while I still consider myself a novice in many ways I think that the time I made a major mycological jump was when I stopped carrying field guides around with me - ornithological ones and mycological ones that is - I still carried the splendid old Collins wildflower guide by McLintock and Fitter (very poor plates by today's standards - but unparalleled descriptions)
I would record the fungi I had learnt and felt confident about identifying in the field and then would take everything else back home (when I say everything - I would force myself not to take more than half a dozen or so collections back - but
good collections where there were several specimens at different stages of development); for the birds I would make field notes
digital cameras make the recording of habitat, what something looks like in the field etc. so much more easy, but the danger is that with that ease you can become sloppy and don't really
look at a fungus - a sketchy drawing could teach you a lot in those days - maybe we have it a little too easy?
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