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Jim Blackler
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Luckiest husband. Two rescue hounds. Mainly my own phone photos (some in focus) from dog walks.
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I haven’t posted many slime friends lately! Here are some wolf’s milk slime molds found near Catawba Falls #fungifriends
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This rotting log on a woodland floor is turning bright red in places.

Do any #FungiFriends know if a fungus is responsible?
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A finger of Yellow Club in the rough grass.

🍄 #FungiFriends
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch).

❓how to memorise them all?

🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!

🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A visit to Burghley Park, where woodchip laid down under veteran oaks is currently supporting an impressive range of fungi, including several troops of Redlead Roundhead, the largest and brightest Blue Roundhead I've ever seen, many Stubble Rosegill and a single clump of Maroon Brittlestem

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November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Still a few little points of colour on the South Downs.

#WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This theme reminded me I used to be a Magpie Butler. My boss used to get impatient if I hadn’t served adequate snacks and drinks.

#BirdOfTheDay #StandingOnThings
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Standing on a bin and stepping on the horizon.

#BirdOfTheDay #StandingOnThings
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bumped into these two Waxcaps. Even on an overcast day the colour is so intense.

🍄 #FungiFriends
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Found some Devil’s Fingers. A bit knackered but happy to see one in the wild.

🍄👹 #FungiFriends
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Join me next summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in north Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Near crow, far crow.

#Birds #Hove
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Moss and mushrooms. Maybe Common Stump Brittlestems.

🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The lookout.

🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Things found in the medieval drains of Salisbury, in 1854. (Salisbury Museum)
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A mighty Inkcap towering over the woodland floor.

🍄 #FungiFriends
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Small mushroom, big tree.

🍄 #FungiFriends
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Rare Earth will be back on air soon & in preparation for a programme on Darwin, Wallace & evolution, I found this ace example of evolutionary adaptation. The plant C. argenteum makes seeds that look & smell like dung, so dung beetles roll them away, bury them, then lose interest. Free seed planting!
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
More Parrot Waxcaps are emerging through the leaf litter.

🍄🦜 #FungiFriends
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Think what Mr Onion is trying to say here is that Twitter is a malevolent fungus, it’s victims brain-bribed into behaving in bizarre and harmful ways.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Backlit by the sun this White Saddle had a soft glow. Looked a bit like bones amongst the brown autumn leaves.

🍄 #FungiFriends
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is basically how I emerge in the mornings, a bit wonky and covered in debris.

🍄 #FungiFriends
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Some lovely yellowy-orange #lichen
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Quite chuffed to see Parrot Waxcaps for the first time.

🍄 #FungiFriends

Quite chuffed to see Parrot Waxcaps for the first time.

🍄 #FungiFriends
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM