Judy Webb
judywebb.bsky.social
Judy Webb
@judywebb.bsky.social
Ecologist, Palynologist (pollen expert) quite good at Botany, Entomology & Mycology. Conservationist. Ex School Teacher, Ex Forensic Scientist.
Sphagnum mosses are so beautiful
Sphagnum fallax var brevifolium, S. Flexuosum and S. medium/divinum #moss #bryophyte
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Cladonia diversa is very variable, with some podetia bearing swollen bright red fruiting bodies, and others just tiny red studs on the cup rim. Heaths and dunes.
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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The local Great Spotted Woodpeckers are fully into the aerial pursuit phase of their breeding season. Three birds were chasing each other continually over the Lye Valley area, Oxford, this morning, giving these calls:

macaulaylibrary.org/asset/649848...

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#UKbirding
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I'm so fond of caterpillars!
Let’s have a little love for larvae… 🐛

🎥 By James Bashford
🎶 Caterpillar Crawl by The Lively Ones
🌟 Created in Edits

#NatureWithin #TeamMoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Slime mold, Stemonitopsis typhina.
NWT, Canada. #fungifriends #myxomycetes. The slime mold is about 1cm high.
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 AM
This has been confirmed by DNA analysis as being Cortinarius lividomalvaceus. With oak on a road verge in Oxon. Maybe new to Britain...Hoping to get the verge a County Road Verge Nature Reserve, the first for fungi in county! many other nice woodland fungi here as well #fungifriends
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Wow, furniture designed to look like fungi!
Fungus designed furniture by Paulo Octavious 🍄
January 27, 2026 at 8:54 AM
A really pretty lichen..
Lichen, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca (orange rock posy lichen). NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
The photo covers about 4cm left to right.
January 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Birch polypore, or Razor-strop fungus - for finishing off the sharpening of your cut-throat razor.
January 24, 2026 at 12:02 PM
We all need some good news like this..
"The discovery launched a coordinated national effort of artificial egg incubation, captive breeding, relocation to predator-free offshore islands, and other measures that brought takahē back from the brink."
🦤🐦‍⬛🐦 #Takahē #NewZealand #Maori #Conservation #Wildlife #Nature #Biology #AmazingCritters
The Tenacious Takahē - bioGraphic
Once declared extinct, the world’s largest species of rail is returning to its former range in New Zealand.
www.biographic.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:54 AM
A remarkable fungus, alien looking
First time seen devil's fingers in the wild
@ Waitakere Ranges, Auckland
📷🍄 #Mushrooms #fungi
January 24, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Some winter sunshine triggering ten species into song in the Lye Valley, Oxford, this morning, including the first singing Greenfinches of the year and a very brief burst of Blackcap song (in January!):

ebird.org/checklist/S2...

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@patchbirding.bsky.social
#ukbirding
eBird Checklist - 24 Jan 2026 - Lye Valley & Warneford Meadow - 40 species
Submitted by Tom Bedford.
ebird.org
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Lovely flower illustrations, what a book to have!
Day 24 of my ‘getting through January vintage floral plates from books’, illustrations from Wild flowers of the British isles Isobel Adams 1904
#botanical-illustration. I feel very lucky to own a volume of this book with beautiful paintings. Extra images today because the weathers been so awful.
January 24, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Biodiversity is incredible. Who could imagine this strange and beautiful deep sea fish?
After the recent rare sighting of this deep-sea wonder right off the coast of Monterey Bay, we decided to dig into our archives and share a few more glimpses of this fantastically frilly fish (Trachipterus altivelis).
January 23, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Magpie (Pica pica) displaying its fantastically colourful tail feathers for Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #TailsUp. And to think many people think of Magpies as just being black and white!
#birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #LyeValley #WildlifePhotography
January 22, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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🎵 We're raking in the rain,
Just raking in the rain,
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again 🎵

Despite heavy rain this morning we continued to rake cut material on part of our #SSSI onto drag sheets to build up the soft eroded peat banks of the Lye Brook.
#FenRestoration #OxfordshireFens #OX3
🌰🌍
January 21, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Arched Earthstar, Geastrum fornicatum.

In a churchyard in South Norfolk, seen on yesterday's bike ride.

www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2024/02/22/a...

#Fungi #FungiFriends
January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Flammulina velutipes by Hans Walty #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
January 20, 2026 at 8:43 PM
One to look out for on deadwood now..
Winter Polypore, Polyporus brumalis.

East Winch Common, on yesterday's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray.

www.first-nature.com/fungi/polypo...

#Fungi #FungiFriends
January 19, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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For @alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme today I have a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) on an old log pile in low #WinterLight in Oxford's #LyeValley. Such restless birds!
#birds #UKWildlife #WildlifePhotography #EastCoastKin
January 19, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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If you are in the Oxford area on Friday evening, I’m presenting a talk about the birds of the Lye Valley area. It’s a one hour multimedia celebration (sounds and pictures!) of some of the amazing birds recorded in this area of the city. All welcome.
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#Oxford #birds
January 19, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Fungi can be so weird. Why is guttation necessary?
Fungus or a festive ornament? 🍄This small, spheroid fungus (Abortiporus biennis) was found on decaying wood, its main nutrient source, in an urban park in Nanning, China. The vivid red liquid settled on the white surface is guttation – when fungi excrete their internal liquid.  

📸 Junjie Liu
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM