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Bob McIntosh
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Natural world of Penicuik, geology, geo collections 🇺🇦
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Turkish oak acorn cup
An angled view looking into one acorn cup of a pair. Sitting on moss.
January 17, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Fallen hair ice
A few chunky wisps of very fine hair ice on the woodland floor. It has fallen from a log
January 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Turkish oak acorn case
A double Turkish oak acorn case with characteristic prickly acorn cap. Looking like a tentacles of sea anemone
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Icicles in the burn
A long row of short fairly thick icicles dangling down on the bank of the burn
January 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Frozen burn
Looking directly down at a burn that is completely frozen over with angular ice patterns. A few well rounded stones in the bottom third of the photo appear to be the focus of ice growth
January 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Hair ice day - this one is in the garden
A small bare branch has curly/wavy hair ice growing from it
January 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Friendly bull
A very large bull in a grassy field, brown body with white curly hair on the head
December 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Sheep field
Landscape photograph of an expansive, airy, grassy field, slight slope to the left. Sheep are dotted around the field. a distant, ragged treeline can be seen, above a bright blue sky and intermittent clouds
December 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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#lichen on a wall
A flat stone surface is covered with interlocking lichen of irregular shapes a dark line between different lichen make them stand out
December 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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A new #slimemould today
Bunches of small tightly packed orange coloured slime moulds growing on moss, lots of separate clumps merging together in places
December 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Hairy Curtain Crust #fungi
Close-up photo of single Hairy Curtain Crust growing as a small bracket from a fallen log. Brownish yellow in colour the top surface is uneven and spiky
December 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Two fungi Purple Jellydisc and Hairy Curtain Crust #fungi
Close-up of two contrasting fungi. On the left is a purple jellydisc, on the right horizontal wavy layers of Hairy Curtain crust - a bright yellow fungus
December 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Yet another hair ice!
A log covered in masses of fine hair ice
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Hair ice
A large fallen log has masses of hair ice growing from it
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Hair ice
A fallen branch in top right has a large lower fringe of curved wispy hair ice growing from it
December 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Hair ice day today!
A fallen log angled from top right to bottom left is covered in wisps of ice
December 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Witch's butter #fungi
Yellow jelly-like fungus growing down from a gorse branch
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Out in the fields today
A stone wall curves round a to right and recedes into the distance. On the left trees grow right up to the wall, on the right is a grassy farm track and then a field with a just starting to grow crop
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Scarlet elf cup #fungi
A solitary scarlet elf cup. Rounded cup shaped with slight in-turned cup. Inside is bright red and shiny, outside is much lighter and with a matt surface
December 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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A day later.... #slimemould
December 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Closer view of the #slimemould
December 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Fine #slimemould
A mass of gold/yellow slime moulds hanging down from threads. On mossy wood
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Spalting in beech
A recently sawn fallen tree shows spalting growing from the centre. At the bottom it terminates at a bell defined spiky edge
December 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Velvet shank #fungi
View from slightly underneath the velvet shank. The top of the caps are highly gossy and sticky, underneath there is a clear view of the gills
December 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Winter! Velvet shanks have appeared #fungi
A good mass of overlapping Velvet shank fungi growing on a stump. They are in a line from top left to bottom right of the frame
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM