Lichens

These are my posts about Lichens.
If you would like me to take you on a short lichens walk near Settle do contact me. Happy to show people in / near Settle the lichens in their garden.

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1. Tremolecia atrata and Waxcaps on a walk along the (south) Craven Fault above Settle
2. Pertusaria albescens and "Paley pink Pertusaria" song at Parcevall Hall
3. My chapter on lichens in the new "Christians Aware "Building Biodiversity" Book
4. YNU Field Excursion of Redmire Quarry 19 July 2025 - Lichens
5. YNU Field Excursion to Kingsdale Head Farm 5 July 2025 - Lichens
6. 1 July: Walk above Kingsdale Head Farm - Lichens and wildlife - in preparation for YNU excursion on Sat 5 July
7. Linton Churchyard Lichens: What five lichens should beginners look for in churchyards on look for on each of Acid rocks, Basic Rocks and Trees?  June 2025
8. Day 25 of 31 DaysWild - Pertusaria pertusa - Kilnsey Park estate Lichens  25 May 2025
9. Lichens in the SW tip of SD8069 - Helwith Bridge 2 May 2025
10. Cetraria aculeata or muricata above Cleatop Park.. And Lecanactis abietina in it.  1 May 2025
11. Lichens of Ingleborough YNU paper by Allan Pentecost and Mark Seaward April 2025
Hypotrachyna-horrescens in Woods at Tan-y-Bwlch
12. Rhizocarpon geographicum - Lichens of Linton Churchyard 3  1 April 2025
13. Blastenia (Caloplaca) crenularia - Lichens of Linton Churchyard 2.  31 March 2025
14. Myriolecis antiqua (Lecanora antiqua) - Lichens of Linton Church 1 h March 2025
15. Lichens in SE162165 (at the Tolson Museum) in an area with relatively few British Lichen Society records 1 Feb 2025
16. Can't make up my mind which photos to enter for the BLS Lichen contest Dec 2024
17. Sagiolechia protuberans - Lichens, mosses, bog, pavement - Cumbria-Swaledale border -24 Aug 2024
    
