With the first significant frost on Friday night and the arrival of pink feet geese, autumn has arrived. A walk round Wedholme Flow NNR confirmed this with the deer grass turning red and a few fungi appearing - it's been too dry for there to be much at the moment.
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| Pink feet above the moss.... |
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| Autumn. |
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| The larger fungi are bovine boletus, Suillus bovinus, which are found under pine trees. Next to them is a 'rosy spike' Gomphidius roseus, which is thought to be parasitic on the boletus and in a three way relationship of pine tree: bovine bolete and rosy spike. |
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| Looking across to Criffel. |
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| Looking back to Skiddaw. |
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| Black darter and poplar hawkmoth caterpillar. |
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