Nature photos
Frensham Great Pond with Carol – 25 October 2022 Carol came with me to recce a walk for my ambling group starting from Frensham Great Pond car park. The weather was quite variable and it was quite windy and chilly up on the ridge between the two ponds, but the clouds were fascinating. As usual, … Continue reading "Recce @ Frensham"
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Unstead with the girls – October 23, 2022 Sara said she’d seen quite a few interesting fungi around the Unstead Nature Reserve so for my usual Sunday walk with Naima we decided to give it a go. Ingrid came too. There’s not a lot of parking but we found a spot next to the sewage … Continue reading "In search of fungi @ Unstead"
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October 22, 2022 – Elstead Commons with Norman This morning we decided to do a local circular walk as I wanted to show Norman the Dog Stinkhorn (Mutinus caninus) I had seen a few days previously. Alas, I could find no sign of them but in the same area, I noticed some bright twig-like things … Continue reading "Early morning walk around Elstead"
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Winkworth Arboretum with Carol – 21 October 2022 We were supposed to meet the Guildford U3A Natural History Group for a walk but were held up by traffic so we missed them. As we arrived it started to rain anyway so we decided to have a coffee while we waited for the rain to ease. … Continue reading "Autumn @ Winkworth"
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On Wednesday, 19 October 2022, I accompanied Sara on a recce to see if this was a suitable site for a fungal foray. It was a nice sunny day and we did a circular walk via the conifer farm, onto Bagmoor Common, up through Borough Farm, and back onto Rodborough Common. This makes a lovely … Continue reading "Recce @ Rodborough Common"
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October 18, 2022 – Elstead Common with Naima & Les When Naima told me she had found some Dog Stinkhorn (Mutinus caninus) out on the common I wanted her to show me as I have never seen this before. On a clear but misty morning, I joined her and Les on their morning walk so … Continue reading "In search of the Dog Stinkhorn"
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A fungal foray – 16, October @ Swan Barn, Haslemere I had walked around this lovely area previously but never in the autumn so Naima and I set off to see what we could find in the way of fungi. Here are some photos of some of the things we saw. We have tried to … Continue reading "A walk in the woods"
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Witley Common, 14 October 2022 Our location for this month was Witley Common. Quite a number of people had turned up and with so many eyes spotting we didn’t get very far, fast. At the end, a few of us wanted to continue all around a bit further and was rewarded with some lovely russula, … Continue reading "U3A Fascinating Fungi @ Witley"
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Headlands in Shackleford, 10 October 2022 Jackie and David S kindly invited Sara and me to have a walk around their private woodland in Shackleford. They have a lovely garden with quite a large area of woodland attached. As well as a large number of fungi there were interesting features scattered around and a couple … Continue reading "A fungal foray @ Headlands"
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Puttenham Lower Common and Britty Wood, 7 October 2022 This turned into a fungal foray and we didn’t manage to get very far due to the large amount of fungi found. Below is the report from our leader, Sara Shepley. One of the problems with this time of year is that a walk so often … Continue reading "U3A Exploring @ Britty Wood"
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