Tuesday 8 March

 Velvet Shank - Flammulina velutipes

 Velvet Shank - Flammulina velutipes

Velvet Shank - Flammulina velutipes

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Saturday 14 March

Cool morning

 Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa flower buds

 Common Polypody - Polypodium vulgare

 Common Polypody - Polypodium vulgare Spores

Close up of the tiny female Hazel flower - Corylus avellana

 Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

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Thursday 8 January

Good Day even if a little damp

 Rain overnight and it has washed a lot of silt into the river.

 Hairy Curtain Crust - Stereum hirsutum this is one of the most common fungi that I seem to find.

It crops up on most of the fallen trees in the valley. Hairy Curtain Crust - Stereum hirsutum

Back of Top Lodge, the muddy looking part has been dredged it was once the Mill Race Channel

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Sunday 14 December

On arriving at the Big Lodge could not help but notice the two white roses, what was strange to us was the lock, fortunately Steve the ranger was about and told us it was a love lock, we had never heard of them but they have walls of them in some places.

Love Lock

I learned today that Yellow Brain - Tremella mesenterica also needs a host and it's not the oak tree it's growing on it's the purple crust fungi - Peniophora it is on the photo above, so the yellow brain is a parasite on a parasite.

Yellow Brain - Tremella mesenterica

Crinkle Crust - Phlebia radiata in it's early stages

Two views of the Big Lodge

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Monday 1 December

December already how did that happen, time certainly flies when your enjoying yourself.

 Big lodge

3rd lot of Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae that we have found

 River Yarrow from Sunny Brow Bridge

 Bridge from Sunny Brow

 Our Swan Family with the youngster leading

Looking toward Sunny Brow from the Top Lodge

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Saturday 29 November

Yet again another good day

Tiny Fungi at the Slippery Log

 Winter Jasmine - Jasminum nudiflorum woven into the wreath at the carving

Winter Jasmine - Jasminum nudiflorum it's prolific and easy to propagate, I wonder why we don't see more of it as it brightens the winter months, it could be the lack of scent - certainly one for the garden.

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Tuesday 25 November

We ventured into Burgh Wood this morning

We wanted to look at one of the large Beech that toppled a few years ago,

the fungi are now making themselves at home

 As you can see it is still a sturdy piece of wood

 The Rangers made it as safe as possible 

 Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea growing under the old trunk these will flower next year

 These fungi are just a few that are on the Beech

This fallen Beech looks like it will be here for a long time providing shelter and being host to many fungi, insects, plants and animals.

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Friday 21 November

The two fungi photos on the same log, which is Sycamore, I am useless on fungi and not had them ID.

 A new one for me, I would have thought this a Mallard but it is a female Shoveler Duck, slightly smaller than the mallard.

It was very busy and never stopped - it was sifting the water all the time

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Saturday 15 November

A good morning and we wandered all over.

All the fungi has been ID by my expert friends - they will say enthusiastic amateurs, well they are good.

 I can't say I have seen this before so another first, there was only one among the roots of a Sycamore Bulbous Honey Fungus - Armillaria gallica

The path to Lowes Tenement Farm

 Photographer setting up for a long wait - hoping for a shot of the trout or salmon jumping.

On Silver Birch, Glistening Inkcap - Coprinellus micaceus

 Sulphur Tuft - Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare

 Tansy - Tanacetum vulgare

 

It was only the other day I found out the name of the cottage that once stood here, I am stood on what was the fire/oven looking out toward the weir, it was called Whet Stone Cottage, demolished in the 50/60s

Flowering again Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

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Sunday 9 November

Bright morning

 Big Lodge

 Lots of Tiny Fungi

 Birkacre Rucks Path

 Percy Wood Pigeon - I want some more

and he got some

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