All The Other Bits. Part 3; Off About Places

Where to begin? How about here..

Tree!

So many metaphors, so few pixels..

Starting with the ending; I went for a toddle with the Folks for the first time in aaaages.The grey skies you see there missed us, and it was actually quite nice. Like this,

Tree!

See?

:)

We had an amble, the LBD was moving a lot better [you may recall she badly hurt her leg defending the Folks from a pack of loose dogs earlier this year], and we even had a nice coffee and flapjacks break not far from That Place you sometimes see birds beginning with H  :)

Cep

There are few bright white fungi in this country,

and as one is A. virosa, they should all be treated with caution [to say the least]

this one, however, is I think Agaricus urinascens [excellens]

Saffron Milkcap

Bolete Mould [a parastitic fungus]

[on Iodine Bolete]

Suede Bolete

Slate Bolete

Fresh slots,

[I missed the Sikas that made them, unfortunately]

Speckled Wood

Water Mint

Fleabane

Hoary Ragwort

Right then, to my fuming self. I steamed off and sulked decided to relocate to a more civilised and welcoming locale elsewhere in the area, where there was always the outside dim if not laughable chance of one or more of those White Storks flying past.

Picnic tables [so more facilities than either NT site] and an honesty box, which got - as a matter of principle - more than lazy moneygrubbers demanded. 

[I'm stopping now with the ranting. Honest.]

Where did I go? Well, I went here;

There.

Mmmh, ditchy goodness

Fair view

I enjoyed the view and had lunch. I even got the place to myself for a while - shocking given the date and weather - and what did I see? A surprise! Up close, too.

Hornet!

She flew right into a spider's web and proceeded to hang there, munching said spider's lunch!! [Possibly the spider, too, it was hard to tell and I wasn't going to risk disturbing her by getting too close.....]

Om nom nom

Once she'd finished her lunch, the Hornet freed herself from the web with contemptuous ease, spent a couple of minutes cleaning the shreds off, then hummed [Hornets do not buzz] away.

Wowzer.

Chiffchaff

Red Admiral on Rowan berries

 

 There was a fairly large hirundine passage going on, and a Clouded Yellow flew by with a very 'not stopping' air about it, but no sign of storks. Lots of Buzzards up and a couple of Ravens.  The Spitfire also put in a couple of flypasts, but too distant and high to get a decent photo.

Oh well.

After the way things started, it wasn't that bad.

What can you do, eh?

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