18. Solenopsora candicans or Rhizocarpon umbilicatum  4 July 2024
19. Settle Wildflowers 132a: Down the Ribble on 30 May SD8163: Lichens incl Xanthoria calcicola
20. Settle Wildflowers 131: 26 May 2024: Mitchell Lane into SD8262 - Good King Henry, then climbing the hil plus lichens
21. Halton Gill Bryophytes and Lichens - YNU walk 11 May
22. SD8460 Langber: Last monad of year 5 of Lichen Survey of SD86
23. Lichens at St John's Park Church, Sheffield 2 March 2024
24. Lichens at Cober Hill BLS Winter Meeting Feb 2024
25. Lichens and Mosses at Whitbarrow Cumbria Feb 2024
26. Newstead Abbey lichens at BLS 2024 AGM Nottingham field trip - Halecania viridescens Jan
27. Candelariella reflexa and Candelariella xanthostigma and C xanthostigmoides Jan 2024
28. Happy Christmas - White lichens and Purple Crystalwort beside the Ribble Dec 2024
29. Edith's Wood: Visit by group from Craven Conservation Group in October 2023 (not brilliant for lichens)
30. Climate Walk and Lichens on Swindale Ridge on 2 Sept 2023 -  before Wild Haweswater Talk by Lee Schofield on 21 Sept.
31. Lichens at The Yorkshire Arboretum September 2023
32. Old Garden Wall - Preston Montford Field Centre - Day 3 Late Afternoon of British Lichen Society field Meeting in Shropshire  July 2023
33. Jonathon's Hollow, Long Mynd - Day 3 of British Lichen Society Field Meeting in Shropshire 
34. Nipstone Rock, Day 2 Afternoon of the British Lichen Society field meeting in Shropshire
35. The Bog Mine, Day 2 Morning of the British Lichen Society field meeting in Shropshire
36. Titterstone Clee Hill Quarry - Day1 - Afternoon of British Lichen Society Field Meeting in Shropshire - Acarospora smaragdula, Sterocaulon pileatum 
37. Titterstone Clee Hill Boulder Slope - Day 1 Morning of British Lichen Society Field Meeting in Shropshire July 2023
38. 29 June 2023 Thursday: Evening flowers at Lower Winskill, and Fuscidea cyathoides and Pertusaria pseudocorallina in SD8366: 30 Days Wild and stats for my best monads
39. 22 June 2023- Thursday - Yet more lichens along Langcliffe High Road Caloplaca ochracea 30 Days Wild
40. 19 June 2023 Monday - More lichens in SD8264 - in Langcliffe - 30 Days Wild -Top of walled  footpath from main road down towards Railway  footbridge June 2023
41. 16 June 2023 Friday- Higher views down to Langcliffe & Settle - More Lichens - 30 Days Wild - Lecanora crenulata
42. 11b June 2023: Open Farm Sunday at Cappleside Farm, Rathmell SD75 and Pertusaria pertusa - 30 Days Wild
43. 08 June 2023 - Langcliffe Hillside SD8264 - Looking down to Settle - Petractis clausa - 30 Days Wild
44. Lichens of Moffat and Southern Uplands - BLS Spring Field Week 2023 April 2023
45. SD8362 - High Hill Lane near Scaleber Foss - Lichens SD86 - End of year 4 Review of stats after four years recording SD86 -good April 2023
46. First Blue Moor-grass of the year -  & Do my recordings show the distribution of carparks? Hymenelia sp of lichen
47.  Veb 2023 SD86 - 13 - SD8163 - Children's Play area, Settle - Hyperphyscia-adglutinata and Paranectria oropensis on Hornbeam - new records for SD86   11 Feb 2023
48.  1st Day of the month Climate Walk: Cliostemum griffithii, Peltigera praetextat and Dawyck Lichen Safari book   1 Dec 2022
49. Increase in Peltigera hymenina at Low Bentham Churchyard  Nov 2022
50. Trapelia placodioides at Giggleswick Church wall    Sept 2022
51. Ochrolechia androgyna and Ochrolechia tartarea on Rathmell Common   1 Sept 2022
52. What do we find at Hampton and Puttenham Common, Surrey, with the British Lichen Society?  20  August 2022
53. Settle Eco-Explorers 2022 at Lower Winskill - including Lichen and Wildflower Walk   17 Aug 2022 
54. "Lichens for all trip" at Settle - SD8064 -Craven Bank - with AP, Sk, LK.- Part 1 on Gritstone 6 Aug 2022 Saw 10 new species for me and my hectad. this day 
55. Last part includes some lichens at Millport, Cumbrae 24 June 2022 
56. More at Embsay churchyard June 2022 
57. Lichen Walk north of Winskill Stones June 2022
58. 30 Days Wild 1a. Winskill Stones including Lichens  June 2022
59. Helbeck Wood SSSi- Lichens, Bluebells and much more with Cumbria Lichens and Bryophytes group    20 May 2022
60. YNU Mosses Walk from Rawthey Bridge - VC65  (on boundary with Cumbria) -includes lichens at the end 8 May

61. Lichens at Embsay Churchyard, N Yorks: Beginners workshop: 11 May 2022

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63. SD86 - Three year review - 36-SD8366 12 March 2022

64. This post has two main aims: 
65. 1. A three year marker in my lichen survey of SD86
66. 2. Showing some lichen pictures that I need answers for. 
67. Ramalina fraxinea near Catrigg Foss seen when Nordic Walking - 12 March
68. SD86 - 25 - SD8265a - Langcliffe North - Ramalina fraxinea Dec 2021
69. Kirkstone Pass Lichens Sept 2021
70. SD86 - 23 - SD8216a -Settle Market - east - Trapelia coarctata 28 May 2021
71. SD86 - 17 - SD8167- Lecanora rupicola - Stainforth NW - Big white lichen - on exposed faces on ACID ROCK  4 April 2021
    
72. SD86 - 19 - SD8169a Xanthoria calcicola- Helwith Bridge 7 March 2021
    
73. SD86 - 42 - SD8462a -Black Gill - Xanthoria ucrainica:  1 March 2021
    
74. Lichens of Low Bentham Churchyard - SD644692
75. Chapel le Dale - Peltigera horizontalis and Peltigera praetextata  31 Dec 2020 
76. SD86 - 20 - SD8260 - Long Preston Moor - Gritstone wall, wooden gate and willow tree lichens  Happy New Year 30 Dec 2020
77. Settle Wildflowers Day 102: Langcliffe Churchyard Lichens and Wildflowers on Christmas Eve - SD86 - 35  24 Dec.. well actually posted a bit later.
78. SD86 01b SD8061 - Rathmell - North - Drought 20 May 2020 
79. May Beck near Whitby - Lichens with the BLS - March 2020 at Cober Hill, Cloughton  March 2020
    
