Another Wild Shrike Chase

 

Seems to be the way this year is going.. Mutter mutter.

 

So, a plan to take the one day of 'good' [ie. non-seawatching] weather last weekend to go look for even more funguses about Fernworthy was detoured by report of a Great Grey Shrike tarting about Vitifer.

 

I couldn't resist.

 

Cue a day-long chase here, there, and everywhere with not a sniff of the thing.

 

'Someone said someone else said they'd seen it but it flew off' was the closest I got.

 

 

Typical.

 

 

But, I didn't get rained on, I did see a very nice bit of bird behaviour, and I got out up on t' Moor, so not all bad. 

AND I got to run into a few of the Devon Scene for the first time in ages. [Cue socially distanced nattering :D ]

 

 

 

Ooh, what's that?

 

Lump of lichen.

 

And it wasn't even Monday...

 

But anyways, observe;

 

Great Spotted Woodpecker

 

Investigating a nice hole.

 

 

"Kick-ki ki.. ki... ki..."

 

Let's get to the close-ups...

 

Yellow Stagshorn

 

 

Yellow Brain

 

White Milking Bonnet

 

 

Snowy Waxcap

 

Yellowleg Bonnet

 

Panaeolus sp.

 

Matt Knight

 

Very pale Deceiver!

 

 

 Fungi are so considerate. 

Flammulaster granulosus?

Nitrous Bonnet

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