Category Archives: Lockdown Diary

Ever since I was a small child I have wanted to see the mushrooms that were always depicted in fairy stories, usually with a pixie or two sitting crosslegged on top of one playing a flute or pan pipes. The … Continue reading →

Chambers Wall and the Fisherman’s Carpark there has several hedgerows framing footpaths. When I first discovered it many years ago I dubbed it the ‘hedge of Dreams’ because it turned up so may good birds. Just a few days ago … Continue reading →

I thought I had already blogged about all the fungi species I’ve seen… then I came across a couple of mis-filed photos. One is from our Foray at Stodmarsh a couple of weeks ago, where cleared paths and ditches reveal … Continue reading →

…as promised the second part of our birding outing that was better for fungi. What is, to me, most astonishing, is that a week before we had walked around The Elms looking for fungi and found none at all. How … Continue reading →

Serendipity is the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. As I hinted in yesterday’s post, our birding turned out to be even better for fungi… finding something we weren’t looking for. When looking … Continue reading →

I tend not to go birding on Sundays as the parks and reserves we visit tend to be busiest then, with people whose weekdays are in bondage to The Man! But, it’s Global Birding Weekend and we wanted to participate. … Continue reading →

While I am enjoying seeking out new fungi, identifying them continues to be something of a nightmare. I am using an on-line ‘identifyer’ as my first port of call but am struck, as I research their suggestions, by just how … Continue reading →

To ‘dip’, or ‘dip out’ is a twitcher’s term for missing seeing a ‘good’ (rare) bird. Today, I dipped out! We had planned a day out today – Dungeness, a rarity magnet and great place to visit. However, someone told … Continue reading →

The forecast rain held off, but its decidedly chilly with a light breeze from the frozen north. Looking around the garden I’m surprised to see that some things have put on a spurt of growth despite the lowering temperature. I … Continue reading →

Some more local foraging along hedgerow and in the park produced a few new fungi and several we have seen already. It was interesting in the park, to see what had become of a fungi which was in a magnificent … Continue reading →