Pete Martin
@onloughrigg.bsky.social
Lichens and other stuff from the beautiful English Lake District and beyond.
Belated photos from the Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group trip to Glencoyne last week. Lots of upland rainforest stuff like Sphaerophorus globosus and Hypotrachyna taylorensis; more Thelotrema than I could shake my stick at. So it had to lean against it instead... #lichenGBI
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Belated photos from the Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group trip to Glencoyne last week. Lots of upland rainforest stuff like Sphaerophorus globosus and Hypotrachyna taylorensis; more Thelotrema than I could shake my stick at. So it had to lean against it instead... #lichenGBI
Spent a pleasant day out on a recce
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Spent a pleasant day out on a recce
Final @btobirds.bsky.social heron count of the year this morning. One local heronry appears deserted, the other's bigger than I've known it. Have they moved from one to t'other? We'll never know...
May 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Final @btobirds.bsky.social heron count of the year this morning. One local heronry appears deserted, the other's bigger than I've known it. Have they moved from one to t'other? We'll never know...
It has been a good year for the Irises.
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It has been a good year for the Irises.
Made it out today, and explored the currently very dry beck: more Dermatocarpon luridum than I was expecting; a rather fine stonefly larva; an old metal and wire contraption. 4 species of warbler heard, otter spraint found, and I have Verrucaria samples to "investigate at a later date". #LichenGBI
May 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Made it out today, and explored the currently very dry beck: more Dermatocarpon luridum than I was expecting; a rather fine stonefly larva; an old metal and wire contraption. 4 species of warbler heard, otter spraint found, and I have Verrucaria samples to "investigate at a later date". #LichenGBI
Lovely morning yesterday at Thorneythwaite: new locations for Sticta sylvatica and Ricasolia laetevirens; crying-out-for-rain Wilson's filmy fern and new-species-for-the-site Leptogium cyanescens. The sunshine and shade was awful for photos; but great to be in. And a willow warbler singing too!
April 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Lovely morning yesterday at Thorneythwaite: new locations for Sticta sylvatica and Ricasolia laetevirens; crying-out-for-rain Wilson's filmy fern and new-species-for-the-site Leptogium cyanescens. The sunshine and shade was awful for photos; but great to be in. And a willow warbler singing too!
In my garden, fresh out this aft. Roll up, roll up ( or should that be flap up, flap up...)
April 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In my garden, fresh out this aft. Roll up, roll up ( or should that be flap up, flap up...)
Mid-March, and once again the early wood anemones down by the river have opened. #WildflowerHour
March 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Mid-March, and once again the early wood anemones down by the river have opened. #WildflowerHour
A fine day at Tilberthwaite yesterday, exploring old copper works and slate quarries with Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group. Blastenia (was Caloplaca) crenularia; Collema furfuraceum; Rhizocarpon oederi surrounded by Acarospora sinopica. Reds in the settling beds! #LichenGBI
March 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A fine day at Tilberthwaite yesterday, exploring old copper works and slate quarries with Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group. Blastenia (was Caloplaca) crenularia; Collema furfuraceum; Rhizocarpon oederi surrounded by Acarospora sinopica. Reds in the settling beds! #LichenGBI
Couldn't resist the #YellowFlowers among the rubbish at the edge of the Co-op car park in Bolton Le Sands: Coltsfoot and Groundsel. #WildflowerHour
March 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Couldn't resist the #YellowFlowers among the rubbish at the edge of the Co-op car park in Bolton Le Sands: Coltsfoot and Groundsel. #WildflowerHour
Out west for a couple of days
February 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Out west for a couple of days
A morning's bramble bashing to reduce the shading out of Collema flaccidum, Pseudoschismatomma rufescens and Pertusaria pertusa on some favourite dying ash trees. Ooh look! Primroses are revealed... chaffinches sing. #LichenGBI
February 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A morning's bramble bashing to reduce the shading out of Collema flaccidum, Pseudoschismatomma rufescens and Pertusaria pertusa on some favourite dying ash trees. Ooh look! Primroses are revealed... chaffinches sing. #LichenGBI
Great to be out again with Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte group (after a gap of several months). Seatoller woods: mostly acid bark stuff including Ochrolechia tartarea and more Hypotrachyna taylorensis than I've ever seen before. Also Pyrenula acutispora: new to me. #LichenGBI
