Some Glen Affric nature pics
Here are some additional photos from the work week in the Glen Affric nature reserve, that concentrate a bit more on what nature was up to while we were there…
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- A fox moth caterpillar
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- I’m reasonably confident that this is a pine weevil
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- This is what the Scottish highlands would have looked like a few hundred million years ago. Apart from the dam of course
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- This old grey willow has been here for almost that long, giving advice to anyone who’ll listen
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- The trunk of an Aspen (Populus Tremula). Note the diamond shaped markings/lenticels
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- After years of over-grazing and inappropriate plantations the reserve is bursting back into life
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- I was very lucky to spend a few minutes talking with this little vole
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- This was taken while I’d stopped for lunch on my day off walk. Parus cristatus, fantastic!
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- Some dwarf birch (betula nana) in the TFL nursery
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- Also lurking in the TFL nursery, a Gyromitra of some sort. Given its habitat I’d go for Gyromitra infula, Pouched False Morel.
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- This appears to be egg shell slime mold (Leocarpus fragilis)
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- Oops, I didn’t mean to disturb these guys as I was pulling out a spruce, so I covered them back up again and hoped they’d not be too annoyed with me
Life since the office 
‘Under the shroom’, looks like it should be an album cover, or an advertisement for a shop in Glasto. Love the title and the pic.
2 November, 2010 at 10:52 pm