Wed 2012-01-04 
A small yellow stagshorn fungus, probably Calocera cornea, growing on a decaying branch from a deciduous tree
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-11-12.
Tue 2012-01-03 
A yellow stagshorn fungus, probably Calocera viscosa, growing with lichen on the stump of a coniferous tree.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2011-12-13.
Mon 2012-01-02 
A male Phaonia pallida (Diptera: Muscidae). See here for a female.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-06-15.
Sun 2012-01-01 
Over the past few years I have established a tradition of spending the morning of new year's day drawing up a year planner while listening to the New Year's Day Concert from Vienna. I first draft the year planner in pencil and then check it carefully before going over it in ink. Commercially available year planners seem to be either unnecessarily expensive or manifestly unsuitable for purpose (ie: you cannot write on them in pencil), or both.
Sun 2012-01-01 
On the underside of a leaf of a poplar tree: four green capsid bugs, probably Neolygus populi (Hemiptera: Miridae). There are several capsid bugs that look very similar to this but N. populi seems to be the only one associated with poplar trees.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-06-12.
