A gathering of photos taken on our walk on 4th February 2026 during a drab and fitfully spitting day. Enjoy
4th February 2026
🔼 Seen in a garden, and irresistible, Green Hellebore 🔽 Hazel catkins. No wind. See, they’re hanging straight down!
4th February 2026
4th February 2026
Geese 🔼 Egyptian 🔽 Greylags
4th February 2026
4th February 2026
Waymakers crafted from the tracks of this former railway, placed at every mile 🔼 full frontal view 🔽 close-up of that zip!
🔽 Rosehips sparkling with raindrops. I couldn’t get close enough for a macro-shot
4th February 2026
And now for the fungi. We were not looking, yet somehow we found them…
4th February 2026
🔼 Turkey-tails 🔽 some kind of yellow crust
4th February 2026
🔽 I’m thinking this is probably another crust or a bracket. What we’re seeing is the underside of the fungus
4th February 2026
4th February 2026
🔼 Oysterlings. There are several species, I’m not sure which one this is 🔽 Yellow brain. That’s quite an easy one to recognise!
4th February 2026
That’s all for today. More miscellaneous pics and fungi fun next week
Hope you enjoyed
crispina kemp 
What fabulous fungi 🍄🙌
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I would say they’re a good standby for the flowerless months. But there’s more fungi in evidence at the moment than usual. For which I’m thankful, for many/most of the wild flowers are very late putting in an appearance
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🙌
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🥰🥰🥰
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Amazing photos 😊💜
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Thank you, Maggie. I confess, it can be a bit of a struggle at this time of year. But… I manage!
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You have such a variety of geese and fungi! Lovely. That zipper is something else!
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Thank you. I was going to post just the zip mechanism. Then realised it would confuse all but those in the know (and that’s not many). So I had to use the full pic too
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Oh for sure you had to include the whole shebang. It is way more impressive that way!
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These iron sculptures are set 1 mile apart. The entire trail is 25 miles. I have photos of almost all (I miss a small section in the middle)
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Wow!!
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February Fungi! You just never cease to amaze me! hehehe
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There is one fungi that I only ever find in February (see next week’s post) The rest, all I can say is it’s been very very wet!!!!!
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Loving those turkey tails! Nice find!
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Love fungi. Such a delight to find at this time of year
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I love these! That first flower is perfection! 🙂 ❤
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Although these do grow in the wild, that one was definitely a recent garden escapee!
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Thanks to a careless up date …. I should have ignored jetpacks warning that I needed to update!!? This is the only way I can reach your blog for now. I love the flora and the fauna… Beautiful photos all. My favourite definitely the Catkins 💜💜💜💜
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You’re here, that’s what matters. Yea, catkins are so appreciated this time of year
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its good to get here when I can 💜💜
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That sounds like a line of a song 💜💜💜
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Lovely pictures my friend
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Thank you. Nature wins out, no matter how dismal the day!
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Very true my dear friend.
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👍💖
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🩷🩷🩷
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Wow! Lovely photos, Crispina.
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Thank you. I was happy I managed so many colour full photos!
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🙂
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🙏💖
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