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Ranger James' Adler introduction to the common

© Colin Poyton

Previewing Surrey Wildlife Trust's new grazing centre

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Discussing a free-range Datura

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The remains of a giant puffball

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James performs a tentative, toe-based analysis

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Not dead birch leaves - but rather a gourmet's delight: a colony of chanterelle

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The Oblong-leaved Sundew Drosera intermedia is more localised in the South-east and slightly smaller than most common Round-leaved Sundew.  The inflorescences in this picture are only about an inch long, arising characteristically from the side of the rosettes, and are about to bloom.

© Mariko Parslow

Apion rubens gall, on Rumex acetosella caused by a rare weevil specific to Rumex acetosella, Sheep's Sorrel, producing swellings on leaves' midrib.  In this case the host plant was a little strange one, which did not quite key out to it, possibly a close hybrid or a garden cultivar of Sheep's Sorrel, in any case something close to it.

© Mariko Parslow

Brian's Masterclass

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Mushroom Man

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Now were smokin' - a puffball having been persuaded to relieve itself of a few spores

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Unusual for the area - a hoof fungus

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The Persil Puffball boy

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Dragonfly and Natural History, led by Don Tagg - 1 July '07 - Thursley Common

The board walk - recovering from being burnt in 2006

© Mariko Parslow

Abundant Rhizina undulata fungi near a line of Scots pine - Mariko says these fungi have a penchant for previously burnt areas

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Watching Wood Larks

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Plentiful Cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium - 7 July

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Supplemental Flower Walk - 15 June '07 - Molesey Heath

Having ascertained its rarity for the area, Mariko and Brian returned to Molesey five days later to photograph this Vicia bithynica Vetch

© Mariko Parslow

Brian has been recording at Molesey Heath for years - but not seen Vicia bithynica prior to this specimen

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Vicia bithynica

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The Group

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Investigations around a Horse radish patch

© Patricia Poyton

The ochre-coloured, Taphrina populina forming a gall on a Hybrid poplar leaf … and a friend

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A bee alighted on a native wild orchid … or is it?

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Goat beard seed-head

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A warbler-spotting interlude

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A growth on a willow

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Embarking on the sodden tree walk

© Mariko Parslow

Refuge from the deluge under a giant red oak

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Dick Alder and Brian Spooner revealing some of Oatlands' majestic tree specimens

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