About half-way along leg 2 is a Willow grove that stands in water. Today I took my wellingtons.
Rain most of the day.
This is a scene-setting shot, showing the Willow trunks covered in mosses and lichens. The Willows make a patch about 10m. wide by 30m. deep.
Some of the branches look more like maps with the various lichens claiming their own patches of the branch. It's difficult to say if any of the actual bark is visible, but those purple patches look to be original. Most recognisable here are Lecanora chlarotera (pale green background) and Lecidella elaeochroma (pinkish in this image).
And this is a shot of Lecanora chlarotera with some sort of algal growth on the surface.
Two larger specimens. Flavoparmelia caperata on the left and Hypogymnia physodes on the right.
An alga - Trentepohlia sp. on the left and last year's shoot of Water Horsetail - Equisetum fluviatile - on the right.
