Oak Apple Gall wasps have been busy already this season.

#TwitterNatureCommunity #oakgalls #gallwasps #oaks #DorsetWildlife #wildlfowerhour #insects #wasps #trees

Green-winged Orchid alba variant, near as damn it.

#ukorchids #springwatch #wildflowerhour #orchids #twitternaturecommunity #twitternaturephotography #Durlston #greenwingedorchid #ukwildlife

Red Kite over Brand's Bay, #Studland , today.

#dorsetbirds #redkite #kites #birdsofprey #Purbeck

And for those who don't go a bundle on botany, here's a lovely iridescent Oil Beetle. It's about the size of a Brazil nut.

#Springwatch #insects #oilbeetle #beetles #twitternaturecommunity #twitternaturephotography #twitteraintwhatitusedtobe #ukwildlife #uknature #bugs #Purbeck

Close-up of a Green-winged Orchid.

#springwatch #wildflowerhour #orchids #ukorchids #twitternaturecommunity #twitternaturephotography #purple #greenwingedorchid

Early Purple Orchid in the morning mist.

#Purbeck #britishorchids #wildflowerhour #orchids #twitternaturecommunity #springwatch #purple

Along the #Purbeck coast several Early Spider Orchids are now in flower.

#orchids #springwatch #wildflowerhour #TwitterNatureCommunity #TwitterNaturePhotography #wildflowers

Wandering round Poole Harbour I chanced up patches of what I thought was brown rice washed up on the #shore . Upon closer inspection I could see they were tiny helical shells...id unknown.
#shells #seashells #TwitterNaturePhotography #twitternaturecommunity #beachcombing #Purbeck

Silver Birch gnawed and nibbled.
Is this what Boris meant when he said 'Build Back Beaver'?

#Winterwatch #TwitterNatureCommunity #beavers #rewilding #trees #Boris

Enough with the figgy pudding already.

#wildflowerhour #twitternaturecommunity #figs #Christmasfood #wintertrees #figtrees

Witches' Broom on Silver Birch.

#TwitterNatureCommunity #trees #silverbirch #witchesbroom #WinterIsComing

With its marzipan scent Winter Heliotrope knows precisely how many sleeps there are until #Christmas .

#wildflowerhour #TwitterNatureCommunity #TwitterNaturePhotography #winter #heliotrope #ukwildflowers #Purbeck

Some, it would seem, are not bothered by this ceaselessly squally weather at all.

#Autumnwatch #ukbutterflies #TwitterNatureCommunity #Peacock #Peacock s #Purbeck #britishwildlife #nectarplants #britishweather

A fine rosette. Henbane setting out its stall for the coming year.

#wildflowerhour #henbane #Halloween 2023 #Halloween #TwitterNatureCommunity #HoneyBane #psychotropic #witches

As far as the eye can see, Common Storksbill.

#wildflowerhour #storksbill #TwitterNatureCommunity #pink #geranium #autumnwatch

Tansy-leaved Phacelia. Related to Borage, good as a green manure and beloved of honey bees and hoverflies, it's an import from California. This one's rather late to flower.

#wildflowerhour #phacelia #nonnativeplants #allotments #greenmanure #TwitterNatureCommunity

More id help required please. This I've pencilled in as Bur-marigold sp. Never seen the likes!

#wildflowerhour #burmarigold #ukwildflowers #twitternaturecommunity #autumnwatch

Guessing here but this striking fungus looks like a Scarlet Waxcap. Definitive id welcome!
It didn't end up in a mushroom omelette.

#wildflowerhour #fungi #foraging #Purbeck #waxcaps #twitternaturecommunity #TwitterNaturePhotography #autumn watch #autumn #britishnature #red

Chains of attractive Black Bryony berries in the hedges at the moment.

#wildflowerhour #bryony #TwitterNatureCommunity #autumn #autumn watch #berries

Madonna and Child.
Roe Deer and fawn at the cliff edge at #Durlston Country Park this morning.
(The weather is now perfect[ly awful] for sending out #tweets in the dry.)

#twitternaturecommunity #deer #roedeer #Purbeck #autumnwatch #ukwildlife #ukmammals #madonnaandchild #Sunday