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Sarah Lambert
@sarahlambert7.bsky.social
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Freelance botanist / plant ecologist / naturalist - supporting nature recovery in Cambs and Lincs. Keen photographer sharing stories and images from the natural world. BSBI recorder for South Lincolnshire and leader for Wildlife Travel.
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 1h
Yes, a great show this year and more to come!
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 12h
Midweek grassland #fungi treat at @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay NR - Limestone Waxcap, Mousepee Pinkgill, Persistent Waxcap and Blackening Waxcap. So many in Stonepit Close (a former limestone quarry) this year, especially Persistent Waxcap...

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Three red Limestone Waxcaps snuggled on a mossy bed The charismatic Mousepee Pinkgill (with a Persistent Waxcap in the background) Persistent Waxcap Young Blackening Waxcap emerging from a carpet of Bendy Ditrichum Flexitrichum flexicaule
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 1d
Third time lucky! Finally caught up with the stunning pair of Glossy Ibis at Deeping Lakes NR today. Watched the closer one for ages, probing stranded algae for pond snails, preening and generally living its good life...just wonderful!

🪶 #bird #ukwildlife #photography @lincswildlife.bsky.social
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 3d
How exciting - I've never seen this! There are 1985 records from a couple of hectads near The Wash in VC53 but very unlikely to still be there as so much upper marsh is now dominated by Elytrigia atherica...
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 3d
Another odd hybrid hawthorn found while out with my botanical trainees - thinking this one seems good for Crataegus x macrocarpa (C. laevigata x C.rhipidophylla) - sometimes known as Large-fruited or Crowned Hawthorn. But I'm open to other suggestions!

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Red haws with semi-erect sepals, probably of Crataegus x macrocarpa, the hybrid between C. laevigata and C. rhipidophylla Red haws with semi-erect sepals, probably of Crataegus x macrocarpa, the hybrid between C. laevigata and C. rhipidophylla
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 3d
Juxtaposition of summer and autumn at Bedford Purlieus NNR this week - Common Eyebright still flowering merrily, while a nearby woodland ride was smothered with fallen fruit of Sweet Chestnut, plump and glossy after the hot summer.

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Common Eyebright Sweet Chestnut in its spiky seed case
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 3d
A few other lovely species seen flowering at Whisby Nature Park in acid grassland and brownfield habitats - Devil's-bit Scabious, Hare's-foot Clover, Blue Fleabane and Dark Mullein.

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Purple flower of Devil's-bit Scabious against a yellow background Dew covered flower heads of Hare's-foot Clover Blue Fleabane flowers Dark Mullein with a spike of yellow flowers with contrasting fluffy purple anther filaments
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 3d
A great morning recording at Whisby Nature Park on Monday, where I was delighted to be able to introduce my friend to the diminutive but characterful Smooth Cat's-ear, flowering for the second time this year on acid sandhills - a particular favourite of mine!
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Smooth Cat's-ear with characteristic red-margined phyllaries
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 4d
Hope you have a great time and find lots of very special birds…
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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 4d
Beautiful results created at our botanical ecoprinting workshop! 👏👏👏

Lead by @sarahlambert7.bsky.social & me, with #LangdykeCountrysideTrust
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 6d
Fly Agaric aplenty at Castor Hanglands this week, drifts of them in birch woodland along with more Red-cracking Bolete than I've ever seen, and a single young Bay Bolete with a velvety cap and swollen, fibril-covered stipe

#fungusfriday #fungifriends
Red-cracking Bolete (no blue at base of stem) Bay Bolete
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 6d
Some recent beauties from Bedford Purlieus NNR for #fungusfriday - Magpie Inkcap and a rather splendid Cortinarius from Beech woodland over limestone, and Wood Hedgehog and Oak Mazegill from an area of Pedunculate Oak and Small-leaved Lime coppice.

