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Joanie McNaughton

@joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social

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Glasgwegian emigrated east to Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) and stayed. Love all things in nature and natural history, travel, taking photos, coffee and cake.

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

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

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

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

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 2d

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

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 4d

Nice Pink/Ballerina Waxcap🩷

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 4d

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

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5d

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

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed. September was clearly the second peak

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5d

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

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 9d

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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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting, the books don’t say that about clonal patches. I did spot a few patches during the visit. The plant was itself an “other interesting thing”, I was there looking for toothed fungi. Successfully!

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

Stunning

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks David😊🙏

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

I wish I'd counted the plants. Last time I saw these was on 13/06/2006, also at Culbin Forest on long excursion with @edinburghnats.bsky.social. I didn't take a grid ref then (or this time sadly), just hoped to find them again.

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 8d

Culbin Forest 24/09/2025, is this Serrated Wintergreen (Orthilia secunda), gone over? Can this be confirmed? @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @forestresearchuk.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social

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Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 9d

Great, thanks for clarifying. Looks obvious against your photo, and with the description too.😊

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t see too many of them in the east, only know if one spot at Basmwsinch (SWT reserve).

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 10d

Although I might change my mind!

Joanie McNaughton @joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social · 10d

Nice Sessile Earthstar😊

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