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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5h

Was a great day in the sunshine. Was up the Water of Leith. Looking at mostly insects and fungi, but saw a Dipper, Pink-footed Geese overhead and an adult Buzzard with a juvenile calling from trees!

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah looks like Fuligo septica, I prefer the common name Flowers of Tan (from the French) or Scrambled Egg Slime Mould. There’s another one called (common name) Dog Sick Slime Mould. No idea what the difference is, probably a microscope job!

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5h

Aw, sorry you didn’t see the Spoonbill but Marsh Sandpiper made up for it. Nice collection of sightings too.

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

Saw the Ring-necked Duck but not the Mandarin. Did you see the female Shoveler there, last year?

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂 Local twitching is ok!! There were 5 or 6 Spoonbills about 6 years ago at Buist’s Embankment near Tynningehame. Saw them there but not close.

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

Not been yet and out all day tomorrow with Edinburgh Nats (ENHS). Might go Sunday or through the week. Hopefully still there. Good luck, hope you see it.

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

Tiger's Eye, Coltricia perennis, uncommon and localised. Here at Loch an Eilein, #Rothiemurchus, Scots Pine woods #fungi @cairngormsnews.bsky.social

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 2d

I wondered if this tiny feather might be from Long-tailed Tit, but don't see it on Featherbase under Aegithalos caudatus. Seen yesterday at Bawsinch NR Any ideas? @birdinglothian.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 2d

Striated Earthstar, Geastrum striatum, past its best but nice to see. Also tiny Sessile Earthstar, Geastrum fimbriatum, I haven't seen its 'egg' before. #fungi @scotwildlife.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 3d

Managed to grab an iPhone pic of the (so-called) Harvest Supermoon between banks of cloud. At 7.25pm, we are too low to see it rising any earlier. Harvest time it may be but I don’t get the super bit! @metoffice.gov.uk

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 4d

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 4d

Two #SlimeMoulds at Loch Pityoulish on 20/09/2025. Flowers of Tan aka Scrambled Egg Slime Mould (Fuligo septica) on Scots Pine stump and False Puffball (Reticularia lycoperdon) on dead Birch @cairngormsnews.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5d

Quite a decent colony when I visited two years ago. I didn’t count plants though.

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 7d

Nice Pink/Ballerina Waxcap🩷

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 7d

They were all the way up the trunk, a lovely sight!

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 7d

Golden Scalycap, Pholiota aurivella, on dead Alder. Nethy Bridge, 24/09/2025 #Fungi #UKFungusDay @edinburghnats.bsky.social

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 7d

The Common Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, buried under Scaly Tooth Fungus (Sarcodon imbricatus) at Dell Wood, Nethy Bridge 24/09/2025 #Silphidae #CarrionBeetle #Fungi @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

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Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social · 7d

Back in June, we hosted a team from #GardenersWorld to share how we’ve been improving the grounds of the National Museums Collection Centre for biodiversity. 🎬 🐞🪰🌿🌼

Catch it here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#NMCCbiodiversity

Behind the scenes from our day of filming. Here I’m crouched down in one of the grassland areas looking at an orchid, with camera operator Gavin and producer Charlotte.

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 7d

Watched it last night. Great message being carried to Gardeners World watchers. Nice to see Dorothy in there too! Bravo🙏🏻

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 7d

4.00pm this afternoon, Amy building up to 60mph gusts just now. #Edinburgh.

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

😢Just seen news item, I didn't twig ...

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

Agreed. September was clearly the second peak

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

Post was from 9 Sept near the coast; was same in our city garden, for once the buddleja was actually behaving like a butterfly bush! But yes agreed, depends on time of year and species. We had a bumper year for recently arrived Holly Blues in 2024; not so much in 2025

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

I find this statement @savebutterflies.bsky.social difficult to understand. As far as I'm aware 2025 has been the best for #butterflies for some years: "Despite great weather this summer, the number of butterflies recoded in the Big Butterfly Count only reached average levels." #ukwildlife

Three species: Small Tortoiseshell, Painted Lady and Small White

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 12d

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information

Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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