Feeding eider ducks (ærfugl) in shallow water in the bay this morning. One glance they’re there, the next they’re not.
Feeding eider ducks (ærfugl) in shallow water in the bay this morning. One glance they’re there, the next they’re not.
There are an enormous number of yew berries on the tree next to the kitchen window this year and this video shows how a vine (probably Vitis coignetiae) has found its way towards the light high up in the yew, which is Taxus × media “Hicksii”, the Anglojap or Hicks’ yew, which is a hybrid of Taxus baccata and Taxus cuspidata.
Most will be left for the birds, bringing both waxwings (sidensvans) and blackbirds (svarttrost) close to the house!
Looking even more like a sea monster / serpent this morning! Around 220 Eider duck (ærfugl) were in the bay this morning. I could hear theirfunny calls from the house!
A new species for the garden is The Grooved Bonnet (Sølvhette) or Mycena polygramma, a bioluminescent fungi important in decomposing organic matter, recycling nutrients and forming humus in the soil, growing in the wild part of the garden next to a hazel. No bioluminescence seen though! Thanks to Berit Elle for the ID and Per Marstad for the verification!
The pilot missed, trying to land on the reflection! :)
The Malvik monster swimming in the bay this morning?
No, just the resident flock of eider duck (ærfugl), some 80 birds:
Runner beans (blomsterbønner) are always ripening at the end of september to early october here before the frost stops them. They made a delicious whole grain rye/barley/oat sourdough pizza (bread dough).
There’s a giant fairy ring in the garden, perhaps 10m in diameter, formed by a fungi called the trooping funnel (Clitocybe geotropa) or heggetraktsopp in Norwegian. This year only a few fungi have appeared. The pictures are from 12th October 2013:
A line of cloud funnels or puddertraktsopp (Clitocybe nebularis) were found this week in the wild part of the garden. Edible if cooked for 10 mins. I haven’t tried yet.