe. There are small dark red blobs where the white gills touch the cap edge, these are fluid produced in a process called #gutteration. Cut-to-white #sciart #naturalhistoryillustration done in #watercolor #naturalhistoryillustration #Scaberstalk #Bolete #Leccinum cyanobasaileucum #naturalhistoryillustration completed at Fungitown in Hay on wye. It has a very domed dark brown cap, a textured stipe (with soil at the base) and pale spongy hymeium. The #naturalscienceillustration shows slug damage on the cap where pale flesh shows through the brown colouration. Cut to white and illustrated #byhand
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Call for evidence! What's the strangest place you have found a roosting bat? Please share your stories so we can share them at the mini conference. Photos and videos all welcome.

@richardkbroughton.bsky.socialReposted by @norwichbirder.bsky.social

Two interesting things: 1. by 1964 the squirrels in nature books and public perception were already Grey. 2. the Rooks collecting acorns. Jays get all the press for dispersing and planting acorns, but Rooks do it a lot too, and are likely also very important dispersers of oaks. Magpies too.

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A few fungi from a visit to Roydon Common on Tuesday 6/10 - one of a large group of Deathcaps around an oak, the underside of a Fairy-ring Champignon, and Sphagnum Greyling and Sphagnum Brownie both found near the edge of the mire.

#fungifriends

A young Deathcap Amanita phalloides fungus with a greenish-ellow cap, white stem and the volva visible at the baseThe underside of a Fairy-ring Champignon Marasmius oreadesA Sphagnum Greyling Sphagnurus paluster emerging from a clump of Sphagnum mossA Sphagnum Brownie Hypholoma elongatum with alight brown cap and very long, slender stem, emerging from Sphagnum moss and surrounded by Purple Moor-grass, Heather and Cranberry
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