Category: Paul’s Blog
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Shipley Glen Fungi on 22 Oct
Having found the previous visit interesting where we looked at fruit, berries and fungi. I decided to go and have another look at fungi in Shipley Glen. I have stuck a photo up as header image and stuck my neck out when I say it is Russet Toughshank, Gymnopus dryophilus Butter Cap, Rhodocollybia butyracea. I…
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5 Oct in Buck Wood
This is one of several recent visits to the lower parts of Buck Wood next to the river, looking at Fungi, and is one of the reasons for joining the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group. I hope to get better at identifying what I am looking at, (how many times have I said that?) if only to…
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21 Oct. Bracken Hall Countryside Centre Walk
Today was one of John Dallas’s walks from Bracken Hall Countryside Centre. The idea was to keep an eye out for fungi, fruit, nuts, and berries! John guided us around the things that could feed us with his incredible in-depth knowledge, but in line with my recent sign-up to the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group I was…
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Riverside Wildflower Meadow. July 2025
Catching up with photos of July Butterflies, Common Blue and Small Copper, on the Wildflower Meadow next to Denso Marston Nature Reserve
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October Fungi at Bracken Hall Green
This visit to Bracken Hall Green and Shipley Glen was different to my usual trips in that I didn’t take my long lens or general lens with me. I only carried my macro lens with ring flash clipped to the front of it. This meant that my back didn’t not ache quite as much as…
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Baildon Bank & Midgeley Wood, 8 Sept.
Last Monday I went for a walk along Baildon Bank and Midgeley Wood. My recorded track is shown on the map at the bottom. I was hoping to see Green Woodpeckers. There’s lots of Ant nests but I saw no Green Woodpeckers, not even the yaffle of one, until I was back at my car…
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Autumn Walk at DMNR, Sept 2025
Today was an Autumn Walk by the river Aire at the Denso Marston Nature Reserve led by Steve, the warden. The title was simply Autumn Walk leaving it open to be about anything that was found and for it to be guided by what people wanted to talk about. I got talking to another photographer…
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Grouse on Baildon Moor. 16 Aug 2025.
On 16 Aug I spent some time on Baildon Moor. A lot of the time I was not too far from the Trig Point. As usual you can tap/touch/click on an image to see it in better quality in the carousel gallery with an i for more information. And if you like what you see please click…