February 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Great to be out again with Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte group (after a gap of several months). Seatoller woods: mostly acid bark stuff including Ochrolechia tartarea and more Hypotrachyna taylorensis than I've ever seen before. Also Pyrenula acutispora: new to me. #LichenGBI
Lovely day wandering near Claife. Found some interesting graffiti, some Mycoblastus sanguinarius; a little Chrysothrix candelaris and Lecanactis abietina. #LichenGBI
February 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Lovely day wandering near Claife. Found some interesting graffiti, some Mycoblastus sanguinarius; a little Chrysothrix candelaris and Lecanactis abietina. #LichenGBI
Lichens from another stunner of a blue skied Lakeland day. Oodles of Lasallia pustulata; unexpected Sphaerophorus fragilis; the pareidolia of a face in a map lichen island; prolifically fertile Usnea subfloridana. #LichenGBI
January 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Lichens from another stunner of a blue skied Lakeland day. Oodles of Lasallia pustulata; unexpected Sphaerophorus fragilis; the pareidolia of a face in a map lichen island; prolifically fertile Usnea subfloridana. #LichenGBI
Finds from todays woodland blunderings (among the wreckage of #StormArwen 3 years on): Hypotrachyna laevigata (happiest on a felled larch); Graphis elegans; Coniocarpon cinnabarinum; Opposite Leaved Golden Saxifrage flowering already!
January 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Finds from todays woodland blunderings (among the wreckage of #StormArwen 3 years on): Hypotrachyna laevigata (happiest on a felled larch); Graphis elegans; Coniocarpon cinnabarinum; Opposite Leaved Golden Saxifrage flowering already!
Meadows morning after Rowan's roar: woodpeckers drum, redwing tseep, dunnock song rolls along. The alder catkin chequers grow more purple by the day...
January 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Meadows morning after Rowan's roar: woodpeckers drum, redwing tseep, dunnock song rolls along. The alder catkin chequers grow more purple by the day...
There are some big cats about...
January 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are some big cats about...
Loughrigg this afternoon. The conditions are absolutely delightful. Wol was at home. I could get used to this...
January 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Loughrigg this afternoon. The conditions are absolutely delightful. Wol was at home. I could get used to this...
Blencathra looking good this morning eh @blencathratim.bsky.social ? I like shiny extra-white summit line.
January 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Blencathra looking good this morning eh @blencathratim.bsky.social ? I like shiny extra-white summit line.
Not for the first time, I turned to the late Mike Davis for my bedtime reading...
January 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Not for the first time, I turned to the late Mike Davis for my bedtime reading...
Winter weather made the Lakes and winter weather makes the Lakes. But there's unexpected signs of spring too...
January 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Winter weather made the Lakes and winter weather makes the Lakes. But there's unexpected signs of spring too...
12th night, so Big Mantelpiece Birdwatch time (like @rspb.bsky.social's garden birdwatch only with cards).
And there's big news: for the first time ever Robin isn't in the top 5! Doves the winner this year, with Avocet a new entry.
My favourite was this Sun Owl and foliage by Kenojuak Ashevak...
And there's big news: for the first time ever Robin isn't in the top 5! Doves the winner this year, with Avocet a new entry.
My favourite was this Sun Owl and foliage by Kenojuak Ashevak...
January 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
12th night, so Big Mantelpiece Birdwatch time (like @rspb.bsky.social's garden birdwatch only with cards).
And there's big news: for the first time ever Robin isn't in the top 5! Doves the winner this year, with Avocet a new entry.
My favourite was this Sun Owl and foliage by Kenojuak Ashevak...
And there's big news: for the first time ever Robin isn't in the top 5! Doves the winner this year, with Avocet a new entry.
My favourite was this Sun Owl and foliage by Kenojuak Ashevak...
Afternoon wander up to Lily Tarn. Found a snake and some new Ophioparma ventosa. Gorgeous light.
January 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Afternoon wander up to Lily Tarn. Found a snake and some new Ophioparma ventosa. Gorgeous light.
And Ambleside Natural History Society produced a nature trail in the 1960s. We ( ANHS) rewalked it last year: if you want I can send you details/ the route. Here's one of the woodcuts by Harold Auty that illustrated it.
January 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
And Ambleside Natural History Society produced a nature trail in the 1960s. We ( ANHS) rewalked it last year: if you want I can send you details/ the route. Here's one of the woodcuts by Harold Auty that illustrated it.