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Promoter of wild food, fungi & local produce. Foraging courses in Hampshire, England
Hampshire, England
Joined August 2011
iPhone snap of Albireo - a stunning double star. Mind, there’s some debate as to if it’s a true double. Taken through a telescope from my back garden in Southampton #Astrophotography #astronomy #ThePhotoHour #StormHour
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RT @DaveThroup: Autumn coming early in southern France. Trees suffering heat stress after the prolonged heatwave.
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I’ve noticed acorns staring to fall in numbers here in my part of Hampshire and in the New Forest. And it’s only August! Often it’s not like this until late September. Probably drought stress.
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Smartphone snap of Venus (lower) and Jupiter, relatively close together, at just after 4am this morning from my back garden in Southampton.
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RT @TheSnowDreamer: Day number 14 of 30C or more at Heathrow. This is double the already warmer climatological average. 2024 only had 4 d….
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Loads of chicks-of-the-woods around at the moment and with so little rain too. Although this fungus can get moisture from the host tree. This is an urban one on living oak, spotted in town.
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RT @SnowbieWx: This won't last but nearly halfway through the month and August is currently estimated as the 4th warmest on record for the….
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RT @RoostWeather: A number of sites with long(ish) records broke their #August max temp record today, including 31.1C at Rochdale with has….
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RT @DaveThroup: Very dry start to August. With over a third of the month gone, much of England has seen less than a tenth of average rainf….
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RT @Met4CastUK: NEW RECORD: . Bordeaux has just recorded its hottest day on record with a temperature of 41.6°C, this stations data goes ba….
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The second flying ant day that I’ve had in my garden this year. 🐜 about to take flight. I’ve never know two in one summer before.
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Old rose bolete (Imperator rhodopurpureus) - very rare, classed as “endangered” in the UK - with oak, in the New Forest today. First time that I’ve ever seen it. You do come across some unusual fungi in this part of the country!
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I could smell and see light hazy smoke hanging in the air in the New Forest this afternoon and wondered what it was, assuming it maybe a small, local fire, maybe a residential bonfire.
Smoke from heath fire seen from New Forest as firefighters rush to massive blaze
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The magnificent, infrequent to rare, Silky Rosegill (Volvariella bombycina) on old beech, in Hampshire today. The last time I saw one of these was about 7 years ago #FungiFriday
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As well as chicken-of-the-woods there’s lots of stunning looking beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica) on old fallen and living oak. A few from today.
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Lots of chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) around now in my part of Hampshire. Just a few from a short walk today. Beech and oak woodland.
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RT @peacockreports: The Hadley Central England Temperature mean for 1st-5th August is a 1°C below the 1991-2020 average. Yet it's 0.4°C ab….
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