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Tiny Eastern-tailed Blue butterfly hiding-out in a clump of tall meadow grass. Seasonally common and about the size of your thumbnail...
Looking out the front window I found I wasn't the only one interested in getting some lunch. The little sparrows were going from one grass clump to another looking for seeds. We got another four inches of snow today and was curious to see the look through the snow.
Texture by Lenebem-Anna.
Another photo from the Pismo Beach Monarch Grove. I stayed for the informational talk by the docent. She explained that though you see clumps of Monarchs, each one is touching the foliage and they are not on top of each other. It's worth sticking around for the talk if you visit.
In fact the lawn is full of them in this unnaturally mild winter, and our first clump of snowdrops is almost finished. Beautiful but worrying!
From the left: Round Hill, Castle Hill, and Brightwell Barrow. The name Wittenham Clumps actually refers only to the wooded tops of Round Hill and Castle Hill (the latter an Iron Age hill fort with banks and ditches), and should more correctly be called the Sinodun Hills. Over 200,000 visitors a year enjoy climbing the hills with their spectacular views of what is an otherwise remarkably flat landscape.
Blackburnian Warblers pick insects and their larvae from high in the tops of both coniferous and deciduous trees, where they often search entire branches from base to tip by hopping and creeping along them, looking up at the underside of leaves and inside clumps of dead leaves when present. They also pluck insects from the underside of leaves by hovering (known as “hover-gleaning”) and occasionally catch insects in flight.
Sometimes it's just cool to just sit and watch pairs interact. This guy made a pass over its mate with a toothpick size twig at first. One glare from the mate and he knew he failed. He droped the twig, swooped down to the ground, just grabbed a clump of goop and stuff. Returned to the nest to a happy mate.
No, that's not a nickname for our new King :-) it's the name of this group of magnificent trees at the high point of Cheesefoot Head in Hampshire..
Stitched from jpegs taken with the Panasonic S5 and 18mm f1.8 lens.
The heather is in full bloom at present and providing a wonderful rich colour to the landscape and in particular to the mountainside landscape of Mount Leinster.
Had my eye on this clump of trees for a while now and finally went to get a photo of it. I think it'll look good with a sunrise behind it so that'll hopefully be my next visit.
Pyracantha coccinea, firethorn, fruit. I guess these are like tiny apples in structure, as this plant is a member of the rose family. Some of this fruit is further along in time and maturity.
Thank you for looking. Isn't God a great artist?
Along the north side of the British Army’s main train area on Salisbury Plain, only a 20 feet wide unpaved perimeter road (and a fence!) separate the ranges from some stunning scenery.
There are few places that capture the emptiness of the area than the lonely clumps of beech trees that pepper the landscape, some just a hundred metres from the boundary fence.
At Charlton, where I took these shots, there are 4 clumps of between 4 and 8 trees that make a cracking backdrop for sun sets and sun rises.
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The Mesembryanthemums are coming out to flower now , so it must be warm and sunny . I usually see these appear late June and into July and the flowers only open in the sunshine . It is a smaller display this year and quite a bit of the clump has died off after long winter - as it is it is good to see what has survived !!
As its English names suggest, the Gatekeeper (also known as the Hedge Brown) is often encountered where clumps of flowers grow in gateways and along hedgerows and field edges. It is often seen together with the Meadow Brown and Ringlet. This Gatekeeper was seen on heathland in the New Forest, Hampshire.
The weather was beautiful last weekend, so we did lots of bluebelling. The woods and the flowers were all very different in character. This wood is managed by the National Trust and they seem to keep it clear of brambles and fallen branches, so it was easy to take photos. The bluebells here were also the darkest, almost purple.
The trees that top Castle Hill at Wittenham Clumps sit in a covering of mist with the sun lighting up the sky behind.
We were treated to quite a hoar-frost yesterday and it was great to have chance to head out and capture this magical spectacle. Hunton Clump made an ideal subject to show off the effects of the frost.
Such a strikingly beautiful bird, Eastern Towhees can be heard and found in just about any clump of woods, here, like this one at Graham Creek yesterday!
The storm clouds and thunder showers were in clumps, and seemed to be going in all different directions ... alas this long exposure I took at Bryce Point shows how they were doing just that. Made it hard to tell where to head next to stay just out of the lightning's reach and the heavier showers.
Orlingbury is our neighbouring village in North Northamptonshire, and I often take our little Yorkie up to their beautiful village green for her morning walk. There is one little clump of snowdrops that has flowered, and I couldn't resist grabbing a shot. This must surely be a sign that spring is not far away.
Brisbane Lily – Proiphys cunninghamii
Seen in forests in southeast Queensland with established clumps of lily's putting up flowering stems to the end of December.
These guys are growing amongst native ferns to try and hide them from pests
An introduced pest the lily borer caterpillar can wipe out these plants in Brisbane.
Probably wise to have young plants germinating each year or so and to watch your plants closely through the year.
Link to a photo of the Lily borer caterpillar in my gallery
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My second shot from Burrator Dam and one from the other side of the river.
I'd walked over the top of the dam and down through the patch of woodland to the riverbank and get up my camera on a large clump of rocks on the side to get this view. I'm not 100% on the composition but it's still a nice sight to see the water flowing down from this spot.
• Zulu giant / giant carrion plant / giant toad plant
• Flor carroña gigante
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Asterids
Order:Gentianales
Family:Apocynaceae
Subfamily:Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:Stapeliae
Genus:Stapelia
Species:S. gigantea
From my collection
Very variable species with the largest flowers in the genus ranging from 100-400 mm in diameter. Clump-forming succulent with fat, green, erect, deeply ribbed stems, up to 200 mm tall and 30 mm thick.
The flowers are large, star-shaped 5-petalled, pale yellow in color, with transverse crimson lines variable in color and covered with purplish or crimson hairs.
It is the most widely north-south distributed species and occurs in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.