Tuesday 23 December 2008

Seeing the Changes 159



It must be getting mild again. On the Loughor estuary, the Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) are busy fishing while clouds of Winter gnats (Trichocera relegationis) whirl around the cycle path at Bynea. Lots of Candle-snuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxyllon) in that location.

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