#Hawthorn Berries

[mushroomgay]

I've been slowly building up small stores of wild preserved food over the last year to use through the winter - I'm going to try next year to have about 10% of my food be wild or gardened (I'm moving to a place with a garden!!)! This is a very small target for some people, but we start somewhere :)

This is a delicious meal that I made with sauce from Hawthorn berries. I haven't used them before and was excited to find a new way to preserve vitamin c for throughout the winter. It was delicious! As I was making it, I noticed it tasted a lot like hoisin sauce, so I decided to fry up some oyster mushrooms with the sauce and make a sort of faux vegan hoisin duck pancake with cucumber and spring onions and chilli oil (in this case with gluten free wraps so my husband can eat it too). It was so good!! I'm definitely going to invest a lot of time in harvesting more hawthorn berries next autumn.

[blackcrowing]

Authentic Irish Foods for Lughnasadh

🫐 Berries in Season

Bilberries

Blackberries

Hawthorn berries

Wild Strawberries

Rowan Berries

🌾 Wheats Grown by Iron Age Irish

Naked Wheat

Emmer

Spelt

Barely

🐟 Fish in Season

Brown Trout

Sea Trout

Atlantic Salmon

🌿Native Culinary Plants growing in Ireland at this time of year

Chickweed

Wild Thyme

Wild Asparagus

Watercress

Red Clover

Sea Beet

Sea Kale

Ground Ivy

🐂 A ritualistic sacrifice of a bull and then eating of that bull is described as a part of festival events - it is possible that excessive bulls would be culled at this time

My Kofi

[dansnaturepictures]

Nine of my favourite flora and fauna photos I took in September 2024 and month summary

The photos are of; Red Deer at Bushy Park, Common Seal on the Beaulieu River, young Coot at Bushy Park, Barn Owl in a flying display at the Hawk Conservancy Trust, Clouded Yellow at Milford on Sea, Lesser Yellow Underwing moth at home, Ruddy Darter on Brownsea Island, Common Lizard at Thursley and hawthorn berries with a ladybird on.

Some of my most magical wild moments of a mesmerising September were watching mammals; immersive views of Common Seals and Grey Seals, enchanting Red Squirrels and ravishing Red, Roe, Fallow and Sika Deers bringing glorious late summer/autumn feelings of splendour. Grey Squirrel, Rabbit and Brown Rat provided some nice moments too.

It was a marvellous month of avian movement with many of my top birds of a fine birding moth enjoyed on migration in and out including Ospreys, Hobby, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Curlew Sandpiper, Brent Geese, Pintail, Wigeon, Wryneck, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, a rare for Lakeside Tree Pipit seen on my patch, a Chiffchaff in the garden and unusually Sand Martin at Bushy Park and epic scenes of many House Martins and a few Swallows moving through places. Other highlights this month included incredible views of majestic White-tailed Eagles twice at Newtown and Poole Harbours, Marsh Harriers, Sparrowhawks including one coming into the garden, Kestrel, Sandwich Terns, Shag, Curlews, Common Gulls, Mediterranean Gull, Egyptian Geese, Gadwall, Teal, Shoveler, Starlings, Ring-necked Parakeet, Grey Heron, Greenshanks, Sanderlings, Turnstone, Ringed Plover, Snipe, Great White Egret, Cattle Egrets, Little Egrets, captivating views of Spoonbills in Poole Harbour, Little Grebes, Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail, Rock Pipit, Dartford Warbler, Cetti's Warbler heard and Kingfisher. Cormorant, Stonechat, Jay, Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker and lots of nice views of Great Crested Grebes including the chicks, Moorhens and Coot were other highlights at Lakeside. It was great to spend a day spellbound by birds of prey and others on an amazing day at the wonderful Hawk Conservancy during the super week off of day trips with so many phenomenal places visited and much wildlife seen.

Butterflies did quieten down this month for me but I saw some fantastic ones, headlined by adding the excellent Clouded Yellow to my year list a great final piece of the jigsaw to another memorable butterfly year for me. I also really enjoyed seeing Small Coppers at Bushy Park and Southbourne, Meadow Brown, Small Heath, Speckled Wood especially seen well at Lakeside, Common Blue, female Adonis Blue at Old Winchester Hill, Green-veined White, numerous Small Whites and Large Whites especially on sunny days, beautiful Painted Ladies, Red Admirals and Peacock. I enjoyed seeing a fair few moths this month too including dashing Willow Beauty, Garden Carpet, L-album Wainscot, Light Brown Apple moth, sumptuous Lesser Yellow Underwings, pretty Lunar Underwing, Square-spot Rustic and Silver Y and Vestal in the day. Dragonflies and damselflies took a large amount of the limelight again as they dazzled at this well lit and beautiful time of year, Brown Hawker, thrilling Black Darter, Common Darter and Ruddy Darter views, Keeled Skimmer on Brownsea Island, resplendent Migrant Hawker, gigantic and eyecatching Southern Hawker and exquisite Emerald Damselfly were special to see.

