What’s in your garden.

[john.r.davies]

Young magpies around here - look the same as adults by no tail!  And beg food from parents.

 

[john.r.davies]

Last night, I noticed three patches of white on my grass lawn.  I thought they were flowers, but looking more closely, they were creamy-white blobs, all over the grass and clover stems.   This morning, the blobs have 'melted', into what looks like spilt clotted cream:

Can anyone suggest what this is?     Snail/slug eggs?

John

[RogerH]

Could it be cat/fox vomit.

 

Roger

[john.r.davies]

Yes, Roger, you might easily say that from this morning's pic, but last night this was composed of many individual pearls along the grass blades, that have now 'melted' together.

[RobH]

Slime mould?

https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/slime-moulds-on-lawns

"Fuligo septica: Irregular yellowish cushions (this has the common name of dog vomit fungus)"

 

 

 

Edited July 23, 2023 by RobH

[john.r.davies]

Brilliant, Rob, that is exactly what they looked like originally, except white.

Roger wasn't far wrong - another species that  appears on lawns is called "dog sick slime mould"!  https://thelawnman.co.uk/dog-sick-slime-mould-mucilago-crustacea/

 

[Kiwifrog]

Behind our shutters we have several bat colonies and every year we have wag tails that nest on the front veranda on top of a wall. They had 5 chicks this year but unfortunately two were kicked out/fell out of the nest and died