Sarah Lambert
@sarahlambert7.bsky.social
Freelance botanist / plant ecologist / naturalist - supporting nature recovery in Cambs and Lincs. Keen photographer sharing stories and images from the natural world. BSBI recorder for South Lincolnshire and leader for Wildlife Travel.
Today and tomorrow in Helpston (occupy.effort.summit)- a celebration of all things autumnal - beautiful photography, porcelain fungi, ecoprints plus hot drinks and delicious home-made cakes. And a chance to find out about @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social 2026 holidays.
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Today and tomorrow in Helpston (occupy.effort.summit)- a celebration of all things autumnal - beautiful photography, porcelain fungi, ecoprints plus hot drinks and delicious home-made cakes. And a chance to find out about @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social 2026 holidays.
For #thicktrunktuesday one of my favourite Beech trees in all its autumn glory, just before heavy rain brought down its leaves. At @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay Forest.
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
For #thicktrunktuesday one of my favourite Beech trees in all its autumn glory, just before heavy rain brought down its leaves. At @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay Forest.
Help us Celebrate Autumn! in Helpston (nr Peterborough) next weekend (details below). Autumn photos, a fungi slideshow, eco-print art, porcelain work, and creative ways of mapping our local landscape. Plus a cosy atmosphere, hot drinks and home-made cakes by donation!
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Help us Celebrate Autumn! in Helpston (nr Peterborough) next weekend (details below). Autumn photos, a fungi slideshow, eco-print art, porcelain work, and creative ways of mapping our local landscape. Plus a cosy atmosphere, hot drinks and home-made cakes by donation!
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social
Nothing better at this time of year than close-examination of damp, well-rotted wood for slime-moulds. Four species found in the last week - two at the bottom of our garden (Stemonitis sp. and Trichia sp.) and two in local woods (Arcyria sp, and Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa) - all immature...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Nothing better at this time of year than close-examination of damp, well-rotted wood for slime-moulds. Four species found in the last week - two at the bottom of our garden (Stemonitis sp. and Trichia sp.) and two in local woods (Arcyria sp, and Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa) - all immature...
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A visit to Burghley Park, where woodchip laid down under veteran oaks is currently supporting an impressive range of fungi, including several troops of Redlead Roundhead, the largest and brightest Blue Roundhead I've ever seen, many Stubble Rosegill and a single clump of Maroon Brittlestem
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November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A visit to Burghley Park, where woodchip laid down under veteran oaks is currently supporting an impressive range of fungi, including several troops of Redlead Roundhead, the largest and brightest Blue Roundhead I've ever seen, many Stubble Rosegill and a single clump of Maroon Brittlestem
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I've waited a lifetime to find Striated Bird's Nest fungus, and this week I've seen it twice! Also a magnificent colony of Coral Slime-mould, a troop of another slime-mould Physarum sp. with a lime-encrusted peridium and a heap of Witch's Butter. At @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay NR
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I've waited a lifetime to find Striated Bird's Nest fungus, and this week I've seen it twice! Also a magnificent colony of Coral Slime-mould, a troop of another slime-mould Physarum sp. with a lime-encrusted peridium and a heap of Witch's Butter. At @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay NR
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November continues to be abnormally mild with many wildflowers round Peterborough still in bloom, but I was surprised to see so much Yellow-wort, Common Centaury and Blue Fleabane flowering again at Swaddywell, having given up entirely in the summer drought. Names in ALT.
#wildflowerhour #winter10
#wildflowerhour #winter10
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
November continues to be abnormally mild with many wildflowers round Peterborough still in bloom, but I was surprised to see so much Yellow-wort, Common Centaury and Blue Fleabane flowering again at Swaddywell, having given up entirely in the summer drought. Names in ALT.
#wildflowerhour #winter10
#wildflowerhour #winter10
Another day, another special woodland where (thanks to some inside information) I finally found Fluted Bird's Nest fungi - so strange but so perfect. Plus plenty Of Wrinkled Peach, including this one sheltering some youngsters and a splendid display of Toothed Crust (I think!)
#fungifriday 📷🍄
#fungifriday 📷🍄
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another day, another special woodland where (thanks to some inside information) I finally found Fluted Bird's Nest fungi - so strange but so perfect. Plus plenty Of Wrinkled Peach, including this one sheltering some youngsters and a splendid display of Toothed Crust (I think!)
