Mon 2012-02-06 
Elder whitewash fungus (Hyphodontia sambuci) growing on the trunk of an elder tree (Sambucus nigra). Being just a thin white featureless coating, this is one of the more boring fungi to photograph. Here is a close-up of it growing on some twigs:
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2012-01-28.
Sun 2012-02-05 
A sawfly, probably a Tenthredo sp (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), feeding on hogweed flowers. There are several Tenthredo species like this in the UK (T. notha, T. arcuata, T. brevicornis) but they are difficult to separate on the basis of photographs (see this discussion), so I will not attempt to take the identification any further.
Photo taken in Barnard Castle, County Durham, Uk, on 2010-08-07.
Sat 2012-02-04 
A yellow slime mould growing on a crust fungus, probably Peniophora quercina.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK on 2012-01-28.
Fri 2012-02-03 
A male hoverfly: Leucozona glaucia (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Photos taken Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK, on 2010-08-07.
Thu 2012-02-02 
Fossilized ripples in millstone grit. They were probably formed over 300 million years ago in the shallows of a Carboniferous sea.
Photo taken on the bank of the river Tees near Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK
