late spring, early autumn!

It's hard to tell what season it is right now. Migrating birds are already featuring heavily in the mix, about two months earlier than I would usually think about them. Late spring species are around the place while mushrooms, under the influence of recent rains, are merrily emerging and sporificating abundantly.

This is the rather plain but still charming Psathyrella condolleana, which was sprouting freely from a long fallen tree trunk.

Scattered black seta in the pileus mark candolleana

Mega passage of Siskins and Crossbills

Amazing morning of finch passage this morning with >400 Siskins and 71 Crossbills in 1.5 hours. You can see how these figures compare to averages across all years in the graphs below (vismig.org)

Dalgety Bay List - NBN update

I've taken  list of species from NBN which have been recorded in Dalgety Bay. Though the list was much smaller there were a considerable number of new species (and some I plainly forgot)

List update is here:

https://natureoffife.blogspot.com/p/dalgety-bay-list.html