It was captivating to watch Common Lizards at Thursley Common and a Common Frog on a wet New Forest walk at Puttles Bridge. Symbolising the shift to autumn I saw loads of craneflies this month which was memorable. I also enjoyed seeing Long-winged Conehead, Common Green Lacewing, hoverflies, bees, wasp, hornet, enigmatic Devil’s coach horse beetle and ground beetle at Thursley, ladybird, Forest Bug, Dock bug, and Grey Silverfish and spiders at home.

Key flower/plant sightings this month included my first ever skullcap at Bushy Park, lots of great devil’s-bit scabious one of my favourites, harebell, common toadflax, restharrow, marjoram, wild basil, water mint, great willowherb, sundew, bog asphodel, sea rocket, wild radish, seaside daisies, sand spurrey, yellow-horned poppy, sea kale, rock samphire, mercury yarrow, wild carrot, pineappleweed, mignonette, hedgerow crane’s-bill, red clover, white clover, comfrey, a strong month for yellow with ragwort, fleabane, tormentil, sowthistle, oxtongue and autumn hawkbit, montbretia, self-heal, gorse, ivy, plantain, black medick and bell and common heather painting the landscape a splendid purple. There was a lot of nice fruit to see including apples, dogwood berries, guelder rose berries, rowan berries and fine ruby hawthorn berries. Sunflower, pretty fuchsia, buddleia, roses, rose hips, firethorn berries and other colourful plants were nice to see at home this month.

[morethansalad]

Hawthorn Berry Juice / 红果捞 (Vegan)

[sagenatural]

2023 tea via my "see results" Tumblr votes.

[eatfreeordie]

We don't have a lot of hawthorns around me in md, but we have some good ones (and a lot of tasteless one) in oh!

[theoriginaldancingstar]

literally all we need is plants and life

[aimeeisdead]

aa textposts bc. very happy emoji

like. so many of these r probably ooc. however i do not care

[dessertbird]

Pigeon acrobatics!

Young Woodpigeon eating hawthorn berries, back garden.

[noseysilverfox]

October 2024

Caucasian hawthorn (lat. Crataegus caucasica). A shrub or small tree growing up to 2-3 meters. Sometimes, it can grow up to 7 meters. The berries are not ripe yet, as they should turn black in this species.

Hawthorn isn't only a medicinal plant. Birds in winter are very fond of eating these fruits, picked up by frost, softened, and containing a lot of vitamins🐦‍⬛

Боярышник кавказский (лат. Crataegus caucasica). Кустарник или небольшое дерево, вырастающее до 2-3 метров. Иногда может вырасти до 7 метров. Ягоды ещё не созрели, так как у данного вида они должны почернеть.

Боярышник не только лекарственное растение. Птицы зимой очень любят поедать эти плоды, прихваченные морозом, размягчённые, и содержащие массу витаминов🐦‍⬛

[riverwindphotography]

Frosty haws on my Dad's hawthorne tree <3

(c) riverwindphotography, December 2023

[thewormsdontstop]

The Major Arcana

Cups | Swords | Pentacles | Wands

links to all the individual posts under the cut

0: The Fool

1: The Magician

2: The High Priestess

3 and 4: The Empress and the Emperor

5: The Hierophant

6: The Lovers

7: The Chariot

8: Strength

9: The Hermit

10: The Wheel of Fortune

11: Justice

12: The Hanged Man

13: Death

14: Temperance

15: The Devil

16: The Tower

17: The Star

18: The Moon

19: The Sun

20: Judgement

21: The World

[vanillqvan]

ace attorney characters as memes & tumblr posts #11 💌

[dansnaturepictures]

03/09/2024-Autumnal looking leaves, great willowherb, bindweed and view on walks at Lakeside Country Park

Jay, Jackdaw, Magpie, Green Woodpecker and Great Spotted Woodpecker heard, Chiffchaff and Robin heard, Great Crested Grebe, the Lesser Black-backed/Herring Gull, Moorhen, Great Crested Grebes, Long hoverfly on viper's-bugloss, oxeye daisy, oxtongue, red bartsia, hemp agrimony, black medick, bird's-foot trefoil, buttercup, white clover and fascinating fruits hawthorn berries, blackthorn sloes and rose hips with rose in flower and mossy rose gall enjoyed too were other highlights. Sunflower, buddleia and lots of House Sparrows and Starlings rushing into the garden were good to see today at home.

[morethansalad]

Bing Tanghulu Candied Hawthorn Stick / 冰糖葫蘆 (Vegan)

[sagenatural]

The tea created from just Tumblr's votes. (10-459-A)