February

Tree silhouettes and evergreens, low-growing shrubs, with bare ground exposed on tracks.  Lichen spreading up trunks and over branches.  Ladybirds sheltering in bark crevices and leaf-buds.

Trunks and branches of bare trees covered in many different species of lichen, Spetchell 2.

One of the leafy lichens, Xanthoria parietina.

Lichen Physcia species.

 Lichen Lecidella elaeochroma.

Pine Ladybird, Exochomus quadripustulatus, sheltering in Pine species leaf-bud over winter.