Roger_TL45Y
@rogerhorton.bsky.social
Retired scientist. Prone to 🌱 fads: Artemisas|Calamints|Crataegus|Medicks|Poplars|Goldilocks|Solanum|Dipsacus|Ferns. FLS. Cambridge UK but often in Suffolk 📷: Whooper Swans at Lakenheath. TL45Y =tetrad (2x2km square) round Cherry Hinton. ❤️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 & Berlin
Kestrel eats tree. Snapping photos into the sun yesterday I couldn't see what the bird was doing but cropping several of the shots it appears to have been pecking at bark. 🤔
RSPB Lakenheath #Suffok #SuffolkBirds
RSPB Lakenheath #Suffok #SuffolkBirds
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Kestrel eats tree. Snapping photos into the sun yesterday I couldn't see what the bird was doing but cropping several of the shots it appears to have been pecking at bark. 🤔
RSPB Lakenheath #Suffok #SuffolkBirds
RSPB Lakenheath #Suffok #SuffolkBirds
Female Reed Bunting where else but on a reed at RSPB Lakenheath for #BirdOfTheDay. If you've seen #Suffolk today you'll know this is yesterday's bird!
#SuffolkBirds
#SuffolkBirds
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Female Reed Bunting where else but on a reed at RSPB Lakenheath for #BirdOfTheDay. If you've seen #Suffolk today you'll know this is yesterday's bird!
#SuffolkBirds
#SuffolkBirds
Pointing the way to Joists Fen viewpoint at RSPB Lakenheath in yesterday’s sunshine. Looking down the path over Nigel’s bridge towards plantations of hybrid poplars. #FingerpostFriday #Suffolk
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Pointing the way to Joists Fen viewpoint at RSPB Lakenheath in yesterday’s sunshine. Looking down the path over Nigel’s bridge towards plantations of hybrid poplars. #FingerpostFriday #Suffolk
Great photo! Mares tails over Suffolk UK yesterday. They got the forecast right. Today 6mm rain and it’s not light yet. ☔️
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Great photo! Mares tails over Suffolk UK yesterday. They got the forecast right. Today 6mm rain and it’s not light yet. ☔️
Here’s the Fitzwilliam version!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Here’s the Fitzwilliam version!
Leaf mines of fly larvae, maybe Phytomyza lappae in Burdock. Icklingham #Suffolk.
#WildWebsWednesday
#WildWebsWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Leaf mines of fly larvae, maybe Phytomyza lappae in Burdock. Icklingham #Suffolk.
#WildWebsWednesday
#WildWebsWednesday
A discerning Buff-tailed Bumblebee on Narrow-leaved Ragwort when there was Common Ragwort available.
#WildWebsWednesday
#WildWebsWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A discerning Buff-tailed Bumblebee on Narrow-leaved Ragwort when there was Common Ragwort available.
#WildWebsWednesday
#WildWebsWednesday
Somewhere within that thicket of Gorse there's the trunk of a Walnut tree! Icklingham #Suffolk. #ThickTrunkTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Somewhere within that thicket of Gorse there's the trunk of a Walnut tree! Icklingham #Suffolk. #ThickTrunkTuesday
An autumnal lime tree with its suckers and lower branches trimmed back as far as they can reach by sheep showing its trunk. Icklingham #Suffolk. #ThickTrunkTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
An autumnal lime tree with its suckers and lower branches trimmed back as far as they can reach by sheep showing its trunk. Icklingham #Suffolk. #ThickTrunkTuesday
Great Spotted Woodpecker exit right. It had perched perfectly for a minute before I raised the camera. 😉
At @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes.
#SuffolkBirds #Suffolk #BirdOfTheDay
At @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes.
#SuffolkBirds #Suffolk #BirdOfTheDay
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Great Spotted Woodpecker exit right. It had perched perfectly for a minute before I raised the camera. 😉
At @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes.
#SuffolkBirds #Suffolk #BirdOfTheDay
At @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes.
#SuffolkBirds #Suffolk #BirdOfTheDay
Unmissable colour on an exposed tree stump on Icklingham Plains in the #Suffolk #Brecks. Could it be Golden Dust #Lichen, Chrysothrix candelaris, (but that likes shade) or Orange Rock Hair, Trentepohlia aurea, (but it's not on rock). 🤔
Any ideas please Rob?
@robyaxley.bsky.social
Any ideas please Rob?