80. Lichens at Arniston House BLS 2020
81. Settle's Top Ten Lichens 1
82. Caloplaca flavescens 
83. SD86 -09 - SD8069 - Dry Rigg Quarry - Helwith Bridge
84. SD86 - 08 - SD8068 - Smearsett Copy - Swarth Moor South 
85. SD86 -07 - SD8067 - Smearsett Scar - Path to Feizor - cltic Walls - Hidden Valley and more limestone platea
86. SD86 -06 - SD8066 - Limestone pasture plateau twixt Giggleswick Scar and Little Stainforth -The Pennine Journey Path
87. SD86 - 05a - SD8065 - Huntworth Common
88. SD86 - 04 - SD8064 - Above Giggleswick School Chapel - Craven Bank Lane Lichens
89. SD86 - 03 - SD8063 - Lichens North of Giggleswick Station, along the bypass to Close House
90. SD86 - 02a - SD8062 - Lichens South of Giggleswick Station
91. SD86 - 01 - SD8061 - Rathmell - North - Floods - Lichens
92. SD86 - 00 - SD8060 - Rathmell - Lichens Rule!
93. Malham Car Park Lichens: Amazing change in 10 years
94. Lichens at Black Hill Capon Hall & then Victoria Cave 25 Feb
95. Painshill Lichens with BLS (afternoon) 27 Jan 2019
96. Painshill Lichens with BLS (morning) 27 Jan 2019
97.  #LichenJanuary  Jan 2019
98. Nosterfield Quarry, N Yorks, Fungi and Lichens 13 Oct 2019
99. Field Skills Training Day at St Chads - Lichens - Insects - and more - by YNU - for Leeds University MSc  Sept 2018
100. 30 Days Wild - Day 4 - Settle - Castleberg Rock: 4 June 2018
101. Parmelina pastillifera 23 Dec 2017
102. NWNU Mosses & Lichens Walk from Penyghent Gill to Slit Cave & Snorkel Cave Nov 2017
103.  Lichens at Lofthouse - Report of the Moorland Festival Workshop  8 Oct 2017 
     
104. Provisional Programme: for Nidderdale Moorland Festival Lichens Workshop 8 October
105. Lichens at Lofthouse - Workshop and walk for absolute beginners -Exploratory Day Oct 2017
106. Lecanora dispersa  24 May 2017- 
107. Globe Flower/Poppy Wood 2 April 2017
108. Fountains Fell (26 March)
109. Lichens of Silurian Greywacke, Stainforth (March 2017)
     
110. Aspicilia calcarea (Dec 2016)
111. Opegrapha gyrocarpa (11 Sept 2016)
112. Lecanora soralifera 
     
113. Psilolechia lucida
114. Porpidia tuberculosa
115. Lepraria incana - Dust Lichen 
116. Physcia tenella
117. Lecanora gangaleoides
118. Xanthoria parietina
119. Squamarina cartilaginea
120. Acrocordia conoidea
121. Caloplaca flavovirescens
122. Arthonia radiata
123. Lichens at Wallington House, North.d with BLS 21 Jan 16
124. British Lichen Society AGM at Newcastle. 21 Jan 2016
125. Beginners Workshop: Top Twenty Lichens of Horton in
126. Ribblesdale Churchyard (Now long past)
127. Aye Gill Pike - CCG-VC65 Bot.Surveying 20 Aug 2015
128. Upcoming Lichens at Ingleton Workshop on 20 June 2015
129. Upcoming Beginners Lichens at Horton-in-Ribblesdale workshop on 28 March 2015
130. Lichens of Horton-in-Ribblesdale Churchyard with Mothers Union  16 Oct 2014
131. Lichens at Wrynose Pass 5 Sept 2014
132. Eycott Hill, Cumbria Bryologists -& Lichens - March 2014
     
133. Lichens of Ingleton Churchyard:  Parts 1 - 7  
134. Longridge Fell -  NWNU - Bryophytes and Lichens Section Trip 13 April 2013
     
135. Algae and Lichens for beginners - Malham to Gordale 2012
136. Lichen Workshop at Grassington  July 2012
137. Lichens on location - Booths Supermarket Settle March 2012
138. Ecology near Yate and Stoke Gifford18 March 2012
     
139. Lichens of Malham Tarn House - 2    29 February 2012
     
140. Lichens of Malham Tarn House - 1    29 February 2012
     
141. Lichens of Malham Tarn Fen - with Allan Pentecost 29 February 2012
142. Lichens flourescent in bonfire light  5 Nov 2011
143. Opal Lichens Settle    CCG walk led by myself -  2 April 2011
144. Algae (and Lichens) for Beginners - Malham Walk with Allan Pentecost August 2009
145. Lichens Day at Giggleswick Churchyard with Mark Seaward 14 June 2009