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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 14h

It's definitely Wild Strawberry - I've recorded it there for many years! I assume it's some sort of mutation.

Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Has anyone else ever come across a Wild Strawberry flower looking quite like this? The serrated petal margin is certainly new to me! #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A flower of Wild Strawberry, with five white petals around a domed yellow mound covered with pistils which is surrounded by spoon-shaped golden stamens. This flower has unusually serrate petals.

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A few fungi from a visit to Roydon Common on Tuesday 6/10 - one of a large group of Deathcaps around an oak, the underside of a Fairy-ring Champignon, and Sphagnum Greyling and Sphagnum Brownie both found near the edge of the mire. #fungifriends

A young Deathcap Amanita phalloides fungus with a greenish-ellow cap, white stem and the volva visible at the base

The underside of a Fairy-ring Champignon Marasmius oreades

A Sphagnum Greyling Sphagnurus paluster emerging from a clump of Sphagnum moss

A Sphagnum Brownie Hypholoma elongatum with alight brown cap and very long, slender stem, emerging from Sphagnum moss and surrounded by Purple Moor-grass, Heather and Cranberry

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Despite the heavy rain, yesterday's Peterborough moth trap contained a nice mix of migrant and autumn species, including our first ever Ni Moth (been waiting for that one!), our second Vestal, the first Brindled Green of the season and a Large Wainscot living up to its name. #teammoth #mothsmatter

A Ni Moth patterned in shades of greyish and tawny brown, with a whitish mark on the wing and two tufts of scales on the thorax

The Vestal moth - triangular in shape with pale yellowish-ochre wings, each marked with a diagonal brown line - very pristine

A Brindled Green moth patterned in shades of green, grey and cream to mimic a lichen

Side-view of a Large Wainscot with pale cream wings lightly scattered with fine black dots

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've now added it as an App record. I suspect it's me who should be apologising - the record was made during a quick visit to the NNR after a day helping with entomological fieldwork at Wolferton - I suspect I completely forgot about entering it at the time!

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NatureBureau @naturebureau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Fenland Flora by Owen Mountford & Jon Graham (with 300 photos & over 1000 maps). This 1400-page, 2-volume set has now gone to print. Pre-pub offer ends 31 Oct 2026 -visit naturebureau.co.uk/bookshop now & SAVE £25 on published price @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlife.bsky.social

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I photographed it there in August 2015 and haven’t seen it since!

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bedford Purlieus NNR yesterday, where a sunny ride-margin contained plenty of flowering Wild Basil and Vervain - one of my favourite plants. In shadier areas Dewberry was also having a late flush of flowers... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seen flowering at Swaddywell NR this week - Wild Mignonette, Common Centaury, Blue Fleabane and Agrimony - all species which thrive in brownfield sites on calcareous substrates. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite the lack of rain, I managed to find a few colourful fungi in Bedford Purlieus NNR highlight being the rare webcap Thaxterogaster collocandoides (in the same place as last year when it was confirmed by an expert), Deceptive Knight and Charcoal Burner #fungifriends

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A much cooler night than of late, so the moth trap was almost bare this morning - but still exciting to find our first Scarce Bordered Straw of the year- only recorded once before from our Peterborough trap in 2019 #mothsmatter #teammoth

Scarce Bordered Straw sitting on a piece of weathered wood

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s established in our garden and has been flowering for months - a plant that’s really enjoyed the heat

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Having enviously watched everyone reporting The Vestal from their traps, one finally made it to our Peterborough garden last night - at last!!! #mothsmatter #teammoth

The Vestal, a moth with triangular pale yellow fore-wings with a diagonal pink line across the base and a thin line of pink on the leading edge

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good to find a very beautifully marked Beaded Chestnut in the trap this morning, NFY. Plus repeat visits from very fresh Small Mottled Willow, Beet Moth and Cypress Pug after a long hiatus... #mothsmatter #teammoth

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not sure - all sort of odd things turn up on 'wild flower' mixes, so could well be!

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Always a good day when the first thing you find in the morning is a pristine Merveille du Jour moth sitting on the sheet next to the Peterborough moth trap - NFY. I always forget just how stunning they are... #mothsmatter #teammoth

A Merveille du Jour moth sitting on a log, with wings in shades of green with a black and white lacy pattern over the top

Side view of a Merveille du Jour moth on a log, with wings in shades of green with a black and white lacy pattern over the top and white legs ringed in black

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

some flashes of Gesneriaceae that caught my eye from the last few days (cos who can resist a Gesnerid?) Kohleria stuebeliana, endemic to the eastern slope of the eastern Andes in Colombia Columnea microcalyx Episcia cupreata Besleria solanoides #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you - it was an amazing thing to see!