@robyaxley.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Unmissable colour on an exposed tree stump on Icklingham Plains in the #Suffolk #Brecks. Could it be Golden Dust #Lichen, Chrysothrix candelaris, (but that likes shade) or Orange Rock Hair, Trentepohlia aurea, (but it's not on rock). 🤔
Any ideas please Rob?
@robyaxley.bsky.social
Any ideas please Rob?
@robyaxley.bsky.social
Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus, with an honour guard Shaggy Soldiers, Galinsoga quadriradiata, each as a #PavementPlant in #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour.
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus, with an honour guard Shaggy Soldiers, Galinsoga quadriradiata, each as a #PavementPlant in #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour.
Flowers and berries of Black Nightshade, #Solanum nigrum, in the corner of a neglected car park in central #Cambridge.
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Flowers and berries of Black Nightshade, #Solanum nigrum, in the corner of a neglected car park in central #Cambridge.
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
Lucerne aka Alfalfa, Medicago sativa sativa as a #PavementPlant in #Cambridge, still in flower but with >2-turn spiral seed pods. #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Lucerne aka Alfalfa, Medicago sativa sativa as a #PavementPlant in #Cambridge, still in flower but with >2-turn spiral seed pods. #WildflowerHour
Ten flower photos from Icklingham Plains #Suffolk. Area is seasonal Open Access so only just open since 1st Nov and fortunately its been a warm start to the month. Got carried away with colour variation in Maiden Pink, Dianthus deltoides, so strictly not eligible for #TheWinter10 😉 #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ten flower photos from Icklingham Plains #Suffolk. Area is seasonal Open Access so only just open since 1st Nov and fortunately its been a warm start to the month. Got carried away with colour variation in Maiden Pink, Dianthus deltoides, so strictly not eligible for #TheWinter10 😉 #WildflowerHour
Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, in the margin of a sandy field margin at Icklingham #Suffolk. #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, in the margin of a sandy field margin at Icklingham #Suffolk. #WildflowerHour
Dozens of plants of Small #Nightshade, #Solanum triflorum, flowering still in a scarified area on Icklingham Plains #Suffolk west of the field where it normally grows. Flowers tinged mauve. 💜 #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Dozens of plants of Small #Nightshade, #Solanum triflorum, flowering still in a scarified area on Icklingham Plains #Suffolk west of the field where it normally grows. Flowers tinged mauve. 💜 #WildflowerHour
For #JacobinDay of the Pomegranate here's on in #Cambridge Botanic Garden in August.
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
For #JacobinDay of the Pomegranate here's on in #Cambridge Botanic Garden in August.
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
Autumn colours on a Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis) which isn’t a wild service tree as it’s growing in my garden. 😉
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Autumn colours on a Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis) which isn’t a wild service tree as it’s growing in my garden. 😉
When I see your churchyard photos I peer at the grave stones looking for gable top slabs as in this photo of Skepper (coauthor of Flora of Suffolk with Henslow) & pharmacist boss Dunn. Common in Suffolk. Not sure about Norfolk. One at Bedingham? Henslow has one too!
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
When I see your churchyard photos I peer at the grave stones looking for gable top slabs as in this photo of Skepper (coauthor of Flora of Suffolk with Henslow) & pharmacist boss Dunn. Common in Suffolk. Not sure about Norfolk. One at Bedingham? Henslow has one too!
A small sapling with #Mildew on its leaves in Shaker's Lane #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk. As the #tree is Field Maple, Acer campestre, my guess is Maple Mildew, Sawadaea bicornis.
#Fungi
#Fungi
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A small sapling with #Mildew on its leaves in Shaker's Lane #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk. As the #tree is Field Maple, Acer campestre, my guess is Maple Mildew, Sawadaea bicornis.
#Fungi
#Fungi
Nursery Web #Spider, Pisaura mirabilis, on a nettle leaf at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes #Suffolk
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nursery Web #Spider, Pisaura mirabilis, on a nettle leaf at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes #Suffolk
Reflecting gull becomes defecting gull in failing light on an already dull day today. RSPB Lakenheath #Suffolk. #SuffolkBirds
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reflecting gull becomes defecting gull in failing light on an already dull day today. RSPB Lakenheath #Suffolk. #SuffolkBirds
The reason I associate Pied Wagtails with bus stops and car parks maybe because I rarely wait for busses next to Suffolk fen pools! #SufffolkBirds
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The reason I associate Pied Wagtails with bus stops and car parks maybe because I rarely wait for busses next to Suffolk fen pools! #SufffolkBirds