Breaking the rules but if you look closely, that’s just an old dead log - I picked it up from a walk years ago and it was as decayed as you can imagine - light as a feather. I thought it would be a nice home for bugs etc next to the pond, and yet over the last couple of years it’s sprouted into a tree again - well I think it’s a tree!
Nature finds a way etc.
Went to see The Prodigy just amazing.
Southern Highlands from the summit of Braid Hill in Edinburgh 
Not today, but this is the main topic of conversation today round here:
Not today either but happy with this shot which I spotted out of the hotel window in Amsterdam last weekend.
Not taken today but processed today. Catching up...
Looking at the sort of prey available, no wonder that sparrowhawk is looking really pissed off! 🤣
over the last couple of years it’s sprouted into a tree again - well I think it’s a tree!
Not quite sure what variety it is, but I think that might be an alder, or maybe a silver birch, or other species of birch - alder is part of the same family. It’s quite possible that there were seeds trapped in the log, and one’s germinated.
A word of warning, I have a silver birch in my garden that I basically just pulled out of a sloping clay area by a footpath, it’s tap root went sideways and I carried it home with as much root as there was tree, it was about 6’. Forty years on, it’s about 25’ tall…
@matt_outandabout - is that a cat shark in a rock pool? Beautiful creature, I love sharks and rays, that’s a great find. 👌🏻
@matt_outandabout - is that a cat shark in a rock pool? Beautiful creature, I love sharks and rays, that’s a great find. 👌🏻
Sadly dead on the beach at Otter Ferry.. 😞
Hawthorn
Dunno about baby robins, but this is the first baby sparrow I’ve had in my garden for years!
Confirmed.
A still froma video technically but can't find a way to share videos anymore.
@Elshalimo you might actually know this river if you have an NFM manual on your person.
