Birds, orchids, butterflies and all other wildlife pestered by my camera. Love playing poker and harmonica (but not at the same time!)
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It doesn’t look much but I’ve been wanting to find it for a while - Beechmast Candlesnuff (Xylaria carpophila). Not rare, but very small and only found on old beechmast 😎 #fungi
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If anyone fancies a winter warmer, you could join me in Shetland in January 2027 where I'll be leading the Up Helly Aa tour for my good friends @shetlandnature. There'll be winter wildlife, spectacular coastal scenery, and Europe's biggest fire festival:
shetlandnature.net/holidays/…
ALT The Viking galley is consumed with flames - Up Helly Aa 2024 © Jon Dunn
ALT Wildlife comes in all shapes and sizes! Up Helly Aa 2024 © Jon Dunn
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Just when I thought the 2026 butterfly & moth season couldn't get any madder, I get an Elephant Hawkmoth in my moth trap in early October (normally flying in May & June).
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Dog Stinkhorn (Mutinus caninus) - have just noticed there’s a small, grey mushroom hiding nearby 🍂🌿
Seen on NSBFG meeting over the weekend #Fungi #Mushrooms
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Looking like it's been dragged down a sooty chimney, the next Colias to feature in my clouded yellow summer is the darkly enigmatic Northern Clouded Yellow.
To say they gave me the runaround in Arctic Norway is an understatement! They fly just a tiny bit faster than I can run...
ALT Northern Clouded Yellow (Colias hecla), seen on the Butterflies of the European Arctic tour I co-led for Mariposa Nature Tours © Jon Dunn
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I wasn’t looking for Holly Parachute (Marasmius hudsonii) today, it just popped into my eye line - always welcome though, and look at that tiny one !! #fungi #NewForest 5/10/26
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Some tiny mushrooms seen across Somerset 🤍 #MushroomMonday #Fungi
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Velvet Brittlegill (Russula violeipes) 💛💜
Exmoor #MushroomMonday #Fungi
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Tour update 🚨
As of this afternoon, just one place remaining to join the dream team of @thenewgalaxy & Dave Fairhurst for Orchids of Cyprus next spring. Naturally, the tour generates a donation to support the work of @BSBIbotany.
mariposanature.com/tours/bot…
ALT Ophrys iricolor © Dr Richard Bate
ALT Ophrys kotschyi © Dr Richard Bate
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Blusher (Amanita rubescens) at Otterhead Lakes, Somerset #Fungi #Mushrooms 🍄🟫🍂
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First Holly Parachute of the year (Marasmius hudsonii) in N Somerset today 🍂💚 #Fungi #Mushrooms
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Bleeding Fairy Helmet (Mycena haematopus), great fungi, great vernacular name ! Dorset 3/10/26 #fungi
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Dorset fungi finally starting to appear. All these in woodland at Powerstock Common Nature Reserve. 3/10/26 #fungi @DorsetWildlife
ALT Various woodland fungi, including Sulphur Tuft, Hoof fungus, Giant Funnel, Death Cap, False Death Cap, Amethyst Deceiver, Green Elfcup, Bleeding Fairy Helmet, various Russulas and more…
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Earlier this year, I tried (unsuccessfully) to protect a Bee Orchid, right in the heart of my village. Well, I’ve found another rosette in a similar location- time to try again (it’s a long time until flowering time though 😬) #orchid
ALT Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) rosette
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Birch Webcap (Phlegmacium triumphans) and Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum) at Otterhead Lakes, Somerset 🌿🍄🟫 #Fungi #Mushrooms
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A fabulous morning fungi foray (finally) and a bewildering array of boletes. There might be more posts when I’ve worked out what they all are 😅 29/9/26 #fungi
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Tour update 🚨
As of this morning, now just one place remaining to join Mariposa founder and European butterfly finder extraordinaire David Moore for Spring Butterflies of the French Pyrenees:
mariposanature.com/tours/but…
ALT Violet Copper (Lycaena helle) © Clive Burrows
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One of the most beautiful things in nature, just now. The humble ‘conker’ 🤎
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