Beauty and the beast

So right now it couldn't be raining more but that is a good thing.  Earlier in the week we've had some lovely warm sunny weather and signs of spring have been emerging.  I could plaster a load of photos of lichens on here but I've found that not everyone finds them as interesting as I do strangely.  So I've bunged a couple of ladybirds in to make them more interesting!

During the same survey in Brocks Wood at college, I picked up a leaf from the ground to help me identify the tree.  The leaf was curled up and much to my utter horror I touched something soft...

Gerrrroossssss! I do not know what creature left that little surprise for me but I assume it is a spider's egg?  Fortunately no one was around to hear me shriek and launch it into the woods! I obviously then had to find it again so I could take a picture.  Der.

On another survey this week I found this pretty cool fungus called Yellow Brain Fungus...