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a miserable lot they are! Shield-bugs are wonderful! I was amazed at the soft coral-pink colour of this Hairy Shield-bug I watched emerging from its larval case a few years ago...

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the second Harpy Eagle encounter in two days, in the Sierra de la Macarena words fail. just an awesome beast, in an awesome location, thanks to some awesome people, who have brought us to a place where tourism was unimaginable just a decade ago. we will be back.

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we were invited back to #Colombia this autumn by @procolombiaco.bsky.social and our friends at Nature Colombia with the promise of the world's biggest bird of prey. as you can see, they have more than lived up to their promise. and it's not over yet... #HarpyEagle #WildlifeTravelling

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In one small area of saltmarsh at Holme-next-the-Sea we found plenty of Sea Aster - some fully-rayed Tripolium pannonicum var. pannonicum, lots of rayless Tripolium pannonicum var. flosculosum and some that was unsure of its identity... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sea Aster Tripolium pannonicum var. pannonicum with soft purple ray florets surrounding the yellow disc florets

Sea Aster Tripolium pannonicum var. flosculosum with just yellow disc florets

Sea Aster Tripolium pannonicum with just a few purple ray florets surrounding the yellow disc florets

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A beautiful autumn day on the Norfolk Coast studying the flora of shingle, dunes and saltmarsh with a group of improving botanists - all records entered into the BSBI App! Names in ALT #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thankfully I have a flip screen and just put the camera down on the ground!

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The continuing dry weather means that fungi are still rather sparse, but good to find a fresh group of Lurid Bolete yesterday, associated with Small-leaved Lime at Collyweston Great Wood NNR. Not uncommon in our local woods, but nearly always slug-eaten or rotten when I find it! #fungifriends

Lurid Bolete Suillelus luridus photographed from below showing orange-red pores and stipe covered with a reddish mesh

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After a tip-off from a friend, I was pleased to re-find the Striated Bird's-nest fungi at @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay Forest. First seen by me late last autumn, it was interesting to see them at an earlier stage, when the fruiting bodies are covered with brownish hairs #figifriends #fungi

Five Striated Bird's-nest Cyathus striatus fungi on buried wood, three unopened ones covered with light-brown curled hairs, and two just opened showing the 'eggs'

Close-up of four Striated Bird's-nest Cyathus striatus fungi , three unopened ones covered with light-brown curled hairs, and one just opened showing the 'eggs'

Close-up of two mature Striated Bird's-nest Cyathus striatus fungi, the now hairless brown 'nests' containing the 'eggs' or peridioles

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fungal highlight of the week - one of a group of Dewdrop Dapperling found on the edge of a grassy ride through ancient woodland at @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay Forest. New to me and seemingly a very local species nationally, with very few records in the Peterborough area #fungifriends #fungi

$A Dewdrop Dapperling Chamaemyces fracidus, a creamy-white mushroom with drops of moisture on the cap, with a membranous ring that's rough-textured below, with more drops of moisture$

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

from the Andean cloud forest, we dropped all the way down to the great wet plains of the Llanos, where we finished the day with two fantastic Giant Anteater sightings and a handful of Hoatzins #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia (and the least said about the lost passport, the better...)

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

on the first day of our #famtrip to Colombia, we had a breakfast appointment with the Cundinamarca Antpitta only discovered in the 1990s, the entire world population is squeezed into the cloud forest between 2000m & 2200m asl on a handful of Andean hillsides #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you Rob - hastily done as I was training a group of botanists at the time!!

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After a year when I've seen more UK Clouded Yellow butterflies than ever before, mostly zipping past at high speed while I've been recording grassland quadrats, yesterday one finally stopped in front of me to nectar on Common Stork's-bill at Snettisham Beach

A Clouded Yellow butterfly sipping nectar from flowers of Common Stork's-bill

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

for the last few days of our Brazil trip, Laurie and the group have left the Pantanal behind and headed into the mistily lush Atlantic Forest: fewer spots, but a lot more colourful #WildlifeTravelling in #Brazil

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw one yesterday - the first for ages, but it disappeared into some grass before I could get a photo!

