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Mistress Rose
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buzzy
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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: Tue Apr 04, 17 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Mistress Rose wrote: |
Interesting fungus and slime mould. Those are probably among the 'not sure what they are' group for me. Apart from scarlet elf caps, I haven't seen too many fungi recently, apart from the long lived ones like brackets and King Alfred's Cakes.
The birds are really singing strongly now. We had a marsh tit nesting where we cut our first coup, and it spent nearly all its time scolding us.
Found an early purple orchid in flower yesterday and a couple of twayblade with buds in the bottom. |
My experience of, and ability to identify, slime moulds is very limited. I have seen the one in the picture before, but at ground level.
I did once go on a day long course on slime moulds. The highlight of the day was when the course leader, during the field excursion, nudged me, pointed at a yellowish blob on a tree trunk about five yards away and said "That's (long scientific name) new to Britain."
We did look for Early Purple Orchids, but the usual area was much overgrown, and they couldn't be found. Quite a few Common Spotted Orchid rosettes, though.
Henry |
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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 Apr 10, 17 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Today we visited a Forestry Commission woodland. We had hoped to see Adders, but only got as far as Adder sloughs:
This one was in a tangle of bramble etc.. A few feet away was another, which we managed to retrieve (and one of us spent the rest of the walk showing it to (mainly small) children that we passed, with reactions from "Eeeeugggghhh" to "Cool!".)
We also saw several Slow Worms (Anguis fragilis):
This was the last and largest that we saw; the first was a lovely stripey juvenile, and there were a couple of in-betweeners.
We also saw a Palmate Newt, netted from a most unprepossessing pool of water in a muddy ditch.
We saw lots of Red Kites (or it might have been a few Kites on several occasions, but one of us did count six in the air at the same time) and I watched a pair of Buzzards circling high and interacting, though whether this was amicably or aggressively, I couldn't tell.
All in all a good day, especially for one of our mycologists, who had never seen a Slow Worm before.
Henry
PS We also saw Little Brown Mouse, Fox, Owl and Snake, though not, I'm sad to say, Gruffalo, as I've never yet seen one of THOSE.! |
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buzzy
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buzzy
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Mistress Rose
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