Sarah Mnstr
@sarahmnstr.bsky.social
A welcome correction from @regularslimeguy.bsky.social - these are actually tiny mushrooms!
Every year these tiny myxomycetes (slime moulds) pop up on fallen leaves in our garden, have been trying to get a decent photo for a few years now. This one's a start! Second photo is actual size!
December 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A welcome correction from @regularslimeguy.bsky.social - these are actually tiny mushrooms!
Every year these tiny myxomycetes (slime moulds) pop up on fallen leaves in our garden, have been trying to get a decent photo for a few years now. This one's a start! Second photo is actual size!
December 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Every year these tiny myxomycetes (slime moulds) pop up on fallen leaves in our garden, have been trying to get a decent photo for a few years now. This one's a start! Second photo is actual size!
The incredible Barbrook II visited in November, a stone circle partly enclosed by a drystone wall. This area is well worth a visit, with 3 stone circles and a cairn field in the near vicinity.
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The incredible Barbrook II visited in November, a stone circle partly enclosed by a drystone wall. This area is well worth a visit, with 3 stone circles and a cairn field in the near vicinity.
An army of Candlesnuff Fungus looking Mordor-esque, at Risley Moss NR.
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
An army of Candlesnuff Fungus looking Mordor-esque, at Risley Moss NR.
An excellent start to my week off, stone circle bothering in the Peak District this morning and out for a Persian meal tonight.
Swipe to see some spectacular poo-shrooms.
Swipe to see some spectacular poo-shrooms.
November 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
An excellent start to my week off, stone circle bothering in the Peak District this morning and out for a Persian meal tonight.
Swipe to see some spectacular poo-shrooms.
Swipe to see some spectacular poo-shrooms.
There's one species of mushroom I've wanted to see for years but never managed to, and that's the Death Cap (Amanita phalloides). So, I was chuffed to bits to discover some while on a nature walk with Fungal Punk Dave (go on one of his walks everyone, you won't regret it)!
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
There's one species of mushroom I've wanted to see for years but never managed to, and that's the Death Cap (Amanita phalloides). So, I was chuffed to bits to discover some while on a nature walk with Fungal Punk Dave (go on one of his walks everyone, you won't regret it)!
Harden Moor Stone Circle (ring cairn), November 2025. Small but perfectly formed, and well worth a visit.
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Harden Moor Stone Circle (ring cairn), November 2025. Small but perfectly formed, and well worth a visit.
Harden Moor Stone Circle, a ring cairn at the top of Harden Moor in Yorkshire. Went up here to try and get some drone shots, luckily the weather was kind enough to cooperate for an hour after constant rain (which was NOT in the weather forecast) all morning.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Harden Moor Stone Circle, a ring cairn at the top of Harden Moor in Yorkshire. Went up here to try and get some drone shots, luckily the weather was kind enough to cooperate for an hour after constant rain (which was NOT in the weather forecast) all morning.
More of those incredible fluorescent Sulphur Tufts 🍄
October 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
More of those incredible fluorescent Sulphur Tufts 🍄
Sulphur Tuft + UV Torch = fluorescence 🔦
October 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Sulphur Tuft + UV Torch = fluorescence 🔦
July 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Earlier this summer we found loads of caterpillars on our apple tree. Ever since we've been patiently waiting and it's finally happened - our babies have all grown up! 🤣 Into these beautiful Apple Ermine moths. #moths #teammoth #gardeningforwildlife
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Earlier this summer we found loads of caterpillars on our apple tree. Ever since we've been patiently waiting and it's finally happened - our babies have all grown up! 🤣 Into these beautiful Apple Ermine moths. #moths #teammoth #gardeningforwildlife
This young man was a complete surprise! He's an Orange Vented Mason bee - these can take 2 years to develop from egg to bee. This guy though had an extra long lie in - he hatched out a couple of weeks ago from one of my 2022 cocoons (I keep them an extra year - just in case)! #bees
May 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This young man was a complete surprise! He's an Orange Vented Mason bee - these can take 2 years to develop from egg to bee. This guy though had an extra long lie in - he hatched out a couple of weeks ago from one of my 2022 cocoons (I keep them an extra year - just in case)! #bees
A lovely walk up to Walshaw Dean today via the Pennine Way. Saw my first ever Lapwings on the way up, the end destination being the drowned stone circle / ring cairn, currently just about visible under Walshaw Dean middle reservoir due to the current dry spring.
May 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A lovely walk up to Walshaw Dean today via the Pennine Way. Saw my first ever Lapwings on the way up, the end destination being the drowned stone circle / ring cairn, currently just about visible under Walshaw Dean middle reservoir due to the current dry spring.
That time of year where we get to see sunrise in the woods
March 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
That time of year where we get to see sunrise in the woods
It's uncharacteristically warm and sunny here at the moment and the robin is taking full advantage!
March 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It's uncharacteristically warm and sunny here at the moment and the robin is taking full advantage!
It was the world's first industrial estate - now it feels like an afterthought manchestermill.co.uk/trafford-par...
Trafford Park is a limbo of warehouses, sheds and roundabouts. What could it be instead?
It was the world's first industrial estate - now it feels like an afterthought
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March 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
It was the world's first industrial estate - now it feels like an afterthought manchestermill.co.uk/trafford-par...
First Queen bumblebees of the year spotted this week! The first two in highly unlikely places - while in traffic on the M60 motorway, in Trafford Park (a highly industrial area) and finally yesterday at home! 🤣
March 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
First Queen bumblebees of the year spotted this week! The first two in highly unlikely places - while in traffic on the M60 motorway, in Trafford Park (a highly industrial area) and finally yesterday at home! 🤣
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First it was the #naturewriting and #gardening communities who moved to BlueSky making this place great, now loads of book lovers have turned up from #booktok using #booksky - basically making this place the best social network. Nature, gardening, books - what’s not to love?! 💞
January 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
First it was the #naturewriting and #gardening communities who moved to BlueSky making this place great, now loads of book lovers have turned up from #booktok using #booksky - basically making this place the best social network. Nature, gardening, books - what’s not to love?! 💞
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Little globular springtail doodle in colored pencil and ink. Inspired by @the_forest_tin on IG, one of my fav macro photographers. 💚
#SciArt 🎨🕷️🐡🐞🌱
#SciArt 🎨🕷️🐡🐞🌱
January 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Little globular springtail doodle in colored pencil and ink. Inspired by @the_forest_tin on IG, one of my fav macro photographers. 💚
#SciArt 🎨🕷️🐡🐞🌱
#SciArt 🎨🕷️🐡🐞🌱
There's been radio silence on here for a sad reason - we had to say goodbye to our beautiful Halloween-born eldercat Zero a few days ago.
He was 18, but seemed much younger - vets had a habit of asking if I was sure of his age in his later years - until last Summer when we lost his brother...
He was 18, but seemed much younger - vets had a habit of asking if I was sure of his age in his later years - until last Summer when we lost his brother...
January 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
There's been radio silence on here for a sad reason - we had to say goodbye to our beautiful Halloween-born eldercat Zero a few days ago.
He was 18, but seemed much younger - vets had a habit of asking if I was sure of his age in his later years - until last Summer when we lost his brother...
He was 18, but seemed much younger - vets had a habit of asking if I was sure of his age in his later years - until last Summer when we lost his brother...