In the woods again.
30th August 2021
I thought I’d give the local woods one more try for fungi early this morning, there was no sunlight, it was grey skies from the word go, however, it was still a pleasant morning if a little cool. We will have to have some rain before any new fungi really get going so until then I'll wait.
Down under the canopy the light as expected was very subdued with none of the dappled sunlight we had seen over the last few days. As I strolled through the woods even though the light was quite dim something white on the trunk of a tree caught my eye and on closer inspection I could see it was a single Porcelain fungus.
Pure white and glistening just as its name describes. I took a few shots and continued - a good start to the morning I thought.
Scanning the woodland floor there wasn’t much around, the same numerous Blusher fungi as on previous visits.
Ironically these days I now find myself looking down instead of previously looking up - for birds, how things change – that will alter when a bit of migrations starts I’m sure. I could, however, hear the call of a male Bullfinch in the distance and a party of Long Tailed Tits passed overhead calling noisily.
Further on I came across some small red fungi and I could see they were Sickners.
Very nice vivid little mushrooms and they were accompanied by a gathering of Pixie Cup fungi – nice to see together.
I was coming to the really dark part of the woods now and wasn’t expecting much in the gloom, but to my surprise on an old tree stump I could see a beautiful array of Sulphur Tuft mushrooms, these are quite poisonous to eat and should be left alone but still made a lovely photogenic scene. I laid out my weed suppressant and kneeling mat, (previous blog), and set up my little LED light on the mini tripod. This little LED really lifted the scene and I can’t recommend these lights highly enough and along with my Yongnuo twin macro flash I took a few shots of this delightful scene.
In these woods, in what was real gloom, without extra light it would not have been possible to get any sort of shot. It turned out to be a quite productive morning after all, grey clouds or not.
Down under the canopy the light as expected was very subdued with none of the dappled sunlight we had seen over the last few days. As I strolled through the woods even though the light was quite dim something white on the trunk of a tree caught my eye and on closer inspection I could see it was a single Porcelain fungus.
Pure white and glistening just as its name describes. I took a few shots and continued - a good start to the morning I thought.
Scanning the woodland floor there wasn’t much around, the same numerous Blusher fungi as on previous visits.
Ironically these days I now find myself looking down instead of previously looking up - for birds, how things change – that will alter when a bit of migrations starts I’m sure. I could, however, hear the call of a male Bullfinch in the distance and a party of Long Tailed Tits passed overhead calling noisily.
Further on I came across some small red fungi and I could see they were Sickners.
Very nice vivid little mushrooms and they were accompanied by a gathering of Pixie Cup fungi – nice to see together.
I was coming to the really dark part of the woods now and wasn’t expecting much in the gloom, but to my surprise on an old tree stump I could see a beautiful array of Sulphur Tuft mushrooms, these are quite poisonous to eat and should be left alone but still made a lovely photogenic scene. I laid out my weed suppressant and kneeling mat, (previous blog), and set up my little LED light on the mini tripod. This little LED really lifted the scene and I can’t recommend these lights highly enough and along with my Yongnuo twin macro flash I took a few shots of this delightful scene.
In these woods, in what was real gloom, without extra light it would not have been possible to get any sort of shot. It turned out to be a quite productive morning after all, grey clouds or not.