Thursday Day 23 of 20 Days Wild found me finally doing a couple of urgent jobs that had needed doing for ages, getting material prepared for the coming Grasses and Sedges course this weekend at Blencathra, and (maybe a distraction activity)- trying to keep the living room the house tidier than it was half an hour ago. - I set a pinger to keep reminding myself of this every half hour. I did not go out for lunch. I stuck at my jobs. It was hot and sunny, but I kept the curtains closed. I also wrote a list of "not to do things" which included lichens, and to keeping the modem switched off.
By 4pm I had achieved some things.. AND I really needed some vitamin D and some exercise.
Perhaps I could just go along the Langcliffe high road just for an hour and look at the lichens (again in SD8264 - the same square as last week - which now had the third highest score. of 58.) and revisit the seat I had visited a few years ago.
It was hot and sunny. The lane is a good kilometre long- and bordered on both sides by the old limestone wall that had lost of extra sandstone stones in it.
I think my best find was a patch (and only one) of this:-
Caloplaca ochracea
I parked just off the main road, at the beginning of Langcliffe High Road (Langcliffe end) . At the beginning, on the gate post of Langcliffe Hall was some Opegrapha gyrocarpa- this is the second time I have seen it fruiting now.
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| Opegrapha gyrocarpa fruiting |
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| The seat. It has new "wood" made of plastic. |
Some of the dark fruited Lecanora was Lecanora campestris - both on the sandstone in the wall, under the shade of the tree - greywacke, and on the concrete side of the seat arms.
Also on several of the acid rocks was Lecanora rupicola
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| Lecanora rupicola |
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| Lecanora rupicola |
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| Lecanora rupicola on the right, young Ochrolechia parella on the left. |
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| A bit further along on acid rock was Caloplaca crenularia |
The score for SD8464 is no 67 - it is the winning Monad.
On the wooden gate was Parmelina pastillifera
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| Physcia caesia and Parmelina pastillifera |
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| Parmelina pastillifera |
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