My favourite place to run is the woods which I do at weekends as I have a bit more time to go further and its light!! lately I have been really enjoying foraging for all things mushy. I have been taking some pics of my findings and if any fungus enthusiasts know the names that will be superb?
I love being able to travel deep into the woods and see how it changes each week and from season to season.... I love running adventures 💗
Other than that splendid red fly agaric and the bottom right is probably shaggy something or other I don't know... but I do know I love those pictures, and that you took them whilst out on a run.
One if the things I love about running is how we get to experience wildlife up close. I saw deer in Scotland. Wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels here at home and the other day I was out running past a field of maize (stubble) that had been harvested the day before. I had not noticed at least 200 Canada geese in the stubble probably feeding off the maize that had fallen on the ground. I startled them and they all took off at the same time. It was beautiful, loud and amazing - and best of all I experienced it all by myself.
I love the big outdoors!
wow that is so very cool..... On holiday in Crete I saw a lot of goats, sadly they were very nervous of me but I found it amazing how they just trot happily along cliff edges etc!!
Beautiful! I only recognise the Fly Agaric at top left, but I love all of them 😄😄😄
One of my favourite natural world experiences was coming across highland cattle deep in the wood.
Beautiful. Those red Fly Agarics are very ‘other-worldly.’ Nature is fascinating. Last week I ran right into the middle of a large flock of Canada Geese. They all just stared as I ran through the thick of them. I had visions of them mounting a group attack but it was quite uneventful. I think they are quite well fed around here
Some interesting specimens for sure!
I know, can’t wait to find more at the weekend 🍄
Oo - bottom right are Shaggy ink cap and like others I also know Fly Agaric. Great photos ju-ju!🙂🍄
I got poisoned by foraged mushrooms. Apparently I would have been ok but for the glass of wine i had with them They were hallucinogenic 😳. Screaming ab-dabs is what you get 😫. It’s easy to confuse some of them as they’re so alike. Mushroom picking was done at work early on Saturday mornings in the birch woods. The old Polish guys were the experts and they taught the younger guys They had a book and made notes against each variety they found There is a note in there about the wine incident. I was gifted the book 💕🙂. Slippery jacks and puffballs not my faves The wood bluet is common but way lush. I’d swerve Ju-Ju if you’re not 100% sure
I thought about you as I was crashing through the woods yesdy 😃. I wondered if you were. I was having an absolute blast running to Born Slippy. Get it downloaded 💪👍😃
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Oh I love that song, and wow you have certainly had a few mushroom escapades!! I am uber cautious as when I worked as a nurse at St Thomas' ED we used to send the mushroom in question ( that the patient had brought with them having fallen ill) to be identified at the poisons lab at Guys!!
Some give you projectile vomiting I didn’t get that fortunately 🙂
We can get fresh field mushrooms from our local greengrocer. They are fantastic 😋
I love mushrooms- fried in butter on a piece of sourdough toast.... yums
We got chanterelles sometimes if we were lucky. Fab they are. Like buying money from t’shop 😁
I think bottom left might be Clouded Agaric, which is also best left alone.
Yes those things are only good for brownies to dance around 😁
I went on mushroom identification course a while back with the intention of doing some foraging but all I learned was you pretty much have to out with a few old hands and get used the look, touch, feel and smell of the goodies and baddies before flying solo. When you know a bit you do at least know just how similar looking some of the really toxic ones are to the yummy ones. Here in Finland they eat most types (even the ones that are poisonous before being cooked).
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