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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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dpack
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 17 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Instead of the warm weather and sunshine, that yesterday's forecasts suggested were coming our way, we had grey skies, thick mist and chilly winds - but we still went for our walk!
We heard Chiff-chaffs, a Blackcap, a Cetti's Warbler, Hedge Sparrows, and saw assorted ducks and a few Canada Geese looming through the grey. There were also quite a few Snipe, and we had good, if distant, views of an Avocet. Some swore there were two, but I only saw one.
There weren't many different fungi, but quite a few of these:
This is (I'm told!) the Yellow Fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans) which was actually rather more yellow than it appears. They are very yellow when young, but become paler as they grow.
By the way, I think the camera decided that the drops of water on the grasses were more interesting that the fungus.
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 42207 Location: North Devon
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45516 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
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Woo
Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Posts: 787 Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 17 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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This week we went to a piece of 'ancient' woodland. We heard Chaff-chaffs, Willow Warblers, Song Thrushes, Marsh and Cole (or Coal) Tits. There was distant Buzzard or two, and some of us saw a Sparrowhawk. There were lots of Oxlips, and a few False Oxlips, and lots of Wood Anemones and Lesser Celandines.
There were a few fungi, including these:
Galerina marginata, which is called the Funeral Bell, apparently because if you eat them, you die!
Also, about twenty feet up a dead tree, was this:
the aethalial or spore producing stage of the slime mould Enteridium lycoperdon, known (apparently) as the False Puffball.
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45516 Location: yes
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