Saturday 29 November 2014

A misty walk on The Roaches Estate today.


Waxcap fungi with Hen Cloud in the background.


Cowberry berries on Cowberry growing amongst Crowberry.

A waxcap fungi.

Fungi growing in grassland between Hen Cloud and the Roaches. 

Red Grouse droppings. The slimy brown droppings are caecal droppings from the grouse's caecum in which the typically indigestable and unnourishing food (e.g. heather shoots) that make up a ren grouse's winter diet is metabolised by gut microbes into useful molecules such as protein. The fibrous, cylindrical droppings are from the intestine - they are capped with white urine. 

Larvae of Fox Moth - a heathland moth species whose larvae feed on bramble, heather, bilberry plus others. 

The Dane at the boundary of The Roaches Estate.




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