Been keeping my head down and not been out much for the past couple of weeks ... busy planning and making preparations for a big road trip - I'm setting off on Nov 11th and driving the camper down to
Spain. Coming back just before Xmas so its a proper tour and a well earned rest from all this bumming around on nature reserves in Yorkshire!
More info later this week on what I'm aiming to do and some opportunities for you guys to interact if you want.
I reckon a fair chunk of Winter migrants have arrived on my patch lately unseen by me, I even heard there were
Waxwings again in the middle of York last week, but all I've had is a few
Fieldfares over my house and an increase of
Siskins, Goldcrests and
Thrushes at
Askham Bog.... so not many photo opps recently, but a stroll around said Bog last weekend and during a bit of 'down time' revealed some great
fungi in the evening sun and along with some great looking
Guelder Rose berries, a few turning
Oak leaves and the odd
Robin this makes a nice enough little Autumn gallery ....
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| Fungi, Askham Bog |
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| Fungi2, Askham Bog |
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| Guelder Rose berries |
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| Fungi3, Askham Bog |
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| Turning Oak leaves |
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| Robin, Askham Bog |
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| Fungi3, Askham Bog |
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| Guelder Rose berries2, Askham Bog |
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| John Mayer |
No way can I come up with a link between
Fungi and
John Mayer, and he's certainly not in the Autumn of his years just yet, unlike Mr
Jools Holland upon who's show '
Later' one of my favourite guitarists was performing the other night ... check this out if you can access the
BBC Iplayer -
Call me the Breeze - John Mayer
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| Mali Harp |
The whole show is worth a watch ....
highlights were
Graham Parker & The Rumour reformed (wow, never saw that coming!),
Lissie (another fave act of mine) and an amazing
Mali Harp player called
Ballaké Sissoko ...what an instrument!!
Here's the link for the whole show .........
'Later' with Jools Holland
Great images Tim. looking forward to hearing about your road trip, will that be in the Transit also make sure you have your Hi-Vis vest etc if you're going through France, the French police are really hot on it at the moment a friend came back the other week and was pulled over 12 times! Fined 8 times for not having a warning triangle and Hi-Vis vest!! At one service stop (where they were pulled over) there was 15 British vehicles being inspected and fined..reckon they were targetting Brits
ReplyDeleteHi! Fascinating stuff! Do you know what the name of fungi number 1 is?
ReplyDeleteHi Bea and thanks for your comment; I'm no expert but I think this is called Clitocybe gibba or Common Funnel, its a fairly common fungi found in UK woodlands.
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