Promoter of wild food, fungi & local produce. Foraging courses in Hampshire, England

Hampshire, England
Joined August 2011
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These Bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus) clearly don’t know what month it is, or don’t read ‘the books’. Flowers April-June. 🤔 Surrey pine woodland, this week. #WildflowerHour @wildflower_hour
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Please don't leave Halloween pumpkins to rot in your garden, or dump them in the countryside. Eating pumpkins can make hedgehogs, birds and other animals poorly. Instead, dispose of pumpkins in a covered compost bin or council food waste bin. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/feat…
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All sorts of fungi making the most of the moist decomposition out in the woods. A cut-back of gorse appears to suit the fly agaric very well!
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Replying to @mattwridley
What a load of nonsense!😂 Quite inventive! Are you financed by fox hunters or farmers, by any chance? Please stop spreading this misinformation. It does no one any good and just encourages hedgehog lovers to hate and be afraid of badgers. Badgers and hedgehogs have lived peaceably together side by side for 125,000 years. The badgers didn't suddenly decide to go on a hedgehog murdering spree, you know.🙄 They are incredibly tolerant of each other. Their diets are similar so they compete for food, but without aggression. This iniquitous rumour about badgers is spread by the deviants who enjoy torturing and killing animals, hoping to get hedgehog lovers to validate their depravity. Badgers are NOT hunters, you don't need a degree in zoology to know that, you only have to look at their body shape, their eye position, and sweet lumbering gait.😁 They are foragers, and 80% of their diet is earthworms. Of course any animal dying of starvation will act unnaturally, if that's the only way to survive. Humans have been know to eat each other, in extremis. So a starving badger may attempt predating a hedgehog, or any other animal, if it's risk that or death. That doesn't mean anything. Hedgehogs are no more part of badger's natural diet as mud is to a starving third world child. And as for the 'hollowed-out skins' - dear me, this is so ignorant. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of badger dentition knows this is impossible, utter nonsense. These empty skins are sadly all what's left of dead hedgehog, whose cause of death is usually parasite invasion or starvation, after birds - corvids mainly - have finished scavenging the corpse. See all those little dimples? They are peck marks. And badgers don't have beaks.😊
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Nature Twitter is a shining beacon of light It stands tall, resolute as lights are going out all over the world The answer is not to dim the light, it is to shine ever brighter, so people know where the good is
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My favourite oak fact: The leaves of an oak tree get successively larger the further down you go This allows all leaves access to sunlight, and protect the tree from excessive wind Oak trees know
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Britain had about 30 million hedgehogs in the 1950s; we've got under 875,000 today. The population has dropped by about 97%. Shocking.
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It’s going to be a wet day today!
⚠️ Yellow weather warning issued ⚠️ Storm Boelo will bring the risk of heavy rain across Wales and parts of western and southern England Saturday 1100 - 2300 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
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#Euston station at 1:17pm. #StormAusten
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Large waves have caused a further collapse on the old Brighton Pier. Watch has a fairly large chunk collapses into the sea.
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Tree down completely blocking my road in Southampton #StormAusten
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Wrinkled Peach mushroom this morning.
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Found my first ever Dog Stinkhorn this afternoon. Mutinus caninus. I was so chuffed.
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A tiny fungi today...possible Pleated Inkcap but that's just a guess due to how small it was. I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what it was growing on 😉
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Finally some Fungi from Ceredigion today. Blackening Waxcap, Saffron Nilkcap & Plums & Custard, I think. #britishfungi @BritMycolSoc
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A mesmerising satellite imagery of Storm Austen today as it approaches the UK 🌀
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Nice walk today out in the woods, especially for the second half of October, with temps around 16C. The calm before the storm!
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Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) of the day down in Hampshire. They are, like a lot of fungi, late this year and most are still relatively immature.
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Penny Buns (Boletus edulis) of the day. Lots out and hard to pick the best, so these are just 4 examples.
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