Two panoramas from our trip to Millichope a couple of weeks ago, at the start of the very cold spell of weather which has just relented. Temperature was about 2 Celsius maximum but the sun was glorious. Here, Brown Clee HIll fors the backdrop as we return to our cars at the end of the day.
Millichope Park, Shropshire.
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Two panoramas from our trip to Millichope a couple of weeks ago, at the start of the very cold spell of weather which has just relented. Temperature was about 2 Celsius maximum but the sun was glorious. Sunshine catches one of the many magnificent old Oaks, and frost remains on the ground where the sun has not reached.
Millichope Park, Shropshire.
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Millichope Park, Shropshire.
Tags: Coleoptera, Coccinellidae
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This chap appeared on someone's sandwich box as we had lunch!
Millichope Park, Shropshire.
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Christmas isn't Christmas without slime moulds. Well, maybe that isn't true, but here are some anyway. Odd things they are too. In the Kingdom Protista, they are more animal than plant or fungus. The plasmodium stage comprises one enormous cell, with multiple nuclei. it is mobile, hunting 'prey' items such as lichens. Some can move up to a metre a day. When fed & mature, the fruiting stage occurs. The experts in our group (very much not me!) believe that the first & second photos in this sequence are of the same organism in different stages. The third (balls on stalks) is a different organism.
Millichope Park, Shropshire.
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