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

Hampshire, England
Joined August 2011
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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#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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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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⚠️ Yellow weather warning issued ⚠️ Wind across parts of Wales and England Friday 1000 – 2100 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
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Storm Austen is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain. ✅ Secure loose items in your garden, ✅ Check drains and gutters are clear ✅ Allow extra time for journeys and check travel updates ✅ Look out for updates from the @metoffice
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Wide angle mushroom photos from this year.
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AT LAST NO 30C IN EUROPE ! After more than 5 exceptional months,today for the first time no official weather station in Europe has recorded 30C+. This doesn't mean we won't see 30C anymore in 2026: Early next week Southern Spain might touch it again. Map:Meteociel
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⚠️ Met Office have updated the yellow weather warning for wind covering #Newforest Travelling conditions could be difficult on Friday. Note amber warning for Cornwall and West Devon.
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The Met Office has named #StormAusten The storm is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain across the UK on Thursday night and Friday The strongest winds will be across the southwest of England and into southern Wales. Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
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