{"id":13806,"date":"2025-11-05T17:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13806"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:07:09","slug":"fungi-along-gill-beck-2-nov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/fungi-along-gill-beck-2-nov\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungi Along Gill Beck. 2 Nov."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve managed to go through the photos I took on Sunday, I have many from other days still waiting to be reviewed\/deleted. Hopefully there will be more blog posts to come when I have been through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was a walk along the Gill Beck Valley<\/a>, up stream from the path by Premier Cru Wine Merchant<\/a> in Tong Park Industrial Estate. You can see the route I took on the map at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I left my long lens at home because I was intending to get photos of fungi. The kit was Canon EOS R7, Sigma 105mm f:2.8 macro with EF-RF adapter, and Neewar ring flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are only some of the photos I took, I also took photos of the underside and stem of most of the fungi with the intention of using those to help with getting an ID. Unfortunately I am still no good at using that information to progress to an ID. I will keep attending guided forays and flicking through the books in the hope that I will get better at it. The more I look the more possibilities there seem to be, and things do not seem to narrow down to a family or better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mention it at the end of every posting, and it is a serious request, if anyone has a better idea than my guesses, that you can read against each image, then please let me know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photos are in the order in which I took them except for the two in the chapter below. They were taken 5 minutes after the Purple Jellydisc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried to get a better view of the dense cluster of bracket fungi on a massive felled tree, the 2nd photo, but there were too many big logs in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were several kinds of Bracket Fungi, mostly on felled tree trunks. Many of the trunks had saw cuts part way through them. I assume this is so that they will rot down quicker. One of the saw cuts had Turkeytail, Trametes versicolor<\/em><\/em>, & Candlesnuff, Xylaria hypoxylon<\/em> growing out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have yet to taste any of the fungi I find. Given that Strawberries can make the edges of my tongue swell and Salt & Vinegar crisps can make the skin on my lips peel I will take quite a bit of persuading to taste a wild fungus. Tasting the latex\/milk from a Milkcap helps with ID apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s one I have labelled Shaggy Parasol but I have read that its smell is quite pleasant whereas the one here smelled rank, like something was rotting. No way was I going to taste it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all the Oak leaf litter were lots of Acorns and many of them were sending out radicles and shoots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tiny fungus, with a very long stem, was being identified as a Liberty Cap on one of my attempts, though I have labelled it Bonnet from a previous attempt. In some facebook groups if anyone identifies one as a Liberty Cap people are saying Great<\/em>, and Have Fun<\/em>, and Can I come round?<\/em> Count me out for that trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were quite a few mushy clumps of Honey Fungus, well past their best and one of the trees they were on had missing bark where the Armillaria rhizomorphs could be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was when I wished I had my long lens with me. 800mm would have got me a lot closer than the 105mm macro lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the walk I tend to look up and around hoping to see Deer, Red Kite, Buzzard etc. Where the path goes along by one of the fields I looked up and spotted a pair of pointy ears. Looking through the lens brought them a little closer. I was looking at the back of a head that then turned round and I was being watched. I made sure the flash was turned off and focused the best I could. It was small in the viewfinder and behind grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fox watched for a few seconds and then headed of to the trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The squiggles show where I wandered taking the photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n