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jdwanderlust.bsky.social
Jane (she/her)
@jdwanderlust.bsky.social
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Wildlife conservation activist. Amateur wildlife and nature photographer. Writer. Reader. All photos and writing are my own unless stated otherwise. Equality, inclusivity, diversity. Meditator. Aerial artist. Mother Nature is a healer. So is tree-hugging!
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My first ever Porcelain mushrooms. Glossy and pretty.

#fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms ##woodland
My photo of Porcelain mushrooms taken from a tilted angle. My photo of Porcelain mushrooms taken from the top angle. My photo of Porcelain mushrooms taken from the side angle.
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Laboured heaving breath
iced-glass covered mountains reached
icicle-formed tears

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #SkyPoem #crisp
My photo of the top of an icy fell. The sky is blue, and the sun is shining. There's a smattering of thin clouds just above other fells in the distance.
October 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Here are a few photos I took of jelly fungus.

#fungus
#woodland
My photo of jelly fungus. The fungus is white and rough. My photo of jelly fungus. The fungus is white and rough and in the woodland. My photo of jelly fungus. The fungus is white and rough with a light brown edge. My photo of jelly fungus. The fungus is white and rough. It's a side view.
October 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Elevating caps
network messages hidden
upwind released spores

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #SkyPoem #stem
My photo of white mushrooms growing upwards on thin stalks on the leaf litter.
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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I found my first ever Collared Earthstar yesterday. I was chuffed!

#fungi #woodland
#naturephotography
My photo of a Collared Earthstar from above. The fungus is pale brown and shaped like a very small egg. Around the centre are what look like almost triangular petals. There is leaf litter on the floor. My photo of a Collared Earthstar from the side. The fungus is pale brown and shaped like a very small egg. Around the centre are what look like almost triangular petals. There is leaf litter on the floor.
October 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Soaring condors in Peru. They may not be the most beautiful raptors but they're so graceful.

#andeancondor #Peru #wildlifephotography #birds #ornithology
My photo of a male Andean Condor in flight.
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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A lovely Cinereous Conebill in Colca Canyon.

#birds
#birdphotos
#naturephotography
#Peru
#conebill
#ornithology
My photo of a brown bird on a flowering tree. The flowers are trumpet shaped and red.
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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It's been a while.

#naturephotography
#wildlife
#Peru
#Vicuña
My photo of Vicuña. It's brown and white and there's sparse vegetation. It's looking over to the right.
October 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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My palpating heart
pupils dilating watching
Jaguar leaping

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#SkyPoem
#haiku
#joy
#wildlifephotography
#Pantanal
My photo of a Jaguar in the Pantanal. The Jaguar is partly hidden by overhanging branches with green leaves. The Jaguar is in the water. The water is brown and is coming up to its body. The Jaguar is looking over to the right.
August 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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I think this could be mating behaviour between a large and small white. I'm happy to be told otherwise. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

#whitebutterflies
#insect
#insectbehaviour
#butterfly
August 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Woodland walks and some funky fungus growing from a dead tree.

#fungusfriends
#mushroom
#naturephotography
#woodland
#trees
My photo of a dead tree trunk with orange fungus growing on it. It is on the woodland floor and has vegetation growing on it.
August 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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I love these 'Sneezewood' flowers in the garden. They keep blooming and the pollinators love them.

#gardenflowers
#sneezewood
#blooms
#Moerheimbeauty
My photo of a bunch of Sneezewood flowers. There is a fine white feather in the centre of one. The petals are red and orange.
August 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Good morning!
Book by Galle Belmont called There's a Monster Behind the Door. The front cover is a book cover opened with an orange tree growing out of it. There's also orange blossom.
August 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I also saw this very friendly forest shield bug whilst hiking through the Peaks yesterday.

#insects
#shieldbug
#naturephotography
My photo of a forest shield bug walking on stones. It has red legs.
August 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Does anyone else think this mushroom looks like a burned Yorkshire Pudding that's been dropped on the floor?

#fungi
#fungifriends
#mushrooms
#Yorkshirepudding
My photo of a black, dark brown mushroom from above the ground. There are bits of yellow peeping through. The mushroom is on grass. My photo of a black, dark brown mushroom from a side view the ground. There are bits of yellow peeping through. The mushroom is on grass.
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Iridescent flash
calm water erupts splosh! splash!
Thwack and smack of fish

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku
#SkyPoem
#kingfisher
My photo of an orange and blue Kingfisher with its head turned to the right with one eye shut. The kingfisher is on a branch, and there is water underneath the branch. My photo of an orange and blue kingfisher with a fish in its beak. The kingfisher is on a tree branch.
July 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hidden leopard full
smells another approaching
leaps forward, surprise!

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku
#tallgrass
#SkyPoem
My photo of a leopard coming out of the tall grass in South Africa with dead prey, a warthog left on the grass. The leopards belly is full. The back part of it's body is hidden by the grass. The leopard has its mouth open in a growl.
June 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I think these might be meadowood mushrooms. I'm not up on my fungi, so I'm happy to be told otherwise.

#fungifriends
#mushroom
#fungi
#woodland
A side view of a large mushroom on a tree trunk. There's grass and nettles on the woodland ground. My photo of two large mushrooms on a trunk. There's grass and nettles on the woodland ground.
June 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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My first small tortoise shell butterfly of the year sunning itself.

#butterfly
#insects
#naturephotography
#mothernature
My photo of a small tortoise shell butterfly. It has a black body with orange, white, yellow and black wings. The wings have ragged edges at the bottom.
June 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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I enjoyed seeing what I think is a large white butterfly. I'm happy to be told otherwise.

#butterfly
#woodland
#naturephotography
#largewhite
My photo of a large white butterfly on some leaves.
May 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Another brilliant book. Even if you don't know anyone with dementia, this book will give you a deeper understanding of the disease.

#dementia
#wendymitchell
#Booksky
#reading
What I wish people knew about dementia from someone who knows by Wendy Mitchell. There is an image of a brain-shaped jigsaw with a piece out of the jigsaw separated.
May 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The front and back of a linen bag I've decorated. It's something a bit different, and it's the first one I've ever done. I'm quite pleased.
The front of a white linen bag I've decorated. You can see different woodland plants such as ferns. There's also colours from dandelions and roses. The back of the linen bag I've decorated. Some yellow roses and pink rose petals have come through.
May 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I've just finished this amazing book. I truly wish it had been published before my Dad got ill. There are echoes of my Dad in there and some of me in there, too, from a carers point of view.

#dementia
#SomebodyIusedtoknow
#wendymitchell
#Booksky
#reading
Somebody I used to Know book by Wendy Mitchell.
April 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Possible inkcap mushrooms? I'm happy to be told otherwise.

#fungus
#woodland
#naturephotography
#fungifriends
A group of mushrooms in the leaf litter. They're an off-white colour.
April 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Fresh fungus on a woodland walk this morning. My first ever Chicken of the Woods, hence the numerous photos!

#fungus
#woodland
#naturephotography
#fungifriends
#chickenofthewoods
My photo of a tree with Chicken of the Woods fungus is growing out of it. It's a bracket fungus that's bright orange and yellow. My close-up photo of a tree with Chicken of the Woods fungus growing out of it. It's a bracket fungus that's bright orange and yellow. My close-up photo of a tree with Chicken of the Woods fungus growing out of it from an underneath angle. It's a bracket fungus that's bright orange and yellow. My close-up photo of a tree with Chicken of the Woods fungus growing out of it from a looking down angle. It's a bracket fungus that's bright orange and yellow.
April 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM