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Myth, Magic and Mother Nature:
Fay Brotherhood's
Natural History Blog
By Fay Brotherhood BSc (Hons) MSc, FISC4
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Shining cranesbill Geranium lucidum
Geranium lucidum (shining cranesbill) shining in the sun and showing us all the reason for the name. Over time it goes bright red and is...
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Mar 81 min read
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The Midlands Microcraton
Out with my rock friends up on the heath at Charnwood Lodge National Nature Reserve yesterday evening. These outcrops are created of...
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Mar 81 min read
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Cladonia diversa - the Chernobyl lichen
I finally got it. I've found getting into these Cladonia "pixie cups" with red apothecia/pycnidia super tough because they all look so...
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Mar 81 min read
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Scarlet elf cups... the herald of spring!
My Fungi 2025 photo album begins with a most glorious find! The scarlet elf cup (Sarcoscypha austriaca), in an area of secondary woodland...
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Mar 71 min read
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Adventures in the Carrifran Wildwood part 1 - Jan 2025
The Carrifran Wildwood in the Southern Uplands. This aims to recreate an ancient wooded landscape within a 1620 acre valley in the Moffat...
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Mar 63 min read
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Common epiphytic lichens
A lovely little suite of common epiphytic lichens. Usnea subfloridana, Ramalina farinacea, hammered shield lichen Parmelia sulcata and...
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Mar 61 min read
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Racomitrium species of the Scottish Southern Lowlands
Exploration of Racomitrium mosses in the Moffat Hills
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Feb 61 min read
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Moss in the Moffat Hills
Another post from my trip to Scotland in January for the Temple of Prog! As I climbed toward the Grey Mares Tail gorge I was struck by...
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Feb 41 min read
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Grey Mares Tail Waterfall - Jan 2025
The rather "provocatively feminine" Grey Mares Tail waterfall on the Moffat Hills, Southern Uplands. One of Scotlands highest waterfalls...
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Jan 262 min read
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The "Bomb" rocks of Charnwood Lodge National Nature Reserve, Leicestershire
The "bomb rocks" of Charnwood Lodge National Nature Reserve are exposures of coarse and fragmented volcanic rocks, arranged chaotically...
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
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