#fungifriday 📷🍄
#fungifriday 📷🍄
A midweek meander through Bedford Purlieus NNR under fiery Beech foliage - fungus numbers declining now but wonderful to find the tiniest Porcelain Mushroom on a fallen beech bough (rare round Peterborough) and to be shown my first Orange Oak Bolete by a couple I met in the wood
#fungusfriday 📷🍄
#fungusfriday 📷🍄
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A midweek meander through Bedford Purlieus NNR under fiery Beech foliage - fungus numbers declining now but wonderful to find the tiniest Porcelain Mushroom on a fallen beech bough (rare round Peterborough) and to be shown my first Orange Oak Bolete by a couple I met in the wood
#fungusfriday 📷🍄
#fungusfriday 📷🍄
Plenty of Harebells still flowering in the limestone grassland of Castor Hanglands North Heath (though all the more acid-loving species that formerly grew there have long gone). A last taste of summer perhaps...
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Plenty of Harebells still flowering in the limestone grassland of Castor Hanglands North Heath (though all the more acid-loving species that formerly grew there have long gone). A last taste of summer perhaps...
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A trio of yellow blooms at Castor Hanglands NNR today, looking very summery in the surprisingly warm November sunshine.
Common Rock-rose, Meadow Buttercup and Great Mullein all making up for lost time after a summer of sheep grazing.
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Common Rock-rose, Meadow Buttercup and Great Mullein all making up for lost time after a summer of sheep grazing.
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A trio of yellow blooms at Castor Hanglands NNR today, looking very summery in the surprisingly warm November sunshine.
Common Rock-rose, Meadow Buttercup and Great Mullein all making up for lost time after a summer of sheep grazing.
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Common Rock-rose, Meadow Buttercup and Great Mullein all making up for lost time after a summer of sheep grazing.
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A final flourish of blue brightening a gloomy November afternoon, from a late-flowering Viper's-bugloss plant growing in a former limestone quarry at Old Sulehay NR
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildlifebcn.org
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildlifebcn.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A final flourish of blue brightening a gloomy November afternoon, from a late-flowering Viper's-bugloss plant growing in a former limestone quarry at Old Sulehay NR
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildlifebcn.org
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildlifebcn.org
A few of the more exciting finds from a recce of Collyweston Great Wood NNR in preparation for a fungus walk I'm co-leading tomorrow. Exciting to find lots of Dog's Stinkhorn and Collared Earth-star while Gold-flecked Woodwax was new to me, growing close to several Solitary Amanita
#fungifriday
#fungifriday
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A few of the more exciting finds from a recce of Collyweston Great Wood NNR in preparation for a fungus walk I'm co-leading tomorrow. Exciting to find lots of Dog's Stinkhorn and Collared Earth-star while Gold-flecked Woodwax was new to me, growing close to several Solitary Amanita
#fungifriday
#fungifriday
A mild but damp night brought a presumably migrant Dark Swordgrass and the first December Moth of the year, definitely a bit ahead of itself! Plus the now standard fare of Merveille du Jour and White Point...
#mothsmatter #teammoth
#mothsmatter #teammoth
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A mild but damp night brought a presumably migrant Dark Swordgrass and the first December Moth of the year, definitely a bit ahead of itself! Plus the now standard fare of Merveille du Jour and White Point...
#mothsmatter #teammoth
#mothsmatter #teammoth
A suitably seasonal Samhain encounter with this stunning Noble False Widow, lurking near our compost bins. Spiders and their webs have been viewed as powerful symbols of fate, creativity, and the interconnectedness of life, death, and the spiritual world.
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A suitably seasonal Samhain encounter with this stunning Noble False Widow, lurking near our compost bins. Spiders and their webs have been viewed as powerful symbols of fate, creativity, and the interconnectedness of life, death, and the spiritual world.
Great morning leading a 'Fentastic Fungi' walk at Holme Fen NNR with a group of young conservationists. Over 40 species named and lots of discussion on how to identify fungi and their importance in ecosystems. Organised as part of the Peatland Progress project
@greatfen.org.uk #fungifriends
@greatfen.org.uk #fungifriends
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Great morning leading a 'Fentastic Fungi' walk at Holme Fen NNR with a group of young conservationists. Over 40 species named and lots of discussion on how to identify fungi and their importance in ecosystems. Organised as part of the Peatland Progress project
@greatfen.org.uk #fungifriends
@greatfen.org.uk #fungifriends
Aargh -a busy weekend and somehow I missed out on #WildFungiHour
So for #MushroomMonday an assemblage of grassland fungi from Old Sulehay NR, a former limestone quarry, cared for by @wildlifebcn.org using wonderful Highland Cattle and Mouflon to maintain a short open sward.
Names in ALT.
So for #MushroomMonday an assemblage of grassland fungi from Old Sulehay NR, a former limestone quarry, cared for by @wildlifebcn.org using wonderful Highland Cattle and Mouflon to maintain a short open sward.
Names in ALT.
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Aargh -a busy weekend and somehow I missed out on #WildFungiHour
So for #MushroomMonday an assemblage of grassland fungi from Old Sulehay NR, a former limestone quarry, cared for by @wildlifebcn.org using wonderful Highland Cattle and Mouflon to maintain a short open sward.
