What is it?

[Harvestman]

What about these? Easy if you look them up.

 

[Bushwhacker]

What about these? Easy if you look them up.

I saw some of these the other day whilst sat in a bird hide at a reservoir.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Gadwall ducks.

 

[Harvestman]

Good grief! That was a total guess.

I've never even seen a greater crapeverywhere nest before.

 

[Niels]

Trololololol


Naamloos by Sami knives, on Flickr

 

[Harvestman]

Baffled by Niels now. Looks like a cow's tongue, but it isn't. Maybe part of an orchid?

Here's my latest contribution

 

[Niels]

Baffled by Niels now. Looks like a cow's tongue, but it isn't. Maybe part of an orchid?

Here's my latest contribution

Seaweed from a pond? I don't know any name of it. Orchid is close, but not quite. Keep guessing!

 

[Harvestman]

No, not a seaweed.

Orchid is close, huh? Okaaaay....

 

[Harvestman]

Red dead nettle?

 

[Niels]

Vomit from your canine? Bear snot? Frog eggs??

 

[Niels]

Red dead nettle?

Yes! correct.


2013-04-15 15.32.28 by Sami knives, on Flickr

 

[Harvestman]

Vomit from your canine? Bear snot? Frog eggs??

Actaully, seaweed was your closest guess so far, although it isn't a seaweed or any sort of marine organism.

 

[Harvestman]

Yes! correct.


2013-04-15 15.32.28 by Sami knives, on Flickr

Yaay! I win again!

This is going to make me even more unbearably smug than I was already. Don't say I didn't warn you.

 

[Niels]

Yaay! I win again!

This is going to make me even more unbearably smug than I was already. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Don't you worry, I'll come up with a harder one:evilangel:
In the meantime, yours is really doing my head in...

 

[Harvestman]

It occurs on land, but usually only after rain.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Is it one of those slime mold thingies ? ..............it has a more common name but I can't remember it.


EDIT.......Nostoc ?

 

[Harvestman]

No, it isn't a slime mold. Not fungal at all. More algal, like Niels' seaweed guess.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

So it isn't a Nostoc then ( cyanobacteria) ?

 

[Harvestman]

Yes, it is a Nostoc. Cyanobacteria/Blue green alga -damned things don't fall into nice neat categories.

 

[Bushwhacker]

Good luck on this one!