My first job was checking my spore prints. I brought a couple of mushrooms home yesterday for this purpose.
If you've not taken a spore print before, it's really easy - just cut the stalk off your mushroom and put it gills down on a piece of paper, cover with a bowl and leave it to drop its spores. I left mine for a couple of hours and got a nice print, then moved the same piece before I went to bed and in the morning had another good print. You might need black paper as well as white for this as some fungi have white spores.
I spent some time in the garden, in the sunshine, this morning listening to a buzzard calling as it circled overhead, watching flocks of goldfinches and long tailed tits and sitting next to the 'sparrow hedge' noting the quiet chirping and frequent movement within.
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| male house sparrow in a tree |
I noticed honeysuckle berries and a fresh new daisy (and some clover and other flowers too) and finally read my Wild Derbyshire magazine which arrived quite a few weeks ago, along with one from the BTO which arrived last week.
That spore print is impressive! I hate shrooms but this does look good!x
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