September 29th – Sunday was a very rainy day. The forecast was bad so just a short run out in the early morning before things worsened.
Found under trees on Brownhills Common, a decent crop of blumels, or shaggy ink caps.
Picked carefully and popped in a cotton bag, I dashed home and had them fried for breakfast, a real autumn treat.
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September 21st – The fungi are appearing thick and fast now, with the damper, cooler weather as is normal for autumn. Spotted near Clayhanger when homeward bound, this shaggy ink cap was a decent, large specimen and had there been more than one, might have been decent eating.
Used to see loads of these when I was a kid, but in recent years they appear to be rarer, which is a shame. They’re nice lightly fried.
November 2nd – A good day to find fungi too. After a patchy couple of weeks, there were loads around – shaggy ink caps, earthballs, puffballs, fly agaric and several sorts of russula. Bothe the west shore and Anglesey Basin were good spots.
I particularly liked the age progression of the shaggy ink caps, showing how their curious name is derived.
September 6th – Well, it’s coming on to autumn, and one of the positives about that is fungi. It looks set to be a bumper year, too – caps, toadstools, polypores, puffballs will all put in appearances in the coming weeks.
These gorgeous shaggy ink caps – edible when young – were growing on Brownhills Common, in a spot where I’ve not seen them before. Pretty much perfect specimens.
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