Lancashire Lad

Yes it was well met and quite funny plus I was expecting to see you even if you hadn't read your emails first - I just sort of felt that you would be around! Joan was whispering 'its him - it must be him - there won't be two with all that gear'!!!! You went on and had some good stuff. We more or less went down after the bolete, across and up and back along Spine Kop. I picked my mam up at just gone 5pm which was a bit naughty of me ...... I did photograph some porcelain but not had chance to sort thro them yet - I concentrated on the view pics I'd taken - full of memories from childhood!
Regards PAuline

Nice to bump into you today LL a pity neither of us had time to ramble and natter some more! I found the bolete ?erythropus? I need to look them all up and have a think - I'm so rusty! It was blueing and blackening but the red dots on the stipe were very obvious! Not seen one for years - so thanks for that! Don't hink any of my pics of it turned out - I couldn't get the light behind me without moving it a good way or climbing the banking - the latter isn't a good idea these days - I can get up but getting down is ungainly and very often a over t and one of these days I will break something - the camera or old bones or both!! See you sometime.
Regards Pauline

In reply to your comment on the Chicken image.try and find a stand of old prunus aviums, the woodland trust site should give some good locations in your area. Laetiporus loves ripping through stands of old cherry and I find loads where they exist.

Gosh, this is an awfully complicated site for a novice. I think I'm replying to Mike (Lancashire Lad) but not sure. If so, the intended use of Enchanters nightshade pic is in a forthcoming book (to be published by Whittet Books in the Spring) entitled 'Flowers in the Field' which is an introduction to field botany - something that seems never to have existed and which there seems to be quite a need for. The context is in discussing how to do an on-the-spot sketch of a plant, then showing the photograph to compare it with. Yours is a pic that shows every diagnostic character very clearly.

Regards

Faith Anstey

Hi Mike. Just a suggestion but if you have the time, a trip to Gisburn forest in North Lancashire is a fairly productive place for a fungi foray. It is a bit of a drive to get there but it usually comes up trumps with all sorts of goodies!

Hi Mike, thanks for comments on Bog Asphodel - you might not have seen my post on the outdoor thread 'yeoman hey reservoir' which was really about a look to find them in flower now on the moors here.

I'm surprised its new to you - but as a help, this is the right time now and they must be on the bolton/darwen moors or Bowland? If you look for boggy slacks, they are there or often at the side of tiny rivulets, coming off peat moorland - just so easy to see with the lovely yellow spikes sticking up, sometimes in profusion. Dont like disturbance much though.
If you want the location of mine, just let me know, but its a bit far to travel......?
And by the way, I was meaning to message you but dont have time on the PC - terrific fungi finds and shots recently, on top of your flowers. Cracking stuff.
Cheers
Ken

Big congratulations on the 2,000 posts, Sir - see http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...tml#post497833

Thanks for the info on uploading pictures. A technophobe like me needs all the help he can get!

Great Mike :-)

JUst seen your post saying you haven't seen Vipers Bugloss or Bee Orchid. I think Longton Brickcroft would be worth a visit. The bugloss grows around the pond on the left hand side. Bee Orchid is on the old tram bridge in Penwortham and its also on the dunes and in Cuerden Valley