Sunday, 27 July 2014

Photos from a walk in Deep Hayes Country Park today

Part of a cattle-grazed pasture with plenty of flowering Betony. 

A Nettle-leaved Bellflower that has survived the pathside strimming (not very sharp due to breeze!). 

A Shaded Broad-bar Moth which is a common species that is generally a night-time flyer though sometimes seen during the day if disturbed. This one was in the pasture where I assume it fed on legumes, such as Bird's-foot trefoil when it was a larva. 

Thursday, 24 July 2014

The fungus season starts.

I've spotted one or two fungi in and around Endon in 2014, but this one may the first of the main fungi finding season. Its a bolete species seen growing at the roadside under a very large Beech tree in Brook Lane, Endon. Slugs have eaten quite a lot of the top of the caps.