I took a small telescope into the woods to see the birds. It's not working. When I hear a bird, I can't see it. When I see them, they see me and flies away, screeching at me. Probably something like, "Help, the bad guy is staring at me with a glass eye!"
The ornithologist probably has a secret deal with the birds. I don't.
I preferred to shoot the moss as usual.
When I thought I would photograph mosses, I assumed that I would find three species of mosses in the locality where they live. I later found out there were many more, but I assumed I would just identify and photograph all the species and be done with it. That's not true either. I keep finding more species. This is Homalia trichomanoides. It literally forms a fur coat you want to bury your face in. I did that, too.
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Moss love concrete. And today on the way to a supervision meeting I couldn't resist taking pictures of moss covered with snow. It's great to go to meetings with so much reserve that I can stop and admire the bits of nature in the city.
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Grimmia pulvinata This moss forms little pillows, that's what it's called in my language. But in the macro photos you can see its strange reproductive parts, which look like translucent green melons. Even now in winter they are beautiful, but these melons are actually only one millimeter. They are a much kind of moss, but only this one has melons 
. You see the white hairs typical of this species.
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Moss photographed on a cold winter's day, but the shells that will spread the spores are already. When the warmth comes, it will be time to breed.
Brachytheciastrum velutinum
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Helmet-fungi grow even in winter. But I walked through a piece of forest before I found them on a lying tree trunk, growing out of the moss. They're only a few millimeters long, and this species is a pretty purple color. In a shaded forest, in winter, I wouldn't have taken a photo without the low sun between the trees.
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