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Magpie Inkcap Cortinarius sp. possibly majusculus (red with KOH and yellow bulb flesh)
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 7d
The Fenland Flora - Survival against the odds webinar

17 November 1-2pm

Join renowned botanist Owen Mountford, co-author of the soon to be published Fenland Flora, to find out about the fascinating history and present status of wild plants in Fenland.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fenlan...
The Fenland Flora: Survival against the odds
Expert field botanist Owen Mountford will provide an overview of the Fenland Flora project, surveying the entire Fenland since about 2005
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 10d
Free this Thursday? Come and spend a lovely autumn day stretching your writing muscles at Paxton Pits in Cambridgeshire. Everyone welcome!
#naturewriting #booksky

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A sign for intro to nature writing workshop with the Beds, Cambs and Northamps Wildlife Trust.
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 10d
An #autumn10 of wild, naturalised and self-seeded plants in our wildlife garden. Most have been with us for years, but Bidens ferulifolia and Rudbeckia fulgida popped up for the first time this year...

Names in ALT

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Clockwise from top left: Cat's-ear Hypochaeris radicata, Sowbread Cyclamen hederifolium, Wood Forget-me-not Myosotis sylvestris, Common Calamint Clinopodium adscendens, Bidens ferulifolia, Confused Michaelmas Daisy Symphyotrichum novi-belgii, Knotted Crane's-bill Geranium nodosum, Purple Toadflax Linaria purpurea (pink form) and Meadow Crane's-bill Geranium purpureum Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia fulgida
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 10d
Shades of purple seen in flower this week near Peterborough - Bush Vetch at Rice Wood; Devil's-bit Scabious at Castor Hanglands NNR and Heather at Holme Fen NNR, where it grows on acid peat from a former raised bog.

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Purple pea flowers of Bush Vetch Purple flowers of Devil's-bit Scabious, the only plant I could find flowering at Castor Hanglands, which once used to have a glorious show of this characteristic late-summer and autumn species Heather still flowering well at Holme Fen NNR
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 11d
A small haul in the Peterborough trap last night, highlights being Rush Veneer, Black Rustic, White Point (so many this year!) and this beautiful Orange Sallow which is our first record since 2013, having recorded it annually from 2009 to 2013.

#teammoth #mothsmatter
Orange Sallow moth sitting on a weathered wooden table
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 11d
We had a lovely one last year in the garden trap but nothing yet this year! Hope one arrives at your trap eventually 🙂
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 11d
Still waiting!
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 13d
It's that time of year when I return to the woodlands, fossicking for fungi among fallen leaves and gnarled stumps.

A few from a late afternoon trip to Southey Wood including my first Wrinkled Peach of the year, False Chanterelle, Felted Twiglet and a woodwart on Roble

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A tiny Wrinkled Peach mushroom Rhodotus palmatus, with a wrinkled pale-pink cap, growing on a fallen elm tree A pair of soft-ornage coloured False Chanterelle Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca growing on a pine stump Felted Twiglet Tubaria conspersa, a small pale-brown mushroom, on a piece of rotting wood A tawny-orabge woodwart Hypoxylon sp. growing on a fallen branch of Roble Nothofagus obliqua, possibly Hypoxylon howeanum
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Prof Duncan Westbury @duncanwestbury.bsky.social · 15d
PLEASE READ! No more #BeeWashing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Why saving the honeybee could be bad news for other bees
In this week’s newsletter: a conservation success story has a sting in its tail as wild pollinators pay the price
www.theguardian.com
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 17d
There were lots of plants in a field in Bainton last July and it turned up again near Etton last October. It’s often associated with birdseed but can be a contaminant of oilseed and grain.
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 17d
It is 😊
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 17d
Always a surprise to see Blue Passionflower in a rural location. This one by may well be a relic from the garden of a now demolished station-master’s house. Milder winters have allowed this species to become established more widely in the UK in recent years.

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 17d
For #wildflowerhour a selection of wayside plants seen on country walks around the Peterborough area this week - Black Nightshade, Common Mallow, and, more surprisingly, Snapdragon and a host of pink and white Sowbread thriving under an old parish boundary hedge.

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