If you go down to the woods today.........

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Nice one monkey, what a site! log looks very interesting!

 

Im now thinking there is to be an epic micheal taking video of dean and steve doing the hama and Monkey!

 

should be hillarious

[David Humphries]

If you get a window, YOU need to get up there.

 

Really is a fine site.

 

Didn't appreciate it's potential when I was up there in the winter.

 

Some great finds begging to be discovered methinks.

 

 

Nature on the Map :: Maps

 

 

Friends of Northaw Great Wood | Enhancing woodland in our community

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Back down to pond woods with the wee ones today.

 

Our task was to recreate a nursery rhyme.

Thought about setting a trail ala H&G, or re-enacting the billy goat gruffs , but I didn't really want to get soaked playing the troll

 

So went for the easy option, and built the three little pigs wooden house

 

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[David Humphries]

Part of the above wood is set aside as cricket-bat willow plantation.

 

I suspected I'd find mr ignarius in there, just knocking about

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I will get the classic of this soon!

 

got a few but none of those classic black and white cracked jobs

[David Humphries]

I will get the classic of this soon!

 

got a few but none of those classic black and white cracked jobs

 

 

 

Not sure I know what form you mean.............Oh, what, like this?

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Not sure I know what form you mean.............Oh, what, like this?

 

Theres a few like this i have yet to "put to bed" as it where.

 

Phelinus igniarius

polyporus umbellatus

Inonotus obliquos (the clinker conk)

Fomitpsis pinicola

Inonotus radiatus/nodulosus

Inonotus rheades (on poplars, looks very like hispidus, but has a brown spore mass, which interests me as it fits with a conflict ive found in a significant publication:001_rolleyes:)

 

Oh Ive so many to find the list is as long as my arm!

[David Humphries]

The "list" just keeps on keeping on, don't it.

 

What's your best bag of the year?

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The "list" just keeps on keeping on, don't it.

 

What's your best bag of the year?

 

 

mmmm, hard to say....

 

The chanterelles

the hericiums

the Hoof

helvellas

Suaveolens

 

and that big chicken on beech, that was a key find for me, its not so much about the fungi themselves but in the connections they make in my ecological thinkings, the community or "natural nieghbourhoods" I leanr much about relationships within forest ecology through these sites.

 

these have made this year

Edited October 30, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[David Humphries]

and that big chicken on beech, that was a key find for me, its not so much about the fungi themselves but in the connections they make in my ecological thinkings, the community or "natural nieghbourhoods" I leanr much about relationships within forest ecology through these sites.

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Yeah, I get that.

 

Think that's what makes the discovery of that erinaceus my best by a country mile, especially being on Oak & being a first for Middlesex in a relatively Urban area, (although within a sssi)

 

& the randomness of coming across it, just like when you unearthed that mega stash of dryads on the way to kent.

That was a mind bender for sure.

 

 

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