I am still curious about what is going to change now that we have Bradford Pennine Gateway Nature Reserve. Walker Wood, Midgeley Wood and Baildon Bank are part of the nature reserve and I think it is this that has got me visiting the places a lot more than I used to. Walking through them has also encouraged my interest in fungi. Unfortunately I am finding the task of identifying fungi almost impossible. It is even worse than identifying insects. With insects there seem to be features that can put you in the right area and you can get closer and closer. With fungi I haven’t found a similar route, it seems to be that you have to examine everything before you can give it an ID. Obviously each feature reduces the number of fungi that it could be but it doesn’t seem to guide you to a particular section of the books.
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Fungi
I don’t know if I just needed to get my eye in, but for a while, in the woods, I didn’t see any fungi. There were quite a few fallen trees but a lot of it looked fresh or clean. Once I had moved further in and headed East it seemed to get older and fungi started to show themselves. It got a lot more interesting by the time I had got behind Baildon Glen Primary School and Thompson Lane Allotments it was much more interesting.
Here I have posted less than half of the photos that I took. Many of them were to help me to identify the fungi. E.g. a photo of the way the gills of the Brown Roll-rim could be scraped off the cap, or a close view of the gills of the Rosy Bonnet and the brown edging to the gills of the Velvet Shield, or the green insides of the Puffball, etc.
I have left the photos in the order in which they were taken. One of the cute things to spot was what I assume to be a moss covered tree stump where a squirrel liked to eat Acorns. Also quite a few Oak leaves were covered in Spangle Galls as I had seen further along at Baildon bank.
The header image is of tiny Mycena (?) mushrooms growing on a fallen tree. The same fungi are shown in the gallery but with the filligree remains of a Sycamore helicopter samara next to them to show how tiny they are.
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