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some of today's #fungi seen on a walk round @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay NR, including Tuberous Polypore on a fallen oak log (new to me), a tiny Matt Bolete, a much chunkier twin-headed Rooting Bolete and a Snowy Inkcap Coprinopsis nivea on dung #fungifriends

Tuberous Polypore Polyporus tuberaster on a fallen oak log

A two-headed Rooting Bolete Calloboletus radicans emerging from a bed of fallen leaves

A young Snowy Inkcap Coprinopsis nivea on dung

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For #mushroommonday, a very fine young cluster of Honey Fungus, seen on a walk round Bedford Purlieus NNR yersterday #fungifriends

A cluster of young Honey Fungus Armillaria mellea, golden in colour and surrounded by copper-coloured fallen Beech leaves with out-of-focus trees in the background

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fen-edge hedgerows along Etton Green Lane are draped with the pale green fruit of Wild Hop. Known to John Clare, hop featured in the opening line of 'June' in his Shepherd's Calendar - #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fruits of Wild Hop Humulus lupulus from Etton Green Lane which John Clare would have walked along. He referred to this species in his poem "June"

"Large bindweed bells, wild hop, and streak'd woodbine lifting their flowers for the morning dew..."

Close up of fruits of Wild Hop Humulus lupulus from Etton Green Lane

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For #wildflowerhour, three rather lovely species flowering well at Bedford Purlieus NNR today - Hairy Lady's-mantle (VU GB red List 2025), Tormentil and Common Eyebright - all very uncommon in the Peterborough area. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hairy Lady's-mantle Alchemilla filicaulis subsp. vestita, living up to its name

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Brazil, where even the small cats are big our group are now headed back along the Transpantaneira, having spent three amazing days with the Jaguars of Porto Jofre but the trip is far from over, as this Ocelot (our 2nd of the trip!) would like to point out #WildlifeTravelling in the #Pantanal

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A great LFG /LNU visit to the developing @lincswildlife.bsky.social Bourne North Fen NR with >120 species found including Yellow Bristle-grass, as well as Fen Pondweed in a groundwater-fed channel dominated by Equisetum x rothmaleri (new to VC53) @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Brian Hedley @manfrommarton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good to explore the emerging @lincswildlife.bsky.social Bourne North Fen site today with Lincs Naturalists' Union+ Lincs Flora Group Plant highlights incl. Yellow Bristle Grass, Fen Pondweed +Tubular Water-dropwort. 30 bird species noted incl. Barn Owl, 3 LRPs, Marsh Harriers @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can't wait to lead this @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social holiday to the amazing #Pantanal in September 2027 - check out wildlife-travel.co.uk/our-holidays... if you fancy joining us in exploring one of the world's most amazing wild places.

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Pantanal is living up to the hype... #WildlifeTravelling in #Brazil

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Found this Dyer's Mazegill this evening, emerging from the trunk of a Cedar-of-Lebanon felled a few years ago. Such wonderfully vibrant oranges and yellows. Not a species I've seen before in Peterborough... #fungifriends

Dyer's Mazegill Phaeolus schweinitzii - an orange and yellow bracket fungus emerging from the cut end of a felled Cedar-of-Lebanon

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

chomping through the veggies in the #Pantanal

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For #MushroomMonday Rooting Bolete Caloboletus radicans from @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay Forest NR, growing with oak. New to me, but apparently having a good year in Pterborough and Huntingdonshire with sightings from several ancient woodlands in the last week #fungifriends

Rooting Bolete Caloboletus radicans, with a pale cap, lemon-yellow pores that quickly turn blue when touched and a robust stipe which is lemon-yellow at the top.

Rooting Bolete Caloboletus radicans, rather damaged by slugs, showing pale cap, orange-yellow flesh, lemon-yellow pores and a robust slightly reticulate stipe which is lemon-yellow at the top.

Rooting Bolete Caloboletus radicans cut in half with a knife to show the blue colouration in both cap and stipe.

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Botanising with favourite people is hard to beat!

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Although it's feeling very autumnal, still some vestiges of summer on the limestone soils round Peterborough, with Common Calamint, Viper's-bugloss and Wild Thyme all still in flower this week on @wildlifebcn.org reserves #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Common Calamint Clinopodium ascendens at Wansford Pasture SSSI

Viper's-bugloss Echium vulgare at Stonepit Close, Old Sulehay NR

Wild Thyme Thymus drucei at Stonepit Close, Old Sulehay NR

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