The Wildeep Daily

Puccinia albescens, a rust fungus, growing all over these townhall clock plants.

All photos from April.

Tongue and Groove #FencepostOfTheWeek

Auspicious signs in Inverary!

Buff-tip moth from Achnabreac near Lochgilphead yesterday.

A close look at some of the different scale/hair shapes contributing to its fancy get-up.

So many bones. A thick layer of detritus from the bottom of a barn owl nest box.

A splendid male adder, ready for action on the 23rd April. This year I missed all the action :'(

Found this enchanting little ruin by the Stowhall Burn above Acharossan. A corn drying kiln, perhaps.

A 3d scan of the same. I think I found the flue.

Below is a link to a fleshed-out diagram of a scottish corn drying kiln:

Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

I stumbled across this small cottage on a trackless wander through a dense local conifer plantation. The inhabitant - a woodsman, perhaps? - seems to have planted up the front garden with redwood trees. A bold choice for your herbaceous borders if ever there was one.

Some lovely, leathery textures on this very fresh cabbage white chrysalis. <3

I've been seeking out a delicate little lichen called Arctomia - it has beautiful deep red apothecia and is one of the many denizens of lush mini-jungles that form in the canopy of liverwort mats on tree trunks in danker woodlands in these parts.

Always check your stumps ^_^