Names in ALT.
So for #MushroomMonday an assemblage of grassland fungi from Old Sulehay NR, a former limestone quarry, cared for by @wildlifebcn.org using wonderful Highland Cattle and Mouflon to maintain a short open sward.
Names in ALT.
Looking up into the crown of a much-loved ancient Small-leaved Lime coppice stool in Old Sulehay Forest on a gloomy grey day, the remaining leaves gradually changing from green to clear-yellow.
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Looking up into the crown of a much-loved ancient Small-leaved Lime coppice stool in Old Sulehay Forest on a gloomy grey day, the remaining leaves gradually changing from green to clear-yellow.
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A very slow meander round Old Sulehay NR, focusing on fungi, but a late-flowering Sweet Violet captured my attention, together with more seasonal fruits of Blackthorn and Old-man's-beard, as well as golden leaves of Wild Service.
Very late for #wildflowerhour
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Very late for #wildflowerhour
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A very slow meander round Old Sulehay NR, focusing on fungi, but a late-flowering Sweet Violet captured my attention, together with more seasonal fruits of Blackthorn and Old-man's-beard, as well as golden leaves of Wild Service.
Very late for #wildflowerhour
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Very late for #wildflowerhour
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Hedgerow fruit, field and forest fungi, leaves aflame in red and gold – autumn whispers its magic.
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the season at our exhibition on 22–23 November. We’d love you to join us.
#photography #art #johnclarecountryside
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the season at our exhibition on 22–23 November. We’d love you to join us.
#photography #art #johnclarecountryside
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hedgerow fruit, field and forest fungi, leaves aflame in red and gold – autumn whispers its magic.
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the season at our exhibition on 22–23 November. We’d love you to join us.
#photography #art #johnclarecountryside
@kathrynparsons.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the season at our exhibition on 22–23 November. We’d love you to join us.
#photography #art #johnclarecountryside
Having a very large Monterey Cypress in our neighbour's garden, it's perhaps surprising that we haven't previously recorded a Cypress Carpet in the Peterborough trap, although there are still few records for VC32. Also good to see a return of The Satellite, last seen in 2014!
#mothsmatter #teammoth
#mothsmatter #teammoth
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Having a very large Monterey Cypress in our neighbour's garden, it's perhaps surprising that we haven't previously recorded a Cypress Carpet in the Peterborough trap, although there are still few records for VC32. Also good to see a return of The Satellite, last seen in 2014!
#mothsmatter #teammoth
#mothsmatter #teammoth
Another excellent field meeting with the Huntingdonshire Flora Group at Wakerley Woods - four of my favourite finds were a tiny Earthy Powdercap, richly-coloured Larch Boletes, a perfect specimen of Plums-and-Custard on a pine stump and masses of Hare's-ear.
#mushroommonday 📷🍄
#mushroommonday 📷🍄
October 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Another excellent field meeting with the Huntingdonshire Flora Group at Wakerley Woods - four of my favourite finds were a tiny Earthy Powdercap, richly-coloured Larch Boletes, a perfect specimen of Plums-and-Custard on a pine stump and masses of Hare's-ear.
#mushroommonday 📷🍄
#mushroommonday 📷🍄
For #mushroommonday two slightly spooky-looking fungi found on local sites last week - the rather ghostly pale-lilac of a young Pearly Webcap and Blushing Rosette exuding droplets of clear red liquid.
🍄📷 #fungifriends
🍄📷 #fungifriends
October 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
For #mushroommonday two slightly spooky-looking fungi found on local sites last week - the rather ghostly pale-lilac of a young Pearly Webcap and Blushing Rosette exuding droplets of clear red liquid.
🍄📷 #fungifriends
🍄📷 #fungifriends
A subtle palette of flowers from arable and a grass verge in Helpston, including Sharp-leaved Fluellen (always good to see), Creeping Thistle, Autumn Hawkbit, Sun Spurge, Perennial Sow-thistle, Field Madder, White Dead-nettle, Groundsel and Hogweed.
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A subtle palette of flowers from arable and a grass verge in Helpston, including Sharp-leaved Fluellen (always good to see), Creeping Thistle, Autumn Hawkbit, Sun Spurge, Perennial Sow-thistle, Field Madder, White Dead-nettle, Groundsel and Hogweed.
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A summery array of flowers by a footpath - last year there was a mad range of species from imported topsoil. Now it's settling back into weedy rank grassland, with a smattering of exotics including Argentinian Vervain and Garden Cat-mint...
Names in ALT
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Names in ALT
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A summery array of flowers by a footpath - last year there was a mad range of species from imported topsoil. Now it's settling back into weedy rank grassland, with a smattering of exotics including Argentinian Vervain and Garden Cat-mint...
Names in ALT
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Names in ALT
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social