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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
Pink round fungus-like structures growing on rotten wood
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
blackler.bsky.social
This rotting log on a woodland floor is turning bright red in places.

Do any #FungiFriends know if a fungus is responsible?
Close up of a wet, rotting log with some green moss. Mostly black in colour some patches are red. Close up of a wet, rotting log with some green moss. Mostly black in colour some patches are red.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
blackler.bsky.social
A finger of Yellow Club in the rough grass.

🍄 #FungiFriends
The frame is filled with wet green grass, a yellow-orange fungus in the centre.
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
Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Caloboletus calopus agg., 2. Up right: Neoboletus erythropus (other names: Boletus erythropus, Neoboletus luridiformis), 3. Middle down: Hypholoma fasciculare. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French. Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Hymenopellis radicata (other names: Xerula radicata, Oudemansiella radicata), 2. Up right: Panus conchatus, 3. Middle down: Amanita rubescens. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French. Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Marasmius rotula agg., 2. Up right: Inosperma erubescens (other name: Inocybe erubescens), 3. Middle down: Russula cyanoxantha. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French. Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Crepidotus applanatus, 2. Up right: Fomitopsis pinicola, 3. Middle down: Phallus impudicus. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French.
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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Young Redlead Roundhead Leratiomyces ceres A huge Blue Roundhead Stropharia caerulea Stubble Rosegill Volvopluteus gloiocephalus Maroon Brittlegill Psathyrella bipellis, seemingly quite rare but with a very distinctive colour
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
blackler.bsky.social
Still a few little points of colour on the South Downs.

#WildflowerHour
Knapweed on a steep slope. Yellow flower in wet green grass. Devil’s Bit Scabious flower against green grassy background. Yellow Gorse flower.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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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
A young magpie standing on a door handle gazing into the house waiting for some food or a top up for the bath.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Standing on a bin and stepping on the horizon.

#BirdOfTheDay #StandingOnThings
A gull stood on the edge of a black bin. It has one raised foot that (if you ignore perspective!) looks like the gull is stepping on the horizon line.
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Bumped into these two Waxcaps. Even on an overcast day the colour is so intense.

🍄 #FungiFriends
Worm’s eye view of two bright red mushrooms with orangey stalks.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Found some Devil’s Fingers. A bit knackered but happy to see one in the wild.

🍄👹 #FungiFriends
Looking straight down at bright red arms of a fungus with spots of black goop.
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
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Near crow, far crow.

#Birds #Hove
Black crow perched on a yellow post, further back another crow perched on a lamp, all against a bright blue sky.
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Moss and mushrooms. Maybe Common Stump Brittlestems.

🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
A fallen tree branch covered in moss with a group of small brown mushrooms in autumn sunlight.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The lookout.

🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
A small mushroom growing from the ragged decaying end of a fallen tree trunk.
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
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A mighty Inkcap towering over the woodland floor.

🍄 #FungiFriends
A worm’s eye view of a Shaggy Inkcap. A mushroom with white stalk and black rimmed cap in woodland. Looking straight down at a mushroom cap. A welly boot next to a mushroom.
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Small mushroom, big tree.

🍄 #FungiFriends
A small white mushroom grows at the foot of a mature tree covered in moss.
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!
Pictures of the plant, the seeds, the Bontebok, an antelope that makes the real dung, and the dung beetle.
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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More Parrot Waxcaps are emerging through the leaf litter.

🍄🦜 #FungiFriends
A small mushroom with a green cap and yellow stalk surrounded by brown leaves.
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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
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Backlit by the sun this White Saddle had a soft glow. Looked a bit like bones amongst the brown autumn leaves.

🍄 #FungiFriends
Close-up of the opened and hollow stem of a White Saddle fungus.
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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This is basically how I emerge in the mornings, a bit wonky and covered in debris.

🍄 #FungiFriends
A mushroom with red cap and white stalk emerges from under brown leaf litter.
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Some lovely yellowy-orange #lichen
Close-up of a dead branch with yellow, orange lichen growing on it.
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Quite chuffed to see Parrot Waxcaps for the first time.

🍄 #FungiFriends

Quite chuffed to see Parrot Waxcaps for the first time.

🍄 #FungiFriends
Two yellow-green mushrooms growing in leaf litter.
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM