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David Stevens
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Amateur photographer based in Scotland with interest in nature, particularly fungi and wildlife. Nikon camera and an iPhone. All photographs my own unless otherwise stated.

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David Stevens @davidst999.bsky.social · Nov 22
Beautiful colouration of the caps and stems together with the gill structure of Velvet Shank mushrooms (Flammulina velutipes) make these very photogenic. Just coming into season here now. Valued in Japanese cuisine known as 'enoketake'. #FridayFungi #Mushrooms #FungiFriends #Mycology #Scotland 🍄
View of a cluster of Velvet Shank mushrooms (Flammulina velutipes) showing the velvety stems and the yellow gills on the underside of the caps. View of a cluster of Velvet Shank mushrooms (Flammulina velutipes) showing the velvety stems and the yellow gills on the underside of the caps. View of a cluster of Velvet Shank mushrooms (Flammulina velutipes) showing the velvety stems and the yellow gills on the underside of the caps. View of a cluster of Velvet Shank mushrooms (Flammulina velutipes) showing the velvety stems and the yellow gills on the underside of the caps.
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As right wing rags attack the chancellor for her Budget, they can't ignore the disastrous impact Brexit has had on our economy.
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight. Here is a little Green Heron caught by a shaft of sunlight as it penetrated the swamp at Sweetwater Strand along Loop Road, Everglades, Florida. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight. Here is a little Green Heron caught by a shaft of sunlight as it penetrated the swamp at Sweetwater Strand along Loop Road, Everglades, Florida. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"You seem happier"

Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #HeadShots, any Birds 'Close Up Capture'. So here is another Atlantic Puffin shot taken out on The Isle of May, National Nature Reserve. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon @seabirdcentre.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #HeadShots, any Birds 'Close Up Capture'. So here is another Atlantic Puffin shot taken out on The Isle of May, National Nature Reserve. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon @seabirdcentre.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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EU Commission Regulation on pollinator monitoring was published today. 1/2
environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
Better monitoring to support restoration of EU pollinators
The Commission has adopted a new Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
environment.ec.europa.eu
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Today's #BirdoftheDay prompt is #OntheEdge. An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) on a clifftop overlooking the North Sea. The Isle of May, National Nature Reserve off the East Coast of Scotland with 46,000 breeding pairs of puffins. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon @seabirdcentre.bsky.social
Today's #BirdoftheDay prompt is #OntheEdge. An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) having a quiet moment on a clifftop overlooking the North Sea. The Isle of May, a National Nature Reserve off the East Coast of Scotland with 46,000 breeding pairs of puffins amongst some 250,000 seabirds that breed annually on this tiny island. Including Guillemot, Kittiwakes, Arctic Terns, Eider Duck, Shag, Razorbills, Oyster Catchers and various gulls. Also a stop off point for many migratory birds coming over the North Sea from Europe and Scandinavia.
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HangingAround, which is 'Birds at Unusual Angles'
Here is a Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus), winter visitors from Scandinavia, performing acrobatics to get to the juiciest berries. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HangingAround, which is 'Birds at Unusual Angles' Here is a Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus), winter visitors from Scandinavia, performing acrobatics to get to the juiciest berries.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Gemini! Earthstar twins in the garden. A pair of entwined Striate or Striated Earthstars (Gaestrum striatum) have appeared under a conifer behind my shed. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon
Gemini! Earthstar twins in the garden. A pair of entwined Striate or Striated Earthstars (Gaestrum striatum) have appeared under a conifer behind my shed. There is an older one just poking through the leaf and conifer debris just below the left one. Gemini! Earthstar twins in the garden. A pair of entwined Striate or Striated Earthstars (Gaestrum striatum) have appeared under a conifer behind my shed. There is an older one just poking through the leaf and conifer debris just below the left one.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #Warblers. Here is a Prairie Warbler taken a few years ago in March in a mangrove swamp in Fort Lauderdale, FL. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon
A Prairie Warbler taken a few years ago in March in a mangrove swamp in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n... "He speaks for the majority of the country whose voices wouldn’t count in the same way.”
Huge support for Chris Packham after Devon hunt row
Campaigner sparks fierce debate after wading into Tiverton's Boxing Day hunt controversy
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November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Purple jellydisc (Ascocoryne cylichnium) found on some well rotted logs in a West Lothian woodland yesterday. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon
A small group of Purple jellydisc (Ascocoryne cylichnium) found on a well rotted log in a West Lothian woodland yesterday. Single Purple jellydisc (Ascocoryne cylichnium) found on well rotted log in a West Lothian woodland yesterday. Another small group of Purple jellydisc (Ascocoryne cylichnium) found on well a rotted log in a West Lothian woodland yesterday. Another Purple jellydisc (Ascocoryne cylichnium) found on a well rotted log in a West Lothian woodland yesterday.
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MrAndMrs.
Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) mating on the nesting tower at Tigertail Beach, Marco Island, Florida. #birds 🪶 #BirdPhotography #Photography
Female Osprey calling her mate in. The nesting tower at Tigertail Beach, Marco Island, Florida. She carries on arranging the sticks in the nest while he gets his balance. Ready Still arranging the nest!
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) on lots of mossy logs today in a West Lothian woodland. #Fungus #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Macro
Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) on lots of mossy logs today in a West Lothian woodland. Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) on lots of mossy logs today in a West Lothian woodland.
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Crimped Gill fungus (Plicatura crispa) on a log today in a West Lothian woodland. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Macro
The underside of some Crimped Gill (Plicatura crispa) on a log today in a West Lothian woodland. The caps of some Crimped Gill (Plicatura crispa) on a log today in a West Lothian woodland.
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Olive Oysterling mushrooms (Sarcomyxa serotina or Panellus serotinus) aka Late Oyster taken today on a dead tree near Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social
Olive Oysterling mushrooms (Sarcomyxa serotina or Panellus serotinus) aka Late Oyster taken today on a dead tree near Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. Olive Oysterling mushrooms (Sarcomyxa serotina or Panellus serotinus) aka Late Oyster taken today on a dead tree near Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. Olive Oysterling mushrooms (Sarcomyxa serotina or Panellus serotinus) aka Late Oyster taken today on a dead tree near Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. Olive Oysterling mushrooms (Sarcomyxa serotina or Panellus serotinus) aka Late Oyster taken today on a dead tree near Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve.
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Tiny fruiting bodies of Green elf cup (Chlorciboria aeruginascens) found this morning near Bavelaw Marsh at Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Macro @scotwildlife.bsky.social
Tiny fruiting bodies of Green elf cup (Chlorciboria aeruginascens) found this morning near Bavelaw Marsh at Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. Tiny fruiting bodies of Green elf cup (Chlorciboria aeruginascens) found this morning near Bavelaw Marsh at Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. Tiny fruiting bodies of Green elf cup (Chlorciboria aeruginascens) found this morning near Bavelaw Marsh at Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. Tiny fruiting bodies of Green elf cup (Chlorciboria aeruginascens) found this morning near Bavelaw Marsh at Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve.
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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New data suggest that insect life continues to decline, despite a hot summer - Buglife latest news...

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Buglife News ~ New data suggest that insect life continues to decline, despite a hot summer
Read more of our latest news related to invertebrates, insects and bugs.
www.buglife.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Winter is here! Hair Ice in a Midlothian woodland this morning. Formed on dead wood, mainly beech. Even found a group of Rosy Bonnets (Mycena rosea) looking after a little bit of it. #ExidiopsisEffusa #Fungi #Nature #Photography #Nikon
Hair Ice in a Midlothian woodland this morning. Formed on dead wood, mainly beech. Hair Ice in a Midlothian woodland this morning. Formed on dead wood, mainly beech. Hair Ice in a Midlothian woodland this morning. Formed on dead wood, mainly beech. A little group of Rosy Bonnets (Mycena rosea) looking after a bit of Hair Ice on a twig.
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Pipe clubs (Macrotyphula fistulosa) appear to have several synonyms (Clavariadelphus fistulosus) (Clavaria fistulosa) and (Typhula fistulosa) in a Midlothian woodland today. Described as "widespread and rather common", very hard to spot. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon
Pipe clubs (Macrotyphula fistulosa) appear to have several synonyms (Clavariadelphus fistulosus) (Clavaria fistulosa) and (Typhula fistulosa) in a Midlothian woodland today. Described as "widespread and rather common". Probably are but very hard to spot. Pipe clubs (Macrotyphula fistulosa) appear to have several synonyms (Clavariadelphus fistulosus) (Clavaria fistulosa) and (Typhula fistulosa) in a Midlothian woodland today. Described as "widespread and rather common". Probably are but very hard to spot Pipe clubs (Macrotyphula fistulosa) appear to have several synonyms (Clavariadelphus fistulosus) (Clavaria fistulosa) and (Typhula fistulosa) in a Midlothian woodland today. Described as "widespread and rather common". Probably are but very hard to spot
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A solitary bonnet on a mossy stump! #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social
A solitary bonnet on a mossy stump!
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Glistening Ink caps (Coprinellus micaceus) aka Mica caps appearing all over the place in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #iPhone @scotwildlife.bsky.social
Glistening Ink caps (Coprinellus micaceus) aka Mica caps growing on a root or on buried wood. Glistening Ink caps on a mossy log. Glistening Ink caps on an old dead tree. From another angle.
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
From seabirds to sea turtles: the fatal toll of plastic revealed
A new study pinpoints the deadly thresholds of plastic ingestion for marine life.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Wood ears or Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #iPhone
Wood ears or Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. Wood ears or Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae) in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh.
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Common Eyelash fungus (Scutellinia scutellata) on logs in Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. Currently less than 1mm at the moment but are going to make really impressive displays as they grow. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Macro @scotwildlife.bsky.social
Common Eyelash fungus (Scutellinia scutellata) on logs in Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. The largest are currently less than 1mm at the moment but are going to make really impressive displays as they grow. Different log. Look like the logs of a conifer that was recently felled and cut up after it blew over in a storm.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda) taken today in Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. This was one of several in the flower meadow but they are showing all over the Reserve. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social
Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda) taken today in Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. This was one of several in the flower meadow but they are showing all over the Reserve.
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM