It’s always worth scanning the fields at this time of year. This nice flock of thirty golden plovers has been hanging around for a couple of weeks. #Fife #Fifewildlife #waders #winter #birdingScotland

Today’s work party on our Bankhead Moss reserve in #Fife cleared birch saplings from the central dome of the raised peak bog where they had been encroaching #Fifewildlife #conservation #peatbogs

Plenty of hawthorn berries on our Fleecefaulds Meadow reserve for the redwings and fieldfares this winter #berries #ScottishWildlifeTrust #winter @scottishbirding.bsky.social #Fifewildlife #Fife

Another amazing fungus, the aptly named ‘Yellow Brain’ from a local park in north #Fife #Fifewildlife #ScottishWildlife #fungi

A good crop of fungi here at a half-frozen Gaddon Loch #fungi #Fifewildlife #winter

This morning’s roe deer. Nice to look at but can cause a lot of damage to crops and young trees. Numbers have increased a lot in recent years with up to twenty often seen on my walk around here, usually in groups of three.

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Jelly Ear #fungus, abundant in #Fife at this time of year and most frequently found on dead elder branches. Reportedly edible but apparently very rubbery. I’m not tempted.

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Ivy flowers still attracting lots of insects in this part of Fife.

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Some fine #fungi in #Fife this #autumn. This, I think, is Coprinellus micaceous in early and late stages. Its common names include mica cap, glistening inky cap and shiny cap. #Fifewildlife

The sycamore tarspot #fungus showing up well against the yellow #autumn colour of the #sycamore leaf #Fifewildlife #trees