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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · 6d

porcelain fungus 🤍

grows on beech deadwood

edible (once you wash off the slime that makes it so glossy and cute)

📍Ravelston woods, Edinburgh

Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · 14d

good camera vs my phone (beaver)
good camera vs my phone (badger)

2025 been good so far seeing my first 🦫 and 🦡 in the flesh!!

However I do not possess the good camera😭 Credits go to Katie and Jackie ©️📸

📍Tayside and Scottish Borders, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · 21d

No idea what mushroom this is

But I love it ✨🌚

📍Stanley, Perthshire

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Sep 19

Tayside, yes!

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Sep 19

Orange Bolete (Leccinum aurantiacum)

Often found under oaks but also under aspen, poplar, birch or beech trees.

EDIBLE

(but obvs don't eat if you haven't done all the checks)

Lots of other fun weird things in this park (a maze, trains, trolls etc)

📍Oakfield Park, Donegal (IRELAND🇮🇪!)

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Aug 25

Bistort
Goat's beard / Yellow salsify
Broom (peapod)
Corn spurrey

📍Tain, Scotland

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Aug 8

Red admiral (open vs closed) ❤️🫐
Devil's-bit scabious (pink vs purple)🩷🍇

📍 Thurso, Scotland

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jul 29

White melilot
Common toadflax
Ox-eye daisy
Mugwort

📍the canal that runs through Maryhill, Glasgow

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jul 23

Harebell 🫟
Quaking grass 🩷
Flowering sundew❗
Marsh lousewort 🌿

📍Ben Lawers, middle of Scotland

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Scottish Wild Beaver Group @scotsbeavers.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨Last chance to book tickets!✨

🦫Beaver Trust production "Balancing the Scales"
📽️ THIS FRIDAY 25 July, 7.00 pm (start 7.30pm)
📍Soutar Theatre, York Place, Perth

STAY after for a discussion panel of experts Q&A.

Admission is FREE
(donations welcome)

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 24

In Scotland you get three newt species:

smooth
palmate
and great crested

these here are likely palmate

smooth and palmate can be easily confused due to similar size and markings

but male palmates have blackened, webbed hind feet during breeding season!

📍Dingwall, Highlands

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 16

v i s i t o r s 🌿

How many creatures can you name? 👀

📍Fife, Scotland

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Scottish Wild Beaver Group @scotsbeavers.bsky.social · Jun 9

EXCITING NEWS! 🦫

WHERE:
The Soutar Theatre (AK Bell Library), York Place, Perth ✨

WHEN:
Friday 25 July, 7.00 pm✨

WHAT:
A screening of Beaver Trust's film production "Balancing the Scales" will be shown! 🦫✨

Admission is FREE:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...

Doors open 7.00 pm

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 7

Machair (prt 2)

Was also dive-bombed by some aggy (but beautiful) lapwings (if you've not heard their calls before, give it a search)

Bird's-foot trefoil
Sea thrift
Scurvy grass

📍Vatersay, Outer Hebrides

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 7

Machair is a coastal habitat found on the Atlantic or west-facing shores of Scotland, like in the Outer Hebrides.

It is a type of grassland made up mostly of shell fragments, giving it an incredible beauty.

📍Vatersay, Outer Hebrides

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 7

Nettle rust fungus 🟡 (𝘗𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢)

Thought this was a mad slug

but it's *just* a fungal disease which can severely distort stinging nettles

Apparently it doesn't harm the plant?!

📍Glasgow, Scotland

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 6

Good day to be in the field! (prt.2)

Common starwort (lesser stitchwort)
Dame's rocket
Crosswort
Granny's bonnet

📍Lothians, Scotland

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 6

Good day to be in the field!

Common fumitory
Shining cranesbill
Ground ivy

📍Lothians, Scotland

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 5

BLUE-RAYED LIMPETS

taken with a micro lens on a smartphone 💙

At some cool rockpools in the clearest water I've ever seen in Scotland

the smaller they are the brighter the blue!

📍Berneray, Outer Hebrides

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Jun 5

🫟
Early purple orchid
Alpine squill
Milkwort
Heath spotted orchid

📍Barra, Outer Hebrides

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Apr 24

𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘺𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘯 (False Puffball)

SLIME MOULD

📍Inverness, Scotland

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Apr 19

Red elderberry
Golden saxifrage
Wavy bittercress
Periwinkle

📍West Fife, Scotland

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Apr 19

Pyramidal bugle
Turkeytail
Cuckoo flower
𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘢 spp. (algae)

📍Valleyfield, West Fife

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Apr 8

The great Scottish countryside ☀️

Did you know Dunnet Head is the most northerly point of the UK (not John o' Groats!) with cool birds and views of Orkney.

Did a bit of a road trip round Caithness / Sutherland before heading down.

Scotland on a sunny day is just 😘

📍Dunnet Head (and the journey)

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Scottish Ecologist @scottishecologist.bsky.social · Apr 5

Spiral tube worms - a marine polychaete worm (𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘴 spp.) found on seaweed! Teeny wee shells

And some bryozoans creeping in too

📍Golspie beach, Scotland

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